bramcohen points to a capture only chess puzzle by Wei-Hwa Huang. I already solved the first three puzzles from there, and found the rest too complicated for my taste. Huang has put other puzzles on his site which look interesting.

I tried to solve the 3, 3, 8, 8 one, and when I could not find a solution, I wrote a Perl script to verify that such a solution exists. The script failed, but by printing the solutions, I found that such a solution existed, only it was a rounding error. Memo to self: next time use a fraction module for such things.

I decided to change my MSN password yesterday as my previous password was relatively simple. So I changed it to a long password with some gibberish words that were partly l33t-speaked. The change at the Microsoft Passport site worked fine in Mozilla (in Konqueror it had some display problems). Then I tried to log in using the new password from Kopete.

It didn't work. I typed it again - still no. I decided that maybe the password was too long, and reduced it one character after the other manually. Still no good. Eventually (quite late at night), I changed the password to a shorter one that did not overflow the MSN password field. This time I was able to login using Kopete.

This reminded me of this incident only this time, I was able to revert. My password is now 11 alpha-numeric characters, in case anyone is experiencing any similar problems.