Please keep your laptop on your desk, and only ever use the worldwide web from that single location.

My email is, once again, failing to remember what the point of the internet is.

The point of the internet, as summarised by Mez: YOU CAN GET TO THE BITS YOU WANT FROM ANYWHERE.


I opened my laptop* just now, at my parents' house.
* a portable device, designed to be carried to unusual locations

My laptop's email application quickly did a check for new mail - and Google freaked out. Google logged me out, and emailed me saying "Someone else used your password to try to get into your email account! Change your password immediately!"

(The first time Google did this, I was the sucker who thought I should change my password immediately. I now have a more annoying email password that's harder to remember, which makes it extra annoying when, for example, Google logs me out of my email for being in a new location.)

Which... again. This is the internet. This is what it's for. This is my laptop. This is what my laptop's for. I am supposed to be able to travel to new locations, with the portable device of my choice - or a completely different device, should I so choose - and log into my email from anywhere. THAT IS THE POINT OF EMAIL.



On a related note: recently, I logged into an email account I don't usually use. Google instantly sent me a "Someone has logged in! Password not safe! Panic!" email.

Where did they send it? That's right - to the account they'd just logged me into.

So:
- I log in.
- I see the email inbox.
- The inbox has a new email, from Google, wondering if someone has breached my account, and wanting me to verify whether it's okay.
- I open the email, check "yep, really me", and get on with my day.
...which would have been equally possible if I was in fact a sneaky hacker logging into someone else's email.

my biggest problem with A Good Man Goes To War

The more I see of Steven Moffat, the more I admire Russell T. Davies. If nothing else, for his ability to get Moffat to write well.


For my issues with Moffat's Doctor Who as a whole, see Sherlock is Garbage and Here's Why. For most of my problems with the episode in question, see this review.

But my main problem with the episode is simple: it makes things less interesting.

( the episode I hated and why I hated it )