Want to try curbside recycling in Knoxville? Hope you don't own a Mac! [UPDATED]
Update 2: Well, it worked anyway. The form is still up and down, depending, but the error message I was getting appears to just be a glitch. I got 2 confirmation emails. Whoever implemented this needs to go back to school.
Update: I managed to GET to the form and went all the way through it... only to get an error message when I tried to exit. So apparently something is screwed up. Gotta love our gov't IT dept, eh? I'm going to keep trying, even if I wind up registering 80 times. This is ridiculous.
I've pasted the error above. Only government could make a simple sign-up form completely fail-tacular.
So I was super excited about curbside recycling coming to Knoxville! I was a little worried that only 20,000 people will initially be allowed to participate, so I followed a link from a friend to this page and read all about it. Huzzah! Except... when I went to sign up I was taken to a page that looks like it'll only be available to Internet Explorer users.
The page is actually a VPN page, that I have seen where I work. We use it to connect up to our private network (a sort of secure remote connection which allows you to appear as if you are on the local network -- for those of you unfamiliar with a "VPN"). So either someone at Knoxville's City website screwed up, or Firefox and Safari on a Mac are unsupported.
Why am I not surprised. I mean, Apple only has more cash in the bank than our entire state has credit, right? Why pander to the VERY PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS? Brilliant, Knoxville. For a moment I thought we were actually seeing progress.
Update: I managed to GET to the form and went all the way through it... only to get an error message when I tried to exit. So apparently something is screwed up. Gotta love our gov't IT dept, eh? I'm going to keep trying, even if I wind up registering 80 times. This is ridiculous.
I've pasted the error above. Only government could make a simple sign-up form completely fail-tacular.
So I was super excited about curbside recycling coming to Knoxville! I was a little worried that only 20,000 people will initially be allowed to participate, so I followed a link from a friend to this page and read all about it. Huzzah! Except... when I went to sign up I was taken to a page that looks like it'll only be available to Internet Explorer users.
The page is actually a VPN page, that I have seen where I work. We use it to connect up to our private network (a sort of secure remote connection which allows you to appear as if you are on the local network -- for those of you unfamiliar with a "VPN"). So either someone at Knoxville's City website screwed up, or Firefox and Safari on a Mac are unsupported.
Why am I not surprised. I mean, Apple only has more cash in the bank than our entire state has credit, right? Why pander to the VERY PEOPLE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS? Brilliant, Knoxville. For a moment I thought we were actually seeing progress.
posted by Victor Agreda, Jr. at
10:49 AM
1 Comments:
We do the curbside recycling and its pretty nice. We've been doing it since Earth day in 2009, when we signed up. I think they call it single stream recycling, since they mix paper and plastic in together. We pay something like $70 bucks every 3 months, but we get some kind of points based on how much weight we recycle (they have a gps device in our bin!) and we can use those points to get swag, like magazine subscriptions and giftcards.
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