Hey, STL users.

The 21st of June is the solstice, which means the beginning of Summer for us here in the Northern hemisphere. (For our Aussie friends and others south of the equator, it's the beginning of Winter.) I thought it would be a good time to do a week-long Twitter-based STL walking challenge. Use STL to track and tweet your steps for a week, and I'll tally them up. The person with the most steps for the seven day period wins.

Here are the rules:

• Have a public Twitter timeline

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After a week of going round and round with Apple tech support, StepTrakLite is back in the App Store. No explanation of what was wrong, just a brief note saying they fixed it.

Hah! I'm thrilled. This was extended and incredibly frustrating, but at least its fixed.

Well, it's been over a week now. I've been going around and around with Apple support folks on a daily basis, and STL is still not back in the App Store. This has nothing to do with censorship, iPhone OS 3.0, or anything else that would make good sense. The itunesconnect portal says I need to execute an agreement, but the apple developer portal says I already have and won't give me the opportunity to do it again. And nobody seems to know what to do about this.

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Hey, STL users.

Just to let you know -- we found out today that Apple has yanked STL due to some kind of bureaucratic screwup relating to the customer agreement. (They say we need to accept the latest version, but when I try to it tells me we already have.) This came to my attention this morning and I'm still working on getting it sorted out. More soon, hopefully.

There are currently 201 members of our StepTrakLite community. Here are a few stats:

• The average stated member age is 37.9 years old. The youngest is 14, and the oldest is 68.


• 90 of our members say they are women, 92 say they are men and the remainder... well, they didn't say


• The first member (me) joined on October 22, 2008. The two most recent members joined today.


• Of those of you who told us what social networks you use, here are the numbers:
  
  
  1. Faceboo
  
  
  
  

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