Perhaps we ought to have a sweepstake on when TVF's new software will be ready?
I predict, that by the time it is installed and being used:
- 623058 will be understandable to all;
- He will have his Blockbusters music or whatever it is he keep harping on about;
- Nick Harvey will be sitting at home listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1;
- Beep Beep Chubby will have a new job reading the national news headlines on BBC One;
- Tumble Tower will use the proper name for things instead of some cobbled together illogically logical system of abbreviation;
- Mark Grindon will change his username so I can read it without the aid of a mirror.
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I think it's most unlikely that the new software will ever be released for use.Jovis wrote:Perhaps we ought to have a sweepstake on when TVF's new software will be ready?
If it is, then the probability is that it will be so flakey and full of holes that it will either be withdrawn and reverted within a week, or TVF will simply close down for good in the chaos which results.
I know he doesn't like me saying this in public, but the problem is with Asa's attention to detail, or more exactly his total failure at any attention to detail.
All the evidence is there in the history. Almost every upgrade is about 85% okay, but 15% is a complete cock-up. The perception to the user is of things being rushed through for no reason, of a complete failure to bother with any thoughtful testing prior to release.
It's also a history of broken promises as regards upgrades. Nothing happens as was originally promised and all we get is the "I'm not your paid servant" response if we dare to complain.
I'm not paid to write Comment for the web, yet I've said a new one will appear at the beginning of every month and I will move heaven and earth, if necessary, to make sure I keep that promise every month.
Through the middle of 2004, when I knew I wasn't going to be well enough to write every month, I made sure I amended all the pages which referred to monthly updates to reflect the true situation at the time.
It only takes a very tiny bit of effort to only make promises which you are definitely going to keep, yet a failure in that tiny bit of effort can do permanent damage to your reputation.
Hence this post.
Well, exactly, if you say you will do something, you should do it as your visitors/members would expect - it's what is known as courtesy. If you don't, you take the blame and say you messed up. Doesn't matter if you get paid or not. I'm not even entirely sure what that has to do with anything.
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Mr Mercia once made a disparaging reference to him in the Midlands thread. To which he replied in large bold text: "I AIN'T BEEP CHUBBY".Andrew wrote:Out of interest, why do you call him BeepBeepChubby?
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I, personally, completely agree with you there.Jovis wrote:Doesn't matter if you get paid or not. I'm not even entirely sure what that has to do with anything.
My philosophy for the whole of life, the paid bits and the unpaid, is to do what you say you'll do and not do what you say you won't. That way people know where they stand with you. They might not like the answer, occasionally, when they ask you to do something and you say you haven't got the time.
Wrong! It was a signature with "tvmercia, Hymagumba I aint beeping chubby"James Hatts wrote:Mr Mercia once made a disparaging reference to him in the Midlands thread. To which he replied in large bold text: "I AIN'T BEEP CHUBBY".Andrew wrote:Out of interest, why do you call him BeepBeepChubby?
no it read "i aint beep chubby". and I'm quite sure I was before mercia on the list because I'm more important.Godfather wrote:Wrong! It was a signature with "tvmercia, Hymagumba I aint beeping chubby"
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It probably wasHymagumba wrote:no it read "i aint beep chubby". and I'm quite sure I was before mercia on the list because I'm more important.Godfather wrote:Wrong! It was a signature with "tvmercia, Hymagumba I aint beeping chubby"