Archive for the 'aggravation' Category

Flickr Old Skool

Published on 14 February 2007 in aggravation and flickr. 6 Comments

Am I the only so-called ‘Old Skool’ Flickr user who’s a bit peeved that we need to change our accounts - merge them with Yahoo accounts - so that we can use Flickr? Am I just being over-fussy about this or do any other Old Skool Flickr users feel the same?

For those who don’t use Flickr, the photo sharing site is requiring all its users to switch their user accounts from the old Flickr accounts over to Yahoo. (Flickr was bought out by Yahoo some time ago.)

I don’t understand why I am annoyed by this, given that I will happily create accounts for any new web-based services I am interested in. What’s the difference here? Am I just being a curmudgeon?

Spammers: you are a blight

Published on 21 January 2007 in aggravation and spam. 0 Comments

I’ve just turned comment moderation on because of the spammer who’s been thoughtfully adding links via comment over the weekend. This is very irritating, but I don’t like the other option, which is to make people register before they can comment.

I suppose the fact that this blog has escaped the notice of spammers for all this time has been too good to be true. Spammers, you are a blight on the Internet. May your fingers fall off!