brad dielman

When logging into Flickr this evening I found the following message in my inbox:

Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member,

On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.

I’m not sure how I feel about this yet. I’ve been with Flickr for awhile and watched as the sign in page was changed after Yahoo! took over. First it was the normal sign on, then the page was equally shared between ‘Old Skool’ account members and those with Yahoo! IDs. Then we were relegated to an obscure link at the bottom of the page. Now they are doing away with it altogether.

Don’t get me wrong, I will continue to use the service. I love Flickr. Its one of the best services on the web and I have no intention of leaving. I just feel, well, kind of like the old members were sold out. I understand the rationale behind having a unified sign on process, but it doesn’t feel right.

It won’t be long before my account on Del.icio.us is switched over as well.

I know I’m making a bigger deal out of this than need be. I just wanted to rant.

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1. So far so good. Most of my plugins seem to be working okay, although there is a bit of a glitch with WP Tiger Administration by Steve Smith, although I’m sure that will be fixed shortly. At least I hope so. He’s quite busy these days with his new design agency.

I don’t foresee too many problems since I have a pretty basic set up as far the nuts and bolts of the theme is concerned. The design itself is quite simple, so its better that I upgrade and iron out any problems before it becomes more complex.

Well, I’ll be posting and adding pages to this site at a frequent pace here in the next few weeks as well as tweaking the theme to introduce custom layouts depending on where you are in the site. That should tell me right away if there are any problems with the upgrade that need to be addressed.