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Welcome to the Oddblog, where we prattle on incessantly about bug fixes, feature additions and all things Oddpost. Click "comments" to add your two cents, unless those two cents are a bug report or feature request, in which case we kindly request that you email bugs@oddpost.com or features@oddpost.com. Finally, note that if there are no announcements on a given day, it does in fact mean we were out blowing your subscriber dollars on handcrafted doilies and pink champagne.
| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
Hurry! You must consume more feeds! Others are consuming your feed, and you're consuming their feed, and you must keep up, lest you be the 3,427th lame-o to note that it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, and not the ultra-hip 781st! It is clearly our duty to facilitate this nonsense, so avast, up there in the File menu, OPML subscription import!
3:24:59 PM 
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Is there a clever, i.e., not stupid, way to explain that we fixed the bug where text in the Views Bar would disappear when you switched folders? Doesn't seem like it.
3:24:25 PM
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Ah, sweet mystery of life! A 10 or 15 line plaintext email from Monster.com weighs in at over 80K and takes minutes for Oddpost to load. Why? Because it's formatted using several thousand whitespace characters, of course. Nope, no newfangled carriage returns there! Just the sort of thing that can choke a regular expression, until said regexp is tweaked a bit. A Spring shower cools the seething horde. (Oh, it's September? You're neat.)
3:24:06 PM
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You're putting the finishing touches on an email as lengthy as it is brilliant when the shakes make an inopportune return, thrusting your cursor diagonally upwards until it comes to rest directly over the Close box, right at the exact moment your life partner decides to give your hand a reassuring squeeze. Or maybe you were just typing quickly and accidentally hit the Escape key. In either case, we now ask you whether you really want to close the window and lose all your work. We programmers call this device a "lifeboat."
3:23:22 PM
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Nothing makes a programmer want to run to the vessel's prow and scream "I'm king of the nerds!" like fixing a memory leak. In this case, a bug in IE was steadily bloating Oddpost's memory usage over the course of a day's use. Rob had nothing to do with this bug, but he is a Leo, so we shoved him overboard.
3:22:49 PM
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We made the brave decision that changing your password should never, ever lock you out of Oddpost, and made it so.
3:22:12 PM
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OK, leaks, pirates, lifeboats...the nautical theme is not intentional, yet here we are, telling you that links in emails to ANCHORS within that same email now work, meaning that the links in all those great newsletters you subscribe to jump straight to the right spot in the message. It's the little things.
3:21:17 PM
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