18 August 2006

Just cause

I tried to log in the other day, just to play with my profile and such, but couldn't remember my Blogger.com username! I gave up, because I wasn't that motivated.
But it kept bugging me, and bugging me, so I found myself thinking about it this morning. Obsessing, really. I kept asking myself which names I had tried, and what it could possibly be. Then I checked my sister's blog (It's pretty good, check it out: [warning! dropped name, dropped name!] notesfrombedlam.blogspot.com ), and decided I wanted to respond to her latest post. Actually, I was hoping that where my computer had failed me before, this time it might actually already have my username in place. Nope. It had been long enough since I'd last logged in that there was no trace of the username in my internet history files. That seems rather irresponsible of someone in my position, but hey, I've got an image to maintain that this isn't really a blog!
Anywhen, I tried a couple of them to no avail (probably the ones I had tried the other day. Whattaya know? They still didn't work. I finally remembered that I might have been unimaginative enough to use my Yahoo ID name. Yup. I was. For my own future reference, my username is "jmskinny", but I'm not worried about this coming back to bite me. You have to have the kind of identity worth stealing for anyone to actually go to the effort of stealing it. I imagine that there have been a few attempts on my identity, but the hackers got one look at what they were getting, and decide to slither off to more fertile climes.
I will also take this moment to mention my new favorite guilty pleasure: Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com). Most of the time, the questions are stupid, inflammatory, or someone trying to get people to help them with their homework. I typically avoid the Religion and Philosophy sections, as well as some of the political areas. I enjoy the Math and Science, Comics and Animation, Trivia, Cooking, and Food and Dining sections. Since I noticed that my profile has had five more hits in the past week, (let me first say "Hi!" to my new fans :) ) I will just ask any of you who happen upon this, to check out Yahoo! Answers, look up 'jmskinny' and try to vote for any of my answers that are up for vote. I'm more than happy to give any tip-offs to which ones they are, since they remove the user ID of the answerers for voting.
Anywhy, I think I may start including some of my favorite questions, and my answers here. Elaborating on them, and such. I've got a few 'Best Answers' that I'm pretty pleased with, because the asker of the question liked it, not because the citizenry of Yahoo! Answers liked it best.