{"id":4800,"date":"2014-07-12T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:37:59","slug":"its-well-known-that-im-impatient-with-websites-and-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/07\/12\/its-well-known-that-im-impatient-with-websites-and-software\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s well known that I&#8217;m impatient with websites, and software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to figure out why websites in particular annoy me, and then it dawned on me. &nbsp;I get annoyed because I always fall down the rabbit hole with websites. It seems it&rsquo;s always more likely for me to have difficulties than anyone else I know.<\/p>\n<p>This is in fact the curse of having been a software QA person. Apparently, its something that is completely genetic and regardless of your current occupation you always have software faults &nbsp;jump out at you. &nbsp;Its sort of a &ldquo;<em>BOO! You can&rsquo;t report me, neener neener.<\/em>&rdquo; from the software that you&rsquo;re trying to use and not intending to test. Or you could call this taunting more like a red cape being waved in front of a bull. Most often I&rsquo;ll see the most egregious errors when I&rsquo;ve lost a password to a web site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I Navigate to a web site, then discover I&rsquo;ve forgotten the password. I initiate lost password recovery procedure which asks for email address I used when the account was created.<\/p>\n<p>I enter the email that the website is using to SPAM my ass.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<em>We don&rsquo;t that email address on file, try again.<\/em>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>At this point I&rsquo;m usually dumbfounded and go back to my email, find their SPAM, verify the address they&rsquo;re using and copy that address right out of the email they&rsquo;ve sent me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<em>We don&rsquo;t that email address on file, try again.<\/em>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>What? I go to the &ldquo;I forgot my user ID&#8221; section of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Often entering the email the web site claims they don&rsquo;t have on file yields access to the recovery the user ID.<\/p>\n<p>The question that goes through my mind is; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If the web site doesn&rsquo;t have my email address on file, then why do I get SPAM from the site and more interestingly why am I able to recover a user ID with a reportedly unknown email address.<\/p>\n<p>At this point I sigh and move on.<\/p>\n<p>With the recovered ID, I move on to the forgot password section of the website.<\/p>\n<p>About half the time, the recovered ID still generates:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<em>We don&rsquo;t that email address on file, try again.<\/em>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>In the event that I am able to progress to resetting the password then we go down the rabbit hole of what&rsquo;s an acceptable password.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I try <strong>fart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;Your entry is invalid. Your password must be eight characters long&gt;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I enter <strong>fartfart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;Your entry is invalid. Your password must be eight characters long and contain at least one capital letter&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I enter <strong>Fartfart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;Your entry is invalid. Your password must be eight characters long and contain at least one numeral.&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I enter&nbsp;<strong>Fartfart1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;Your entry is invalid. Your password must be eight characters long and contain at least one special character such as a space, or punctuation mark.&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I enter&nbsp;<strong>Fart fart 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&lt;Your entry is invalid. Your password must be eight characters long and contain at least one special character such as a space, or punctuation mark.&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In frustration I enter, <strong>Map-eb-aIbr-oal-eiD-aK-<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>&lt;Password Accepted&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>To complete the change to your password, answer the following security questions. You have 10 minutes to complete these answers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What Town were you born in?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What is your favorite color?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When did you lose your virginity?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How big is your dick?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When did you stop beating your wife?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What was the name of your first dog?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How was that dog killed?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How have you resolved your feelings at being responsible for the death of your first dog?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Where did your parents meet?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How many times a week did your father beat your mother?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since you were responsible for the abuse your mother took at the hands of your father has that colored your adult relationships?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When your fourth dog died of old age, did you feel that you&rsquo;d been forgiven for causing the &ldquo;Accidental&rdquo; deaths of the preceding 3 dogs?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How long have you had inappropriate sexual feelings?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Your password has been changed, please login using your new credentials&#8230;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"PenisFlats.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PenisFlats.jpg\" alt=\"PenisFlats\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At which point I&rsquo;m quivering in my chair suffering a psychological crisis generated by the combination of general frustration, and answering the security questions.<\/p>\n<p>After 40 minutes of deep breathing, a couple of stiff drinks and an overdose of Prozac.<\/p>\n<p>I remember why I was trying to log into the web site in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I log back in to the site, and close my account.<\/p>\n<p>You see, my vacation plans changed and I will not be visiting Penis Flats, so I want the Penis Flats chamber of commerce to stop sending me vacation ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to figure out why websites in particular annoy me, and then it dawned on me. &nbsp;I get annoyed because I always fall down the rabbit hole with websites. It seems it&rsquo;s always more likely for me to have difficulties than anyone else I know. This is in fact the curse of having &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2014\/07\/12\/its-well-known-that-im-impatient-with-websites-and-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s well known that I&#8217;m impatient with websites, and software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-modern-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4806,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}