password gripe

[ritaxis]

Why do passwords sometimes just go rotten? You know, you've had the same password for some stupid Internet function for ever and ever and suddenly the site won't let you use it any more and every attempt to recover or re-register fails in a flurry of contemptous and inscrutable error messages? And why does EA have its Sims 2 website set up so that in order to ask for help in registering your game you have to have registered it already and if you once signed up with the Sims 1 site you can neither use the username and password of the Sims 1 site nor can you sign up brand new because there's an old account with your name on it?

And why do they not have a contact address that you can access without a password? (I know, I already said that)

Pfoo.

On other fronts, I have been writing, but there's not much to show for it at the moment.

And it's been a year. With not a word.

And I'm doing the same thing to somebody but only until tomorrow, I swear.

On still other fronts, more than three hundred twenty people have made it to the index of The Donor. There's a little email link on it and people could say something about it if they felt like it.

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Bit rot. Y'know, entropy at work.

Never can tell...your novel might be read by some dumbass intern, oh, any day now.

passwords

[(Anonymous)]

passwords are words and hence are unreliable. They have their sordid past, their allegiances, biases. They ultimately cannot be trusted.

trust your wordsmith friend, Glen

Re: passwords

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to wonder if -- since it happened to two places I use rarely, within a month -- the fault doesn't lie somewhere with my own self: browser, maybe.

Glen! So nice to see you here!