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I made a serious error some 24 hours ago. I tried adding the Men's Shed's iCloud email account to the MyMail app on the iPod Touch. Something went horribly in the process and the account was locked "for security reasons."
To access the security questions on Apple's iforgot website I need a birthday but none of the ones I entered were accepted. I contacted Apple but they couldn't help either.

So that address had to be abandoned. All essential emails had been saved as attachments or in the Notes app anyway, so it wasn't that difficult to set up a new iCloud email account then inform all contacts of the new address.
But I had to come up with a new iTunes Store/App Store account and discovered that Apple no longer allows new usernames ending with @icloud.com! So I set up another Gmail account and used it to set up an App Store account. In the process of doing that I was then required to create in essence, a verified alias that did end in @icloud.com. Either the Gmail address or the verified alias can be used in App Store transactions. There were two apps that had to be repurchased, so I bought a $30 iTunes gift card at a 20% discount and was reimbursed by the Shed's Treasurer.
The new accounts are set up and working properly and I made sure to take a screenshot of the birthday and security questions and answers before uploading that to Dropbox.
The salvage was made easier because there weren't a lot of emails to deal with anyway.

I made a strong point of deleting the MyMail app from the iPod Touch.

422 days ago I replied to a tweet. Just a few minutes ago, another Twitterite replied to my reply. Yay for relevance.

Confused! Yesterday at 2 pm I prepared a cup of tea at the Men's Shed. Nothing unusual about that but in this case it was done while a coffee was brewing up in a French press. I drank the coffee & put the tea in the fridge. I'm due back at the Shed in 4 ½ hours, so I'll reheat it in the microwave.

@literary Wow, that's really kind.

@matigo PMs are Puppy Messages, surely?

// @sumudu @paulgit @hazardwarning

@matigo Fry an egg? With that combination of heat & humidity, you could poach one.

// @JeremyCherfas @indigo

@tomas But seriously, honour: honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions.
pride: a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority,
whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.

@tomas spelling?

Ordered a new coffee from my regular supplier. Ground the last of their Witches Brew espresso today. I has a trip of about 3000 km from Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands west of Cairns in Queensland. Generally the stuff arrives via courier around 24 hours after it's despatched. Pretty good service. Here's a description of the new brew.

At last Apple Music is ditching the DRM & metadata library matching in favour of the iTunes Match acoustic fingerprinting.

http://www.macworld.com/article/3093473/streaming-services/apple-improves-icloud-music-library-matching-ditches-drm-files-for-apple-music.html

What does this mean for you?

Having both services use the same matching method should improving matching and hopefully making your iTunes library less cloudy. More specifically:

You don’t use iCloud Music Library: Nothing to see here, move along. You keep playing your music as before.

You subscribe to iTunes Match subscription, and not to Apple Music: Nothing changes. Your life goes on as normal, and you continue paying $25 a year to have your music (up to 100,000 tracks) in the cloud.

You have both iTunes Match and Apple Music subscriptions: You can turn off auto-renew for iTunes Match. You won’t need iTunes Match any more, since Apple Music will now match using acoustic fingerprinting, and your files won’t have DRM if you download them on another device. Go into your account in the iTunes Store (Account > View My Account), then go to iTunes in the Cloud > iTune Match, and click Turn Off Automatic Renewal.

You subscribe only to Apple Music: You won’t notice much of a change. The only difference will be that new matched tracks will have an iCloud Status of Matched, rather than Apple Music, and they won’t have DRM. You can force older downloaded tracks to change their status by deleting the local copies and re-downloading them; iTunes won’t automatically do this for you. And you can play these matched tracks on any device, even one that doesn’t have an Apple Music subscription or isn’t signed into Apple Music. Note that tracks you add from Apple Music to your library still have DRM; this change only affects tracks that are matched from music you own.

Also, if you are an Apple Music subscriber, then you won’t be able to subscribe to iTunes Match any more; which makes sense, since you won’t need it.