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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Blog Feed Recent Items Blog Template Unification: Template Trickiness OOXML Implementation: Can Expectations Ever Trump ... February Frights Redux: Unification for Creative D... Worst Nightmare: OpenDocument Format Embraced-Exte... Abstraction: Einstein on Mathematics+Theory+Realit... Document-Security Theater: When the Key is More Va... The February Frights Begin Microsoft Office 2010 Coming to Our House 2010: You Say Two Thousand Ten, I Say Twenty Ten Annual Dusting and Cleaning The nfoCentrale Blog Conclave Millennia Antica: The Kiln Sitter's Diary nfoWorks: Pursuing Harmony Numbering Peano Orcmid's Lair Orcmid's Live Hideout Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Spanner Wingnut's Muddleware Lab (experimental) nfoCentrale Associated Sites DMA: The Document Management Alliance DMware: Document Management Interoperability Exchange Millennia Antica Pottery The Miser Project nfoCentrale: the Anchor Site nfoWare: Information Processing Technology nfoWorks: Tools for Document Interoperability NuovoDoc: Design for Document System Interoperability ODMA Interoperability Exchange Orcmid's Lair TROST: Open-System Trustworthiness	2010-04-08 Don’t You Just Hate It When … … You visit a site, create a comment, and You are asked to log in and you have no idea that you have a password for the particular site. … You attempt to register at a site, and They tell you that your e-mail is already registered with them because they are part of a conglomeration of sites none of which you recognize at all and/or have saved a password and account entry for in your password safe. … They prefill a form with your user name or e-mail address But it is because you created an account on some other blog of the same service but you filed the password under the name of that other place, having no idea you were registering for wordpress or typepad all over the galaxy and actually had no intention of doing so and you don’t remember what that other place was anyhow … They will take an OpenId But you have to explicitly register an account anyhow, and your already-filled comment form is lost in the process. … They insist on inviting your automatic Disqus logon if the cookie is spotted But then you have to disable the indiscriminate e-mail river of Disqus commentary because it drowns your inbox and so, tell me again, why did I want to use Disqus? … You can’t find your password and you seek their help Only they clearly send you what must have been your original password in a plaintext e-mail. This situation makes me very happy that I use a random-password generator for every new account, so that the password protects only that one logon and nothing else. I am unwilling to have the key be more valuable than the lock. You may notice that I have stopped using Technorati tags, since they seem to have no effect whatsoever and I haven’t figured out how to have them make a difference with any alternative source of tags. I should figure out de.licio.us, I suppose, except in that case I should first figure out why my de.licio.us feed has stopped. I also use categories, well no … I use Blogger Labels which are sort of like categories except it is hard to find out what they are and place a current list and links on my sidebar. Blogger backlinks and Blogger labels remind me of the propensity of some Microsoft developer types to do-it-their-way when there is already an established practice out there. Yes, developers just want to have fun. But inflicting their NIH syndrome on the rest of us is not OK. Go do that in the privacy of your own home, please. For the labels, I think I will periodically post a message that simply goes into every category I have used (Windows Live Writer knows what they are), so I can remind myself not to make up more and maybe even prune the list where I tend to always use multiple labels in combination. Aren’t you happy that I have spiffed up this blog to the point that it serves as an invitation to my regular blogging on whatever strikes my fancy in the moment? Just wait, there are five more blogs and I have a great deal of pent-up blogging from my 18 months nose-down in document-standards work. Labels: confirmable experience, software usability, system incoherence, trustworthiness ¶ posted by orcmid at 4/08/2010 09:47:00 AM Create a Link - Post a Comment - <$BlogBacklinkTitle$> <$BlogBacklinkSnippet$> posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> at <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$>