Bye Bye Flickr

I haven't used my flickr account for ages, since they made it mandatory to have a Yahoo ID to log in. I have no desire to be a yahoo customer, the company has tried too many times to foist me off with the yahoo toolbar. They are too pushy for my tastes. I wanted to close the flickr account but to do that I had to log in with a Yahoo ID (Catch 22) so it was a job I kept putting off.

I decided to bite the bullet and do it. So that yahoo wouldn't be able to spam me I created a mail account with http://mailexpire.com and used that to create a yahoo ID. mailexpire gave me a transient email address that will expire in a few hours time. All email sent to this address is forwarded to my own address. It took me three tries to get the illegible yahoo captcha right and I was given the usual wilkinsonpeter321 kind of ugly yahoo loser email address. I used it to delete the flickr account and then I deleted the yahoo ID which was barely ten minutes old.

Time will tell whether mailexpire start sending me spam...

I noticed this on the Yahoo sign-up site:

NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site.

I'm not sure if this is a 'may contain nuts' kind of warning for a sign-up page that asks me for my name or if it means something more sinister.

Site5 minus 750g

I mentioned last week how I'd signed up for one of the site5 750g hosting packages and also enquired whether my company could use a similar account for remote backup. Since the latter made me aware of the limitations of the 750g account I decided to cancel my personal account under their 60 day guarantee.

They didn't quibble, they asked me to confirm that I had nothing that needed backing up and cancelled the account, refunding my money.

In all the times I've had to deal with them site5 has always given me great service.

Peter's Blog - Nodes for byebye

Bye Bye Flickr

Site5 minus 750g