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Someone in the forum has fallen victim to the responsiveness of trouble tickets.

How in the heck do I get my money back? There's no cancel option anywhere. I've submitted 3 support tickets. I've called. Still, no one has contacted me and my account still shows that my upgrade is good through next year. How long does it take someone to get around to support tickets?

I'm not sure if he/she has received a responce, but seeing that there's no further discussion on the thread would mean that the issue have been resolved.

Usually, it's easier to get the admin's attention if it's brought to the forums. There are volunteery mods there who are keeping an eye on things and they get direct contact with the admins. (note: tips)

References: Plain Text Editor bugs, BlogDrive Disaster, Never Expect Replies from BlogDrive Trouble Ticket, BlogDrive Forum, How To Get A Reply From Blogdrive,
Tags: BlogDrive, Support Ticket, Trouble Ticket, Customer Services, Forum,

Tila Nguyen - who is she?

I receive a termendous amount of hits for this page: Tila Nguyen - but I have no idea who is she? And most of all why is she so popular that she brings so much traffic?

Anyway, over there at wikipedia they explained:

Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981 in Singapore), better known as Tila Tequila or simply Tila, is a Vietnamese American glamour model and singer who is most notable by her appearances in automotive import magazines and films, as well as her impact on the MySpace community. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Ooo la la! Well, what can I say?

Photobucket To Partner With Blogdrive

It hasn't been decided yet, but I know some users who use both BD and photobucket will be really happy with this partnership. I'm not sure about the rest though.

The partnership will benefit all users but there are certain points to ponder about:

1. Do we have to log in again while using photobucket?
2. Would this cause confusion (as discussed on the tagboard) to new users?
3. WIth more storage space for images, less people are likely to sign up for BD's subscription services, true or false?
4. Is Photobucket working hard to stay on the top, now that there are many competing services and blogging services which offers image hosting for free?

These are just discussions, whether or not it will work out we'll have to watch.

References: Main Tagboard, Photobucket,
Tags: Blogdrive, Photobucket, Image Hosting, Partnership,

BlogDrive Server Performance

GrabPERF is a blog performance monitoring website. Basically it checks the quality of responces from different blog servers. The shorter the time of responce, the better the service is. Click here for BlogDrive server performance history.

BlogDrive's server performance isn't too bad. Good Job I must say!

The "Page not found" issues are almost fixed now, I think. Check the GrabPERF website.

References: BlogDrive Disaster, GrabPERF BlogDrive,
Tags: GrabPERF, BlogDrive, Servers,

Greasemonkey PTE Fixer

Instead of moaning of the problem over and over again, Xr decided to write up a GreaseMonkey fixer for the BlogDrive PTE Posting Dates problem.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior.

If you uses Firefox and have the Greasemonkey installed on your computer, You may use this tool. Download the script here.

Below are the details, note the explanation: Blogdrives gives the time based on configured timezone. However, when creating a new entry, "Current" doesn't mean anything. In those cases, the hours are set to local time. Think about it if the machine from which you edit your blog is not set to the same timezone as your blog.

// Blogdrive PTE Fixer v 0.2.2
// Copyright (c) 2006, Xr
// Released under the GPL license
// http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
//
// This is a Greasemonkey script. if you don't have GM, go to
// http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
// GM is an extension for Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/)
//
// Known bugs :
// - Blogdrives gives the time based on configured timezone. However, when
// creating a new entry, "Current" doesn't mean anything. In those cases,
// the hours are set to local time. Think about it if the machine from which
// you edit your blog is not set to the same timezone as your blog.
//
// Version history :
// 0.2.2 : Fixed date systm where "09" would be interpreted as octal
// Fixed date showing GMT instead of local time.
// 0.2.1 : Title is not lost anymore
// 0.2 : Moved to a better way of getting input field, fields are now selected
// depending on posted date / current date
// 0.1 : Initial script
//
//
// ==UserScript==
// @name Blogdrive PTE Fixer
// @description Allows Plain Text Editor to correctly edit dates
// @namespace http://xr.i-jeuxvideo.com/?cat_id=progs
// @include http://www.blogdrive.com/manage/blog_entries*
// ==/UserScript==
// Get the invalid <input> field.

I have not tested it, but looking through the codes it appears to be doing it right since it's well organised and written. Try it out if you uses Greasemonkey.

References: Plain Text Editor (PTE) bugs and issues, Dates of Edited Posts, Can't Change My 'Publish Date', BlogDrive PTE Fixer, Greasemonkey,
Tags: BlogDrive, WYSIWYG, Editor, Firefox, Greasemonkey,