One of the advantages of being a near-geezer (still can’t accept it totally) is that you get to complain about trivial things. Or you think you do. So, thats what I’m going to to now-complain about the New London Day.
But before I do, let me observe that the Republicans and the media are all wrong trying to compare the Obama “scandals” to Watergate. The proper comparison is to the Lewinsky affair, which was preceded, as they like to forget, by years of investigation into Whitewater, which even the New York Times insisted on treating as a genuine scandal, though there was nothing there. The Republicans and the media are suffering from amnesia about that little affair, because they both came off looking far worse than Clinton. The present “scandals” don’t even involve Obama personally, particularly the IRS affair, about which I’d bet my hat he knew nothing.
But, on to the Day. Many moons ago I downloaded an Ipad app called “Pressreader” because the Day was allegedly available for download through that app to subscribers. It actually worked for a day or two, after which it refused to recognize me. It was such a lousy app that I saw no reason to pursue it.
So, imagine my surprise and satisfaction today when I got an email from the Day, inviting me to download their new standalone app. Which I did, and it looked very much like the Boston Globe app, which is quite good. I immediately tried to enter the username and password I used in Pressreader. I got an error message that said “System Error-too many authorizations”, which of course tells me absolutely nothing. Calls to the Day yielded voicemails. There were no instructions in the app about how one authorized an account or even created one. But there was a “Send us Feedback” button, which I pressed and my email program opened with an email pre-addressed to a person at the Day. I wrote about my problem and pressed send.
Now mind you. This app was just created. Here’s the response I got:
This email is no longer active.
Please contact The Day directly at 860.442.2200 and the receptionist will direct your call.Thank you!
Which brought me right back where I started.
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