Am I being singled out, or is there a new plague of AIM bots going around? I used to get prodded by these stupid things every couple of weeks, but I've blocked a dozen of them in the last week. This time it's usually a bot with "salmon" in its name.

Remember the good old days, when if you configured your web browser to remember cookies for a site forever, you wouldn't have to log in again all the fucking time? Gosh, those were the days. Before sites kept a useless shit-ton of server-side session state that they felt the need to constantly expire on you. Or before they decided to log you out every N days for "security" reasons.

Also remember when if you told your web browser to remember your user name and password for web sites, that worked? When people actually used HTTP authentication instead of crazy-assed bullshit involving JavaScript and Flash and turning off autocomplete, because they know better than you? Yeah. Those were the days.

Dear Interweb: fucking knock that shit off.

Dear people who leave yourselves logged in on instant messenger, but don't have your preferences set to mark you idle/away after 5 or 10 minutes of inactivity, so that it always looks like you're there when you're not:

Fucking knock that shit off.

Update: What she said.

That was a loooong one.
It was long but very gentle.
Very mild, but lasted a while.
Long, and gentle, but that's still the most violent one I've felt.
It seemed kinda long.
Hooray, I actually FELT that one!
First one I've felt in several years as well.
I've still yet to feel one.
How is that possible? Just in the past year we've had several that made me go WHOA -- at least two of them woke me from a dead sleep.
I give it a five.

My mail server was being wonky over the last few weeks, and was bouncing mail every now and then (depending on which server it happened to route through.) So if you wrote me recently and I didn't write back, please resend.

Yes, I know jwz.org expired. No, I am not receiving email.

Update: It's renewed, but I guess it'll take a while for DNS to sort itself out.
Update: Fixed (20-ish hours later...)

If you've been getting a whole bunch of spam in the last few days relayed from Livejournal's servers, it's because they decided to turn off all their damned spam filters. And call it a "feature". The fix for this is to completely disable your useless @livejournal.com email address. But this doesn't have a preferences checkbox, so it requires some Admin Console hoop-jumping. This won't affect comment emails.

Update: Ok, lisa says they didn't actually change anything about the filtering they do. But, I started getting relayed spam a few days ago that I never got before, and turning off the @livejournal.com address will presumably fix that, since I never used that address anyway.

File under "jwz@aol.com":   http://www.myspace.com/jwz.

As of earlier this month, there are more than 2048 LJ users who have me on their friends lists. That's two kilolosers. It is once again time for you to explain yourselves. Yeah, I'm talking to you:

1. Who are you and why?
2. Recommend some music that you think I would enjoy.

Post a comment with a fictional memory of you and me.

Oh no, it's meme-o-riffic!

I added tags to very nearly all of my journal entries. They're pretty arbitrary, obviously, but let me know if you notice anything blatantly wrong.

Since LJ has tags now, I've added a few to the most recent two pages of my posts. I've also turned on the option that lets anyone add new tags to my posts. So go forth, my army of flying monkeys, and tag my old posts! Let's see what categories you come up with.

Update, June 21: Ok, the experiment is over. Verdict: you are all incredibly lame.

Brad added a page that returns a list of images referenced in recent LiveJournal posts; to test this out, WebCollage is currently displaying only images from LJ. It looks to be a pretty good source so far!

There are now 1024 LJ users who have me on their friends lists. That's one kiloloser.

I think it's time for you to explain yourselves. Yeah, I'm talking to you.

Face-lift: a grid of random LiveJournal user icons.

Have I posted enough today? I don't know what happened; today has been media-rich after a long dry spell.

Anyway, you also may be interested to know that in the last few days I've added some new stuff here and here; these are all things that have made an appearance here on my LJ in the past year or so, but I've given them a bit of editing and a "real" home.

I expect the low-comprehension hate mail to start flowing once the knee-jerk apologists finally read my Burning Man rant from last year.