I will not make an “All Your Base” joke when writing about Y.Base. I will not make an “All Your Base” joke when writing about Y.Base…

The Trotsky joke in the Debug Logging section is totally staying, though.

David Mack, Another reason to loathe Facebook:

Facebook, on its own initiative and without asking me first, changed my Official Author Page to a Community Page, a sort of public forum that anyone can create. This removes certain features, takes its content out of people’s newsfeeds, deprives me of official control over the page, and generally makes it sort of useless. It also makes it harder to distinguish from Facebook’s automatically generated info pages.

I might have restrained my response to an angry sigh and a shrug except for one thing. In the page’s top bar of information, they altered a key piece of information. It now reads “Community Page about David W. Mack” — complete with that link. That’s right: those morons at Facebook linked what had been MY OFFICIAL PAGE to one about the OTHER David Mack, the creator of Kabuki. And they did this FOR NO REASON. And left me NO MEANS OF FIXING IT.

This just highlights the importance of proper namespacing, in meatspace as well as cyberspace. As luck would have it, I am offering membership in the extremely rare “Goer” namespace, for a reasonable price…