[tw] : Bonsues! (Bonusses? Boni?)

“ Bonsues! (Bonusses? Boni?)”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	Top of Thread.
Date Posted:	Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:31:13 PM	Replies:	2

Enclosures:	None.

Back at the very end of November Macrobyte picked up a new client. The initial project was very, very small (like, $200).

However, he liked the work so well that he sent me a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate as a "bonus", with which I bought Corinne a cookbook and hard cover novel. Also bought myself the soundtrack to Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Today I (mostly) finished up a second project for him. This one was a little bigger, and he sent me another bonus! This time he bough me a license to the MacOSX version of Radio. He knows I don't have OS X yet, so he bought that for me, too!

Very cool. Macrobyte turns ten years old this month, and in all that time I've never had a bonus from a customer. (Art Christianson did offer me one of his bizarre paper weights once, I think. Does that count? Oh, and I found my wife at RR Donnelley... maybe that should count too.)

Wait, there's more! Here's a note he sent before telling me about the first bonus:

Perfect. Abolutely perfect. Exactly what I had in mind.

I can't wait for other people to use it, too.

Please consider me a (very enthusiastic) references for future work if needed.

Thanks Clark. I've always been a sucker for a kind word (big time), and there's nothing better than praise from a customer who's already paid you.

:-)

Discussion Thread:

Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/18/2002)

Yesterday I linked to Clark's Conversant site. He's still learning Conversant, but he really understands
- Re: Clark's URL (by Duncan Smeed at 1/18/2002)
  
  [snip] > >Keep plugging away with Conversant, Clark! It won't be long before >you'll be surprising
  - RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
    
    On 1/18/2002 at 8:07 PM, Duncan Smeed wrote: >It must be frustrating for you Seth to see so much >hype
    - RE: Clark's URL (by Duncan Smeed at 1/18/2002)
      
      > >On 1/18/2002 at 8:07 PM, Duncan Smeed wrote: > >>It must be frustrating for you Seth
      - Re: Radio (by Seth Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
        
        On 1/18/2002 at 8:36 PM, Duncan Smeed wrote: >In fact, I think I will be 'turning off' my radio,userland.com
      - RE: Clark's URL (by Brian Andresen at 1/18/2002)
        
        On 1/18/2002 5:36 PM, Duncan Smeed <duncan@smeed.org> wrote: >I wish I could afford to hore
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
        
        On 1/18/2002 at 9:26 PM, Brian Andresen wrote: >>I wish I could afford to hore you to implement them
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Corinne Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
        
        On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:34:52 -0500, Seth Dillingham wrote: >I don't think Corinne would approve,
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
        
        On 1/18/2002 at 9:44 PM, Corinne Dillingham wrote: >>I don't think Corinne would approve, at all. >
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Brian Andresen at 1/19/2002)
        
        On 1/18/2002 6:34 PM, Seth Dillingham <seth@macrobyte.net> wrote: >Brian, how long did you
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Duncan Smeed at 1/18/2002)
        
        >http://www.truerwords.net/1493 >-------------------------------------------------- > >On
    - RE: Clark's URL (by Duncan Smeed at 1/18/2002)
      
      >[snip I should be in bed - it's 2:32am here in Scotland! But I can't sleep with so many cool ideas
      - RE: Clark's URL (by Clark Venable at 1/18/2002)
        
        Duncan, As a Manila user (discuss.hmc.psu.edu), I really like the idea of a pre-done reception weblog
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/18/2002)
        
        dvice to a newbie I'd say, take it one piece at a time. Except for the preferences section, each area
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Corinne Dillingham at 1/18/2002)
        
        On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:31:58 -0500, Mark Morgan wrote: > What more could a man want? (Well, Seth
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/18/2002)
        
        Conversant's admin system is not so much more complex, as it's feature-rich. Clark, I sympathize with
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/18/2002)
        
        dvice to a newbie I'd say, take it one piece at a time. Except for the preferences section, each area
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/18/2002)
        
        Wow did Yahoo! not muck this up! What gives with all the versions, I wonder?
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Brian Carnell at 1/18/2002)
        
        At 10:41 PM 1/18/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Wow did Yahoo! not muck this up! What gives with all the
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Clark Venable at 1/19/2002)
        
        In talking to Seth about some shortcomings of Manila (and if it was possible to code around them), it
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
        
        This is probably better handled at Becoming Conversant, but if you find you need something like a template
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Greg Pierce at 1/19/2002)
        
        I'm getting a bit concerned about what this thread says about people who use Conversant. Yes, we all
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Brian Carnell at 1/19/2002)
        
        At 08:17 AM 1/19/2002 -0500, Greg Pierce wrote: >Yes, we all seem helpful and involve...but don't
      - RE: Clark's URL (by Brian Carnell at 1/18/2002)
        
        At 09:32 PM 1/18/2002 -0500, Duncan wrote: >We know that one of the steepest learning curves for
  - RE: Clark's URL (by Greg Pierce at 1/18/2002)
    
    On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:07:17 -0500, Duncan Smeed wrote: >>Keep plugging away with Conversant,
- Re: Clark's URL (by Brian Carnell at 1/18/2002)
  
  At 06:28 PM 1/18/2002 -0500, Seth wrote: >Keep plugging away with Conversant, Clark! It won't be
- Re: Clark's URL (by Philippe Martin at 1/19/2002)
  
  At 18:28 -0500 18/01/02, Seth wrote: >Keep plugging away with Conversant, Clark! It won't be long
  - RE: Conversant & Flip (by Seth Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
    
    On 1/19/2002 at 10:17 AM, Philippe Martin wrote: >And you know what? From the admin's point of view,
    - RE: Conversant & Flip (by Philippe Martin at 1/19/2002)
      
      At 10:38 -0500 19/01/02, Seth Dillingham wrote: >That's the scalability factor, but rather than server-load
  - Re: Clark's URL (by Clark Venable at 1/19/2002)
    
    Oh, I'm sure that's the case. For example, there's some content that I don't even want people outside
    - Re: Clark's URL (by Jim Roepcke at 1/19/2002)
      
      On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 07:39 AM, Clark Venable wrote: > Oh, I'm sure that's the case.
      - RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
        
        On 1/19/2002 at 1:47 PM, Jim Roepcke wrote: >That's why I'm using Conversant. I'm not using all the
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
        
        hassle. hassle. hassle.
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Jim Roepcke at 1/19/2002)
        
        / /----- /----- +----- / +------+ +----+ ----- \----- +-- / \-----/ -----/ +---- +----- On
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Jim Roepcke at 1/19/2002)
        
        BUG! It munched my backslahes! Jim
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Jim Roepcke at 1/19/2002)
        
        msgBody = msgBody.replace("backslahes", "backslashes"); Jim
      - Re: Clark's URL (by Clark Venable at 1/19/2002)
        
        Jim, It's a small world. I'm going through your WebObjects book right now. So, my technology list of
  - Re: Clark's URL (by Bill Kearney at 1/19/2002)
    
    An explanation, perhaps, is that Macrobyte is interested in the revenue that comes from satisfied customers.
    - Re: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
      
      Agreed. One of the reasons I moved to Conversant is the professionalism of the people involved. When
      - RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
        
        On 1/19/2002 at 1:05 PM, Mark Morgan wrote: >Seth wrote a very polite response. He was always very nice,
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
        
        http://www.voicesofunreason.com/fullthread$75#VU75 for those of you playing the home game.
      - Re: Clark's URL (by Bill Kearney at 1/19/2002)
        
        > Agreed. One of the reasons I moved to Conversant is the professionalism of the people involved. >
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
        
        Now, having finally gotten completely offtopic, I'll finish by saying I think the real reason Seth is
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Mark Morgan at 1/19/2002)
        
        Addendum: and Bill, you should at least try Conversant. Good grief man, it's free! Even I can afford
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
        
        On 1/19/2002 at 2:46 PM, Mark Morgan wrote: >Addendum: and Bill, you should at least try Conversant.
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Corinne Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
        
        On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:54:43 -0500, Seth Dillingham wrote: >Unless he's so po' he can't even pay
        
        Re: Clark's URL (by Bill Kearney at 1/20/2002)
        
        I've tried it and I think it's great. I don't use it now mainly because I don't want yet another ting
        
        RE: Clark's URL (by Seth Dillingham at 1/19/2002)
        
        On 1/19/2002 at 2:31 PM, Bill Kearney wrote: >Seth does an *excellent* job of handling requests. I've
- Re: Clark's URL (by Sean McMains at 1/20/2002)
  
  Hi Clark, I just wanted to add my meager voice to the chorus singing Conversant's praise. There are
Where's My OSX!? Oh, er... (by Seth Dillingham at 2/2/2002)

I mentioned a few weeks ago that a customer ordered a copy of Mac OSX for me, as a bonus for some work
- That was Easy (by Seth Dillingham at 2/2/2002)
  
  This was much easier than I expected it to be. Except for the fact that my Kensington TurboBall doesn't
  - Re: That was Easy (by Clark Venable at 2/2/2002)
    
    If you're into 'pretty', go look at OmniWeb as a web browser: http://www.omnigroup.com/. Its only downside
    - RE: That was Easy (by Seth Dillingham at 2/2/2002)
      
      On 2/2/02, Clark Venable said: >If you're into 'pretty', go look at OmniWeb as a web browser: >http://www.omnigroup.com/.
      - RE: That was Easy (by Mark Morgan at 2/3/2002)
        
        > > >Enjoy! You deserve to have fun at the computer! That should be the new Conversant tagline!
      - Re: That was Easy (by Clark Venable at 2/3/2002)
        
        OmniWeb is great of spelling-impaired writers like me. Since it's a Cocoa app, it spell checks in a
        
        RE: That was Easy (by Seth Dillingham at 2/3/2002)
        
        On 2/2/02, Clark Venable said: >OmniWeb is great of spelling-impaired writers like me. Since it's a
        
        RE: That was Easy (by Clark Venable at 2/3/2002)
        
        Your, sir, are a funny, funny, man.
  - In Fact, It was So Easy... (by Seth Dillingham at 2/2/2002)
    
    Corinne came home from a cat show in Southbury, CT, today (she was only gone last night). Anyway, it
  - Going for the Gusto (by Seth Dillingham at 2/3/2002)
    
    Okay, I went for the gusto and have completely erased my PowerBook in favor of a virgin installation
    - Re: Going for the Gusto (by Greg Pierce at 2/3/2002)
      
      On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 20:14:23 -0500, Seth Dillingham wrote: >Okay, I went for the gusto and have completely
      - RE: Going for the Gusto (by Seth Dillingham at 2/3/2002)
        
        On 2/3/02, Greg Pierce said: >I'm liking OS X better and better the more I use it...but they >definitely
        
        Re: Going for the Gusto (by Clark Venable at 2/3/2002)
        
        You must have plenty of RAM. Clark
        
        RE: Going for the Gusto (by Seth Dillingham at 2/4/2002)
        
        On 2/3/02, Clark Venable said: >You must have plenty of RAM. 192 in the PowerBook, 768 in the G4.
    - Re: Going for the Gusto (by Duncan Smeed at 2/4/2002)
      
      Hi Seth, Welcome to the world of OS X. Since I made the switch a couple of weeks ago I have had no regrets
      - RE: Going for the Gusto (by Seth Dillingham at 2/4/2002)
        
        On 2/4/02, Duncan Smeed said: >Alas, the latest beta of Eudora for OS X still crashes regularly - >less
        
        Re: Going for the Gusto (by Clark Venable at 2/4/2002)
        
        Seth, Can you detail how to do that (get the nightly build and install it)? Obviously, you've already
        
        RE: Going for the Gusto (by Greg Pierce at 2/4/2002)
        
        On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:02:41 -0500, Clark Venable wrote: >Can you detail how to do that (get the
        
        RE: Going for the Gusto (by Seth Dillingham at 2/4/2002)
        
        On 2/4/02, Clark Venable said: >Can you detail how to do that (get the nightly build and install >it)?
        
        Re: Going for the Gusto (by Clark Venable at 2/4/2002)
        
        No. I believe that one day I will be able to give an anesthetic entirely via the web browser and that
        
        RE: Going for the Gusto (by Greg Pierce at 2/4/2002)
        
        On Mon, 04 Feb 2002 12:26:57 -0500, Clark Venable wrote: >No. I believe that one day I will be
      - RE: Going for the Gusto (by Philippe Martin at 2/4/2002)
        
        At 09:56 -0500 04/02/02, Duncan Smeed wrote: [snip] >Alas, the latest beta of Eudora for OS X still

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