Laura Fisher plurked the mys­te­ri­ous phrase “mit­ten is vaguery” ear­lier this evening. Turns out that in the con­text of the GoPlan project man­age­ment site… she’s right.

Seems like some kind of deep but odd data­base cor­rup­tion has crept in at GoPlan. When­ever a hyper­link to Laura’s account appears on our project site, my name appears; when a link to me appears, her name shows up. Click “Laura Fisher” and you’ll be email­ing me, for exam­ple; I edit some­thing and the RSS feed records her as doing it.

She’s nowhere near as wordy or bossy as I am, so this is clearly a mistake.

Update: Tiago Macedo from GoPlan sup­port responds by point­ing out that Laura’s account record has my name in it, and my account record has her name in it, so ‘if you change your name every­thing will be “as expected”.’

And the big ques­tion right here is: How did pri­vate, session-​​associated data get mixed up, and how often does that typ­i­cally hap­pen in a bug­less, secure, safe Web appli­ca­tion these days?

Scary. Very close to ask­ing for a refund on this one issue. WTF, WeBreak­Stuff?