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After reading a lot of stuff about the new LJ Invasion of Privacy feature, I went to my LJ account settings to look around. I clicked off the guest-tracking thing, saved my settings, and went back to reading my flist.

Within a few minutes, I had three emails from Match.com in the email account to which my LJ account sends notices, the first thanking me for signing up to get lots of dates, the second saying my application was under review, and the third sadly letting me know that my application was not accepted.

As an asexual 54 year old woman, I can only laugh at the idea of Match.com, but still. WTF?
darkemeralds: A round magical sigil of mysterious meaning, in bright colors with black outlines. A pen nib is suggested by the intersection of the cryptic forms. (Default)
It occurs to me that maybe Netflix's now three-day-old "shipping system failure" is a ploy to get me to use their "play now" streaming option.

Maybe I'm just paranoid. Is their shipping system failure a nationwide thing? Does everyone now have unprecedented empty spaces in their "at home" list?

Here's why I'm not interested in their "play now" option:

a) The required viewing software contains suspect DRM components that reportedly can mess with other digital media on your computer, however legally acquired.

b) I have this huge honkin' flatscreen TV because that's how big I want to see my movies. And I don't have a spare computer lying around to hook it up to, and if I did, it wouldn't have the remote control or the surround-sound system that my DVD player makes use of.

Yeah, yeah, I know physical DVDs are a thing of the past and I should just let them go. Virtual content--pay for it but don't own it! It's the new way!

Grrr...
darkemeralds: A round magical sigil of mysterious meaning, in bright colors with black outlines. A pen nib is suggested by the intersection of the cryptic forms. (Default)
Got home from work a little early today, starvin' hungry. While I was scarfing down some cappellini and mizithra cheese, I observed out my front window someone in a hard hat up on a high orange ladder, doing something in the wires right across the street.

He didn't LOOK like Big Brother. )

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