Archive for November 20th, 2007

We have been added to the Miro Guide

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

We have been added to the Miro Guide. That means if you open Miro and search for “Inkscape”, “Screencasters”, “Querin”, or “heathenx” (the tags that I used) you’ll find the screencasters.heathenx.org channel and you can subscribe to it. Additionally, we have added Miro subscription buttons to both our web site and our blog if you wish to use them.

Only two episodes, our last two, show up in Miro. Sorry for that but there is very little that can be done as I understand it. I blame Richard (<- that never gets old). Miro mirrors what is posted on our blog. That means if only two episodes are listed on our blog then only two episodes will be listed in Miro. At the time that our channel was set up only episodes 045 and 044 where listed. We have since changed our WordPress blog to display 30 posts rather than the default 10 to help with this in the future. As time goes by more episodes will be listed and probably a few will drop off.

Enjoy.

PayPal Issue Resolved

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Talk about an emotional roller coaster. I no more than blogged about removing the PayPal donation button last night when this morning I found that PayPal finally contacted us. Our problems have now been resolved and we’re back in business, so to speak.

For those of you with PayPal accounts you already know that their service is very weak. They are not quick to respond, no matter the size of the issue. It would be nice if they had some kind of online chat so that one could get to the bottom of an issue quickly. Maybe someday. Until then it’s wait a week until you’re contacted.

Anyway, we are back up again. The bottom line…I blame Richard. :)

PayPal. The Bane of My Existence.

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Well, it looks like our donations are on hold for a little while. PayPal is not being friendly to us. We are having some problems with our new account and since PayPal does NOT have any service to speak of we’re left with figuring stuff out on our own. Once we get the issues straightened out then we’ll add our donation button back to our website. We’re truly sorry. We are trying to be as professional as we can (yet maintain a sense of humor over the silly thing).

This whole thing reminds me of the movie Mr. Mom where toward the end Mr. Schooner from Schooner Tuna is shooting a commercial. He rambles on about lowering the cost of tuna temporarily. I remember hearing, “These are trying times…”, “We’re all in this together…”, and “Schooner Tuna, a tuna with a heart.” See? See how all of that correlates to PayPal?