yahoo = teh suck

So yahoo have broken third-party interop with their messaging network again. My sole reason for getting a yahoo account was because someone organised a party using yahoo's mailing list doohickey, and I've only hung around because my mother uses yahoo as her IM client. Now I can't connect to it unless I use their official client, which - on unix - is a piece of suck anyway - and really I'm wondering what the point is. It's certainly got nothing to do with spammers, and everything to do with forcing people into their market, people like me who have contacts using yahoo.

And if that wasn't enough, tell me why it is that Yahoo's TV listings for my area are starting at 8pm? It knows what timezone I'm in, after all. Would it be too much to ask that they give current listings?

gig review

waider goes to a gig, takes notes and writes them up. I realised while writing up I'd taken too many notes on what was being played and not really enough on how it was being played. Also, I'm not a very good music reviewer - I have neither the ability to articulate my thoughts properly nor the depth of musical knowledge to draw interesting comparisons between what I've heard and what I'm hearing. But hey, it was a fun evening.