Re: Yahoo! and Flickr – I don’t believe you will lose Artlung as a display name on Flickr if you get there first. I do not own ferreteer as a login on Yahoo! When I merged my Yahoo tferreteer account and my Flickr Ferreteer account, it allowed me to keep Ferreteer as my display name on Flickr. Don’t know if that’s going to change, but that’s the way it’s working now.

As far as someone to talk to for retrieving login information – that’s bad – especially if they use a different criteria for validating identity than they use online. It’d be too easy to socially engineer info out of the unskilled international workforce that they’d hire to support the incredible volume of requests.

And why would you use a fake brithdate that wasn’t easy to remember in the first place? I’ll never forget my fake birthdate: Jan 01, 1945. This year, I am 60 fake years young.