Bloomin’ Zoomin!
Richard McManus links to a post on WellUrban today about Zoomin...the closest thing in New Zealand to Google Maps. My interest was tweaked because the writer alludes to the impending release of a Zoomin API...whoopee, that's great news.
And at the same time it reminds me of one of my pet peeves: web sites with a contact form, which apparently doesn't do anything. Case in point...I emailed the Zoomin folks a while back asking about an API and never heard a word back. Not a big deal I suppose, but how hard is it to respond to simple questions like that?
UPDATE: And now I have joined the NZ2.0 Google Group, which I think the Zoomin folks are in on too so they'll probably think I am a twat.
> how hard is it to respond to simple questions like that?
Considering the amount of other things they “have to do’, probably: “quite hard”. :-)
> so they’ll probably think I am a twat.
They shouldn’t, you just gave them real-world feedback on their customer service, or pointed out a problem with their system. Either of those things are valuable. I hope they noticed.
My $0.02…
P.S. Your security code is (sometimes) *really* hard to read–and appears to use easily confused characters. (Ok, I couldn’t read the first one at all (captured here: http://stuff.rancidbacon.com/misc/bad_security.tiff), the second one was clear as day.)
Cheers Phil…you’re right that captcha is often too hard to solve. I have been meaning to get around to trying another suggestion I had from a reader…must do it asap.