I just noticed that the Yahoo! GeoPlanet API made an API change to its JSON API that breaks existing apps. (I noticed because it broke the sign-up process for the new Singularity teaser site.)

Googling around, I couldn't find any announcements from Yahoo! about this. I don't know if there's a notification feed somewhere that I'm missing -- if so, I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. Otherwise, in case any other developres are using the Yahoo! GeoPlanet JSON API and are affected by this, here's a summary of the change from the post I just made on the yws-geo forum:

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Writing the post on del.icio.us's password policy got me thinking about passwords and online security again.

Having a strong password policy such as "passwords must be longer than six characters and must contain a number or a symbol and a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is great in theory but let's take a moment to follow Joe User as he encounters such a policy and chooses his password:

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First way:

Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success.

Second way:

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After running through a lot of merges last night (I was incrementally going through several changesets to see where I'd introduced an interesting regression) and updating to the HEAD revision and fixing the bug, I got the following error message while trying to commit:

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Your file or directory 'paypal.py' is probably out-of-date
svn: The version resource does not correspond to the resource within the transaction.  Either the requested version resource is out of date (needs to be updated), or the requested version resource is newer than the transaction root (restart the commit).

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electricrain, makers of Swift3D, the popular 3D software for Flash, have just started advertising on the Pistach.io Flash Pack.

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