logging in to Gov. of Canada's site an exercise in frustration
I love Canada. Couldn't pick a better place to live. And I suppose if the following exercise is one of the worst annoyances in recent memory when dealing with my federal government, then that is a good thing.
How:
pray:
tell:
am I meant to login to the Canada Revenue site to change my address? It is a good thing that you owe me money this year, or it would probably be easier for me to setup a website for you to login and get my tax information.
Computer programming is my day job and I happen to have access to a lot of machines -- one of which is an old Windows 2000 machine that still has IE 6 on it. I was able to login to the epass system in this browser. However, I suspect that a lot of your users will not be able to login the moment they follow Microsoft's Windows Update prompts to upgrade from IE6 to IE7.
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Komodo Planet and Yahoo Pipes
I played a bit with Yahoo's new Pipes web app. At ActiveState we have a number of blogs where many of us write about what interesting things we are working on. A number of those posts are about Komodo. As well, with the recent 4.0 release, Komodo has started popping up on blogs more and more -- in particular, the very cool "Komodo Hacks" series from Brandon.
So, without further ado, I give you the Komodo Planet Pipe.
Let me know if there are other blogs I should add to this. Currently it just filters on posting titles matching "Komodo". I tried to also include filtering on the posting content but Yahoo Pipes kept giving me (unhelpful) errors with that. I like the idea of Pipes, but overall I found the current experience to be too unresponsive to be pleasing.
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