Category Archives: イライラ – the ‘what was he thinking?’ files

Learning Patience with an iPhone App

Having spent months planning and producing our iPhone app, it is kind of hard not to take non-constructive negative reviews personally. I know it is stupid and unbecoming of me, but it’s hard. There have been a few two or … Continue reading

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A Public Service Announcement

I just got an email sent through the comments section of our store. AM MR SCOTT SMITH I WILL LIKE TO MAKE AND ORDER FOR SOME ITEM IN YOUR STORE SO I WANT TO KNOW THE TOTAL COST OF THE … Continue reading

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Moving Update (theJapanesePage.com)

 I posted this at TJP.  The scheduled move to the new server failed, but this may have been a good thing: – The moving failure may have been a blessing in disguise. Two times yesterday the server was unresponsive.  I … Continue reading

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How NOT to Ask for a Link

I get a lot of link requests by email for TheJapanesePage.com. The sad thing is 99% of the email requests are spam – or I consider it spam since they are obviously automated and impersonal. I’ll explain below but here … Continue reading

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Sweet Tea

I like my coffee black. ブラックだけでいい。 …And for as long as I can remember I like my tea unsweetened. I know most Americans disagree with me on that since you absolutely cannot find an unsweetened tea in a convenience store … Continue reading

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Wow. Another fraudulent order

Today must be my lucky day. Having a business on the Internet always attracts the scammers, but we rarely have trouble since our Authorize.net account filters out all the obvious troublemakers. However when credit card information is stolen from databases … Continue reading

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USPS

I don’t have a complaint, really, but I thought this would go well with the new イライラ category. I had a customer from Chile email me a few weeks ago saying the order he ordered in early December hadn’t yet … Continue reading

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Attack of the Nigerians… again.

In real life, I have met a few people from Nigeria. They were all very nice. But on the net, I have yet to come in contact with one who isn’t trying to cheat me out of life and limb. … Continue reading

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