“Hi, my name is jik, and I’m a password reuser.” “Hi, jik!” If there isn’t a “Password Reusers Anonymous”, there probably should be. By “password reuse,” I mean using the same password over and over on multiple Web sites. It’s a really bad idea, and I should know that better than most, since I’ve worked… Read More: Why I just spent three days changing my passwords on… »
My blog postings about the DMA (initial and followup) got picked up at The Consumerist and got over 5,200 views, which is a respectable take, but not nearly as good as when Continental lost my daughter :-). You will also find on The Consumerist a rebuttal from the DMA which doesn’t actually respond substantively to… Read More: More on the DMAchoice.org debacle »
(Simulblogged on universalhub.com.) Long-time readers of my blog know that I have been trying, for almost two years, to eliminate junk mail — the paper kind — from my mailbox. I’ve registered everyone in my family with the DMA’s MPS, tried out various Web sites that purport to help you stop junk mail, and most… Read More: Where all those Boston real-estate agents get your name and… »
Citizens Bank “upgraded” their online banking site over the past two weekends. This morning, when I attempted to log in, here’s what I experienced: 30 seconds to load the initial login page 72 seconds to load the identity verification page (i.e., “you’re using a computer without one of our cookies already in its browser cache,… Read More: Citizens Bank screws the pooch on weekend “upgrade” »
I was delighted to discover a few days ago that the problem with the MBTA’s on-line route data that I’ve been trying to get the T to fix for over six years and almost got arrested over is now fixed in Google Maps. Alas, it’s still wrong in the MBTA’s own Trip Planner. Go figure.
ZIP code fields that don’t accept the ZIP+4, or only accept it without the hyphen, or only accept it with the hyphen, or let you enter it and then tell you it’s invalid Credit-card number fields that don’t accept spaces or hyphens, or require spaces or hyphens, or tell you to enter the card number… Read More: Web site pet peeves »
In a recent issue of SANS NewsBites, the following item appeared as the headline story: TOP OF THE NEWS –One In Five Teenagers Claim to Have Used Hacking Tools (15th May 2009) A recent survey of 4,000 teenagers between the ages of 15 to 18 years of age states that 17% of those surveyed know… Read More: Computer security experts apparently are not statistics experts »
UPDATE (June 30, 2013): I no longer believe this review from 2009 to be an accurate representation of the quality of service provided by PayFlex. Please see my more recent posting for an explanation. Feel free to post comments there; comments on the review here have been disabled.
For users of my comics aggregator… When comics.com switched to their redesigned Web site, they started exporting much larger versions of their single-panel comics. This is annoying, so I’ve fixed the aggregator to notice comics from comics.com taller than 400 pixels and restrict their display height to 400 pixels.
Users of my comics aggregator might have noticed that it has been slow for the past few days and has had problems retrieving comics that are hosted at comics.com. It appears that comics.com rolled out a new version of their Web site over the weekend. After the rollout, it had problems, to say the least. … Read More: comics.com jumps the shark »