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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Apr 17, 2005
I spent half a day with Bob trying to log into the AOP webspace, to no avail. We double and triple checked the password, but it kept being rejected. This was the same problem that Bob and I had two weeks ago, the last time he came round.
We split a large lasagne, drank lots of 
and tried various other techniques, inclusing prolonged stints attempting to connect using a laptop and dial-up.
Eventually, as Bob was packing up to head home, he tried sticking a space on the end of the password, because he remembered the original email had a space on the end too. It worked first time. 
Bob hung around for another hour, and we got a little of the work we'd intended to do, done. 
There's a lot more to do tomorrow. 
Just now, I'm watching a Keanu Reeves / Morgan Freeman movie called "Chain Reaction". It's a mildly amusing spy/chase movie. 
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martine_s Posted Apr 18, 2005
You old Pseud Peet, selling us the new technology and yet still pottering about with missing spaces... It has changed my whole mind-picture of you. Can you really be trusted...
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 18, 2005
My guess is that the guy who owns the site changed the password, then thought better of it and went to change it back to what it was originally. If you double-click the password in the original email, it highlights the word *plus* the trailing space for copying. 
That may be unfair; there are other ways this space might have appeared without his intervention, but they're just *extremely* unlikely. 
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Apr 18, 2005
Traveller in Time 
waiting 
"Use the space to login, or is the entire keyboard down today ? "
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Apr 18, 2005
He claims he didn't touch it. It's moot now that I know to add the space.
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 17, 2005)
- 2: martine_s (Apr 18, 2005)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Apr 18, 2005)
- 4: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Apr 18, 2005)
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