Palegoldenrod

So I am in sunny Sydney for the week (with work). The hotel I am at has interwebs (I am on it now) but their rates are ridiculous so its not likely that I’ll be posting much for a few days.

Let me briefly leave you some rant excerpts, for later:
Firstly, thanks to Flickr for selling out to Yahoo, who have just disabled my Yahoo account (so no flickr access) because I didn’t access my Yahoo Mail for a while. Note that I don’t actually consume Yahoo mail services. To complicate the issue: it took me ages to get into such a state (via logins, help and password request screens) before the system actually told me it was deactived; it took me 4 emails to support (replying) to get them to answer me with instructions on how I could get into my Yahoo ID again (grrr); when following their instructions I need my password, which I either can’t remember OR their instructions are wrong. So, now I am stuck between my damn stinky Yahoo account being locked (so I can just upload some pics to Flickr, for gods sake) and not being able to unlock it thanks to both limited Yahoo meanness and an incompetent and/or uncaring help desk. sigh. I’ll look into it further when I get home.

Secondly, thanks to the hotel I am at for charging for web access by the minute. Nice work.

Thirdly, thanks to the universe for sending me to a place without good interwebs the day after I topped up my WoW subscription. I can almost hear it ticking away. Noooo!

Fourthly, thanks to City Rail for entertaining me on my way to Sydney. The acts were as follows: trackwork, one broken down train (swap to replacement train) then a broken down replacement train too. Awethome. It took me over 4 hours to get from Newcastle to Sydney – its about a 2 hour car ride. (Note that the CityRail employees dealing with the public handled the situation very well, but omg on the infrastructure / maintenance part).

OK, catch you all in a few days.