Exercise and a bit of shopping

I woke up this morning with a pain in my hand that I didn't recognize--that is, it wasn't the old chipped bone, nor was it any of the fingers-hurt-from-overuse stuff. But I persevered, with a bit of ibuprofen; headed out when cattitude did; went to the bank; exercised; lunched in Chinatown; and spent more than I expected at Sahadi. But that's lots of spices and such, plus at least three meals' worth of sausages and pate, along with tea. I should either drink more of the Stash chai spice, or stop buying it, even at Sahadi's reasonable prices.

If any of my local friends need bay leaves or ground cardamom, say the word. (The least I can buy there is one ounce, which is more than I'll use while they're fresh.)

( gym numbers )

Exercise and a bit of shopping

I woke up this morning with a pain in my hand that I didn't recognize--that is, it wasn't the old chipped bone, nor was it any of the fingers-hurt-from-overuse stuff. But I persevered, with a bit of ibuprofen; headed out when cattitude did; went to the bank; exercised; lunched in Chinatown; and spent more than I expected at Sahadi. But that's lots of spices and such, plus at least three meals' worth of sausages and pate, along with tea. I should either drink more of the Stash chai spice, or stop buying it, even at Sahadi's reasonable prices.

If any of my local friends need bay leaves or ground cardamom, say the word. (The least I can buy there is one ounce, which is more than I'll use while they're fresh.)

( gym numbers )

"friendditto" is not your friend

Several people on my friends list--starting with jenett--have posted warnings about this. "Friendditto" is a Web site, not affiliated with LiveJournal (though I gather they're claiming to be), that is collecting people's usernames and passwords in order to archive those people's friends' friends-only posts.

There are all sorts of security risks therein, but the major one is that even if they do only what they claim, this means that they're archiving person A's friends-only posts because person B says they can.

If you're on my friends list and see posts with that little lock symbol, it means I'm willing to share them with you. It also means I'm trusting your judgment to a certain extent: telling your sweeties what's going on with me, or filing off the identifying information and telling your mother or roommate about an amusing incident, is one thing [1]; letting someone you don't even know see and quite possibly republish my posts is another.

If you've given your password to friendditto, please do at least one of the following:

1. Change your password at once. [1]


2. Notify me so I can drop you from any of my filters more private or specific than the four-part division of my list into people [human and animal], space probes, communities, and RSS feeds.

If you want an archive copy of something I've posted, you don't need anything like friendditto: save it to your hard drive, or hit "print" and file the hardcopy.

[1] Even then, if you're not sure, please ask.
[2] It would probably also be a good idea to change the password on any other site for which you're using the same password.

"friendditto" is not your friend

Several people on my friends list--starting with jenett--have posted warnings about this. "Friendditto" is a Web site, not affiliated with LiveJournal (though I gather they're claiming to be), that is collecting people's usernames and passwords in order to archive those people's friends' friends-only posts.

There are all sorts of security risks therein, but the major one is that even if they do only what they claim, this means that they're archiving person A's friends-only posts because person B says they can.

If you're on my friends list and see posts with that little lock symbol, it means I'm willing to share them with you. It also means I'm trusting your judgment to a certain extent: telling your sweeties what's going on with me, or filing off the identifying information and telling your mother or roommate about an amusing incident, is one thing [1]; letting someone you don't even know see and quite possibly republish my posts is another.

If you've given your password to friendditto, please do at least one of the following:

1. Change your password at once. [1]


2. Notify me so I can drop you from any of my filters more private or specific than the four-part division of my list into people [human and animal], space probes, communities, and RSS feeds.

If you want an archive copy of something I've posted, you don't need anything like friendditto: save it to your hard drive, or hit "print" and file the hardcopy.

[1] Even then, if you're not sure, please ask.
[2] It would probably also be a good idea to change the password on any other site for which you're using the same password.