In other news...

The most common password these days is no longer "password". It's "password1". At least on Myspace. Who says users haven't learned anything. (The second and third most common are "abc123" and "myspace1" respectively.)

The same article notes that a recent study of corporate employees shows their passwords to be better than they were 15 years ago, but not as good as Myspace users.

The day so far.

Today's walk wasn't as long as usual, nor as steep. I stayed home to catch up on errands and recording; by the time I got back from lunch with the flower_cat the sky looked distinctly threatening. But an hour later it seemed to be clearing, so I took a 40-minute or so walk around the neighborhood, figuring that the grid layout of the streets would let me cut it short if it started raining. I stayed dry, and I think pushed the pace enough to get a reasonable workout.

The main reason I stayed home was to get some work done toward my CD. So far I've had two sessions on "Guilty Pleasures". The first nearly nailed it, except for one crashingly awful wrong chord. The second was a total washout; I may end up keeping the original take, which was pretty good, rather than trying to put clean tracks over it.

I did manage to finish filling out the application for a sales tax account. I'll take it in tomorrow morning, since it's on the way back from taking the chaoswolf to work.

Idiots!

So, once again, the LJ design team screws up and chooses to ignore user protests.

While we will not be offering an option to switch back to the old version, I hope we can work together to make changes and improve what we now have. Please understand that we love you guys and admittedly, we sometimes do things without fully understanding what the community reaction will be.

In other words, "we screwed up, but we're not going to fix it because you experienced users aren't bringing in any advertising revenue compared to all those newbies who set up plus accounts."

Fortunately, there's a cure for this one:

   emacs -f lj-compose

(Install from the ljupdate home page).

(Cross-posted to fucksixapart.)

PSA: posting to friends groups with new update page

... only works if you have Javascript enabled. Yes, I'm reporting it as a bug. Only workarounds I can think of are to use a client or enable JS.

Update: 12-15 What breaks it is having JS turned off in a browser that normally supports it. Possibly also spoofing the user-agent in the headers.

Not a very productive day

Unfortunately, rather than record another take on "Guilty Pleasures", I ended up getting sucked in to another LJ design trainwreck, (more at the link) this one having to do with revisions to the "update journal" page. This is supposed to be the basic, last-resort, guaranteed-to-work way of updating your LJ. And they broke it. It's prettier now, but some features don't work if you don't have JavaScript enabled! I should know better than to get sucked in to one of these flamefests, but I seem to have been the first one to discover -- or at least to mention -- the Javascript problem. So I guess I've done something of value.

Looking at some of these designers' userpics you can see the problem: they're young. Inexperienced. Arrogant. They think they're hot stuff because they graduated from a program in "web design". Whee. They'll learn, eventually, but meanwhile they'll make life miserable for us old curmudgeons who don't count because we're not in LJ's target demographic.

I need to stop going off on these tangents, amusing though they are, and get some work done. Tomorrow: turn in my sales tax account application, and hack some more on TiddlyWiki. That, at least, will be fun.