Posts Tagged ‘customer service

Bank Offline Again

In: smp

17 Mar 2005

I use a major Northeastern US bank. Today is the second day in a row that they have effectively been unreachable through their Web interface.
From the customer service rep I talked to last night, I got the feeling they lost their backend and have had to re-build it from transaction and rollback logs.
And today, their [...]

How many times have you encountered this?
Too often? Well, I have encountered it too often. I rarely shop in person anymore, just because of this. If retailers don’t start to get it…well, you know.

Seth, who I am quoting way too often this week, has three great posts on finding a job. [here and here and here]
I am one of these people. I have a degree in History. I work in high-tech. I can write code when I want to. I can limp around linux, Windows and pretty much [...]

Matthew Homann of the [non-billable] hour has a link to a great read at Working Knowledge, a journal from the Harvard Business School. Titled Nail Customer Service, it reminds us that quantifying good customer service sometimes means stepping back and re-examining how you are trying to deliver it.
A good quick read with some great insights.

So, what is a geek to do when SiteMeter goes down? He writes his own tracking code and embeds it on his blog page!
Really simple PHP Code:
<?phpinclude([DATABASE CONNECTION INCLUDE]);$logtime = date("YmdHis");$ipquery = sprintf("%u",ip2long($REMOTE_ADDR));

if ($REMOTE_ADDR != [EXCLUDE SOME IPS]){        $query2 = "INSERT into logger.blog_log values ($logtime,$ipquery,’$HTTP_USER_AGENT’,'$HTTP_REFERER’)";        mysql_query($query2) or die("Log Insert Failed");     [...]


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