Category: Reports

I was using WordPress plugin that is supposed to email subscribers whenever there is a new post on the site.

Unfortunately when doing some maintenance, I have been informed it has gone haywire and has sent out multiple emails to everyone of historical posts. I have since confirmed this.

This is not intended nor desirable behaviour.

I have deleted the email to subscriber plugin and have attempted to stop the emails. I have also entirely eliminated the email database that goes with this plugin. When I say I won’t be selling your email address, I really mean it!

I suggest those still interested in reading new posts to utilize the RSS feeds (https://divestor.com/?feed=rss2).

I apologize for the mass mails that were sent out. Sorry about that.

A few days ago, TSX Money has changed their website interface (in my opinion the change is awful for desktop users compared to the previous version). Before it used to be my go-to to get a quick quotation or the most recent news, but now everything is so spaced out and shows a lot more irrelevant information that I’m looking for alternatives. Why do providers always mess up a good thing? You get what you pay for I guess!

The best example of non-changing interfaces with incremental improvement are sites like Craigslist or Secinfo. They know major interface changes turn off users.

In regards to the TSX Debenture sheet I maintained, it broke the quote retrieval system I was using. Previously, the code to recover near real-time quotes was kindly provided by a user of the sheet which I was more than happy to implement (it involved importing the data from the TMX website). My first attempt to this weekend to re-establish this (realize that my mad hacking skills are about 20 years out of date) consumed a couple hours of time with little headway. I’m guessing one of you out there is smart enough to give me a proper =importxml(…) routine that will magically work.

Thank you.

(Update: A very, very, very intelligent person from Japan (you know who you are…) was kind enough to render assistance on this. Things look to be operational again, but we’ll find out when the market opens again on Tuesday!)