Published in General on Monday, October 9th, 2006
It seems that I have access to an advanced version of Basecamp that dishes out attitude along with it's Milestone reminders.
While checking for some loose ends and filtering through the To-Dos in Basecamp today, I was dished the following bit of attitude from the previously-always-friendly project management app:
I imagine that this wouldn't have been a big deal if my wife wasn't sitting beside me snickering under her breath at what was on the screen...
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Comments and Feedback
Sorry, but I have to leave a comment and tell you how funny that was to read in my reader. I've seen that message before as well, but never thought of it that way, and my wife would too be snickering about it. Good stuff.
Glad I'm not the only one it trash talks :-)
Nice 'pink for October' on your site, btw. Better get my act together and get some pink on here too!
As though the to-do lists store all of your responsibilities! How presumptive; indeed how insulting. A pox upon Basecamp default messages.