POSTS AND/OR COMMENTS MAY CONTAIN ADULT CONTENT - THIS IS SUFFICIENT WARNING TO ALL WHO CAN READ ENGLISH. Daily musings on what I told you or a co-worker but wished for better ways to say it - so, here it is in print.
Confidence? Damn right!
This blog is imbued with "ada-quada-quacity", strives to be most oxymoronic, and ultimately of high opinion!
Flock Breaks Up With FireFox and Goes Google (lockergnome.com) - actually, sort of, it is only a BETA at this point - not replacing the current update of Flock browser. Yet. "Goes Google" is a misnomer, as well. Really Flock is changing its engine to Chrome-like, dropping the Mozilla-born FireFox engine.
A cohort of mine sent an email to chess.com after some odd registration issues, inquiring why they consider the use of the '+' to be invalid.
Special characters are valid on the net on all mail servers, the + being one of the major ones in use today. By default, ALL mail programs allow use of the + and many other special characters.
The following is their response (note; no explanation as to why not the use of + and the ticket is closed, with no allowance for rebuttal)
The following is the chess.com response:
Julie Howells
to me
show details5:48 AM (14 hours ago)
xxxxxxx
I'm sorry, but we won't be using or allowing the use of + in email addresses.
The only special characters permitted are dash, underscore or dot. - Kohai Chess.com Support www.Chess.com
She apologizes that chess.com won't be following any web standards? Only those 3 characters? Even if the issue was that of using the email as username (not needed at chess.com, as you can sign in with your nickname), there would be no reason - security or otherwise - to disallow, by deliberate choice by the way, the use of any standard special character in emails. In fact, the disallowing of the + character is itself more of a security risk to the user of chess.com than ever chess.com servers. Using the + can actually prevent spam on servers, in both directions (as whatever comes after the plus is used as an effective spam mask - you know exactly where the original email would have come from)
Obviously, I don't need to say anymore here. As usual, I must defer to the wisdom of Steve Gibson at grc.com
About Adult Content: "Does anyone know who at Google Blogger I can contact about the following issue?
Now anytime someone visits my site, they get an adult content warning. I'm glad they get a warning, but I'm not pleased with the warning they get - a canned "Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog's content is objectionable."
Yeah, that someone was ME, the creator of the blog.
To have a message saying "readers have contacted Google because htey believe this blog's
content is objectionable" is just flat out lying. And there's such an
easy solution. Just change the warning to:
"The creator of this blog feels that some of the material may be innappropriate for people under the age of 18."
Blogger, do not stigmatize my blog with a message that lies; rather, enable me, the creator of the blog to state the case my self and show that I'm actually acting responsibly and choosing to call out
the content myself. I hope you will consider making this change. I think it is a reasonable one.
The Phantom" EDITED
I'm all for Sweden abolishing marriage, because marriage is for Pygmis!