Monday, April 09, 2007

H&R Block Needs to Hire My Brother-In-Law

I was just on H&R Block's website trying to download their "Taxcut" software so I could do my taxes. Yes. I procrastinate again. But that's not the point.

The point is that I tried to order and couldn't. Why? I discovered it was because they had a glitch in their site that didn't support the Firefox browser. I select product. Click. I enter all sorts of personal information. Click. Then I find a mostly blank page with no directions. What? I try again. Nothing. I try on my wife's computer. Nothing. Finally I try with internet explorer. It brings up a page asking my county in Arkansas. What are they thinking?!! I don't know about the web as a whole, but 39% of the traffic on my site comes from people using Firefox.

Anyways, that's bad. Not good. They should hire my brother-in-law.

There's a great application point in here for ministry, I'm sure. It's just not coming to me right now. Oh - I know - make sure that you don't put up barriers to a large group of the audience that you are trying to reach. Heheh. I wanted the software. I was willing to pay for the software. But I was forced to try FOUR times to acquire the software. Many others would have given up long before that. In the church, we need to make sure we aren't erecting unnecessary barriers between people and the truth of Christ as well.

There. How was that?

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