Some of you may have noticed that my beloved Thriftee Alert system’s AIM/SMS bot had a terrible time staying up and active. This kinda sucked and made the whole thing sorta useless. Never fear, I’ve spent some time further hacking together a system that should fail-safe and trigger the script repeatedly. I had it doing this before, but it was leaving zombie processes on the server and it would eventually fail. Nevertheless, it now cleans those up as it goes and the end result is that the AIM/SMS notices should now ALWAYS go out, no excuses.

Should something fail in an epic manner while I’m on vacation (from 4/25-5/13), just go ahead and unsubscribe using the manage option on the page. If you email me to unsubscribe, that won’t get you anywhere.

If you haven’t set up a Thriftee notifier account, head over to the Notify Me page and get cracking. I’ve hammered out all the bugs I’ve found and I’m pretty confident it should just work from here on out, so long as my computer stays online and internet-happy.

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