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Shiny Things - January 25th, 2008
Jan. 25th, 2008
06:03 am - Stupid Security Questions
On logging in to my phone service provider this morning, they announced a security upgrade. I had to select two security questions and enter answers for them. Here's a sampling:
What is your favorite movie?
What was the name of your favorite childhood pet?
What was the name of your favorite teacher?
What is the name of your favorite author?
Do you notice a trend here? There were two sets of five questions, and I had to choose one from each set. In each set, all, or nearly all, asked me about my favorite X.
So what's wrong with that? Opinions change. If my favorite author was Tolkien, then I read a book by LM Bujold, Tolkien may no longer be my favorite author. These sorts of questions should be about personal facts that cannot change. Of all the questions available, only one was about a fact.
After I selected the questions and entered my answers, the system displayed my selections and told me to record them in a safe place. Let's be realistic. The main reason I would ever use these questions is because I forgot my password, right? If I didn't record my password, why would I record these? Jeesh.
10:15 am - Crysis Blog
One of my colleagues has been keeping a blog of his experiences playing the single-person campaign for the computer game Crysis. Rather than merely recording the events of the game itself, he's been writing them as a fictionalized first-person account, elaborating with his own descriptions of the game world. After two months of play, he's just finished the campaign.
Yesterday his blog was featured on incrysis.com. Apparently some of the game's developers had become aware of his blog and were enjoying reading along. :)
12:41 pm - The Pride and Pain of Publishing
Interesting article I was referred to today by gameplaywright. I really need to work on step 4. But honestly, after getting StoryCards past step 2, I just wanted to do something else for a while.
I'd much rather be a designer than a publisher, but I became a publisher to design what I wanted the way I wanted it. I think I also became a publisher so I wouldn't have to sell my design to a publisher. This was a tactical error. Instead of selling my design to one publisher, I now need to sell my design to hundreds of consumers. Oops. :)
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