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Note to the e-commerce department: How about I just give you my credit card number every time I want to purchase something? You know, like in the real world? Like we always do it? My credit card number is already my unique identifier. Why do I need a seperate unique identifier at every site?
This would have the following benefits:
1) I wouldn't have to fight your bizarre web site to set up a user account.
2) I wouldn't have to repeat step 1 every time I go to purchase something because I can't remember the password from the previous account set up ordeal.
3) I'll feel more secure, because my credit card number is not stored in your computers. (Really, thanks for the offer for help, but I don't have much trouble carrying my card around in my pocket.)
4) You'll escape giving the impression that you're just making me go through this whole user account process because you think I'm dumb enough to purchase something from you in the future just because I already have an account set up.
Thanks for listening. I'll expect these changes in place by later this afternoon.
I've been thrown out of my routine, and now I can't get any traction. A bunch of stuff is about to happen. The restaurant is opening. The basement office is finally done and ready for occupation. The new software is basically done and ready to be deployed. But there is still work to be done, loose ends to be joined. For me it's always this last bit that proves to be the most difficult. At first it's all possibility. It's all about what we want to make happen. But at this point, so late in the game, these projects are pretty much in charge of us! Demanding that we finish up this piece or that. Too late to make any real changes that aren't already figured in the present shape of the project itself. I grow bored at this point.
I'm really impressed by MB and J's ability to stay focused. Right through to the end. Meanwhile I'm quite scattered, and not really much help (if I ever was.) Still, I have been secretly laying plans for what might come next, although it's too soon for any details. Plus, part of the trick is making it seem like someone else's idea.
I'm up to 478 songs on the massive restaurant mix. That's 34 hours, 24 minutes and 25 seconds of music taking up 2.31 GB of space. That makes the iPod about half full. This project is taking more time than I thought. Haven't really been able to get anything else done. And I probably have a few more days to go.
I'm going to try to take a few pictures today. The restaurant is really coming together. Now if Con Ed would just be a little more helpful we could launch this thing.
Not sure what this will do to my web project. Hopefully I'll be able to jump right back in and not have to spend too much time coming back up to speed. We'll see. These are the dangers of being involved in many different pursuits.
Setting up a friends iMac today. Straight to OS X which I think will be good for a beginner. But what do you say to someone who really doesn't know anything about computers? I mean really nothing. How much do you explain? This is a hard question I've been thinking about for a few weeks now. I can't come to any obvious answers so I'm just going to wing it. But I'd like to have something more systematic to go by. Perhaps this will be the start of me developing such a rap.