The Elusive Excogitation

Here we are again, at the cross roads of a security issue, born from a companies ill managed security provisions. My Guild wars account, that I haven’t logged into in over 5 months was hacked. The passwords changed and left your humble blogger unable to move forward. I would simply just say “whatever”, but we have sunk a lot of money into Guild wars over the years.

So, like any good consumer that hasn’t given out his password, and has actually added it to a keysafe, so he won’t forget it, I now must deal with support to get help back into my account, that I can only image has been stripped of it’s valuables. None the less, NCsoft asks for 4 bits of info….

Continue reading ‘NCsoft and Guild Wars…’

Learn from the best:  “The Yahoo! Style Guide Learn how to write and edit for a global audience through best practices from Yahoo! ” (look at page title!)

looks like Yahoo needs a spell checker, proof reader or perhaps a better style guide!

I learned something today. Something I guess I should have  known, but didn’t.  Now that the children are out of school, they are flocking to “World of Warcraft”. The chat in the game has filled with very un-appropriate chat, even worse than before. It’s like being around a bunch of 14yr old that should be in some sort of half-way home.

Example, I went today to get my in-game mail; to bad for me.

Continue reading ‘WoW; here come the kids…’

http://bit.ly/95AjtU – push for new laws in the US to kick people offline for file sharing. “to implement a three strikes plan to kick people offline after three accusations (not convictions) of copyright infringement.”

This is idiocy. If this is the way that the US RIAA and Labels want to go then, I say, “Get music away from me!” The cost of “telephone” is to high, the loss of the internet? No Madonna or Metallica or other mindless drones music is worth that kind of hit. So, no music. No iTunes, no Amazon music, nothing.

I want music to be removed from shopping centers and coffee shops, from sonic drive ins and all public places. With such a high punishment for illegal sharing  of music, willfully or accidentally, then music is like a loaded gun in the hands of a 4year old. End the noise, kill the marshal stack, get music away from me!

I have been boycotting music purchases and downloads of all kinds since 2001, now I boycott the medium, Now going 100% music free.