random bits from the weekend

[cellio]

I just got mail from Amazon.uk telling me that the third series of 24 is being released in a couple weeks. Now I know that sometimes a "series" in the UK doesn't equal a "season" in the US, and the third season just finished here, so that made me wonder if the UK edition is breaking up seasons the way they did for West Wing early on. Near as I can tell, no. The final episode aired in May and the DVD for the season is available in August. How strange! (I'm assuming that this is a US show, not an import here, as it is a very US-centric show, but Amazon.com has nothing to say about the third season on DVD so far.) Not that I'm buying yet anyway; I just find it curious.

(Noted in passing: fourth season of West Wing in September; second season of Blake's 7 allegedly in October.)

I sometimes wonder about the security implications of the quizzes and other memes that run around LJ. Consider: your passowrd is (I think) stored in a cookie. You follow a link while reading your friends page (so you're probably logged in) to some unvouched-for site where you give your user name as part of getting some bit of content to post in your journal. I don't know a lot about cookies, but isn't it fairly straightforward for a malicious meme-writer to harvest your password that way? I try to never fill those things out while logged in, personally. (Yes, I do sometimes fill them out, out of curiosity -- the ones that are likely to have interesting content, like the mind map and the friends-list-evaluation ones, not the "what kind of eggplant are you?" ones.)

The two instances of Giant Eagle that I shop at seem to have both stopped carrying my cats' favorite food (Tender Vittles). While googling to try to find out if the product had been discontinued (no one at the store seemed to know anything), I found a place where I can mail-order it by the case for about what I normally pay for it. Ok, that works. Gee, I wonder if I can mail-order the cat litter under similar circumstances, rather than shlepping it home from the store myself? I'll have to try that.

This afternoon I attended a bridal shower for a friend. I so do not know how to be a girly girl. :-) It was a fun time, but there was a lot more estrogen in the air than I'm used to.

Comments

[cellio]

Ah, thanks. That would be a much better way of doing things, yes. :-) (I've never worked with cookies directly -- generating or reading them.)

I'm pretty sure Netscape had the setting you describe for sending cookies only to the issuer. I can't find such a setting in Mozilla; with luck that's because it always imposes this restriction, but I'm not sure how to find out. (Maybe it's in the documentation somewhere.) I'm pretty sure IE behaves as you've described, but I'm not currently using IE except for inspection of local files at work (a requirement).