Wednesday Morning Bullet Post - Holy Week Edition...
- Lots of people say that they are worried about online identity theft. Do you know what can be done to protect yourself? For one thing, you can use strong passwords.
- A strong password is one that is difficult for a hacker to crack.
- Short passwords are easy to crack. Any word found in a dictionary is easy to crack. Common people, place, and pet names are easy to crack. So, what does this leave? Combinations of all characters: use uppercase as well as lowercase and toss in special characters.
- You can test example passwords at Password Meter.
- lollipop gets a 0% rating. (Found in all English dictionaries.)
- L@liePahp is better at 48%.
- But, *L0!!iePahP# wins with a whopping 100% rating.
- And it is still easy to remember.
- Why do I bring this up? John P posted a good blog article entitled How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords in which he presents solid statistics for the techniques mentioned.
- Happy Birthday, Mommy Sheep!
- I haven't knit in over a week. This hasn't happened to me since I started knitting seriously in 2005. My mojo is definitely MIA. If you should happen to trip over it in your local coffee shop, bookstore, or library, could you please nourish it with some tea and a cookie or two, pat it on the head, point it towards home, and give it a gentle push?
- Thanks. Socks and sweaters do not knit themselves, after all.
- They haven't got opposable thumbs, you see.
- Hmm, by that logic, a singular hand-knit pair of gloves should be able to spawn an entire race of knitwear.
- Opops, I think I just channelled The Matrix.
- It's raining here.
- Still.
- People are making ark jokes.
- Getting a bit stale, in my humble opinion.
- Forecast is for clearing skies later today; that's a good thing.
- Another (potentially) good thing is that one of the other computer science adjuncts over at the college is moving on to an exciting new position somewhere else. This is good for him because he's got a new full-time job. It is good for me because I am going to take over the last month of his programming class.
- Number Guy is sacrificing band practice for those classes. He volunteered to do it, commenting that this is a good opportunity to move forward to the more challenging classes and maybe a foot in the door should a permanent position open up in the department.
- There will be a lot of brushing-up and preparation to do in the next couple of weeks.
- Note to self: get current instructor's grades.
- Wish me luck.
- Neatnik has 50 new books under her belt so far this year. Time to take her out for ice cream again.
- And back to the library.
- Speaking of books and Neantik, only two authors have returned my emails regarding Neatnik's school's fund raiser, :: sigh ::, but both of them are donating, so that's good.
- Speaking of Neatnik and Neatnik's school, we are having another Box Tops for Education contest. Anyone who wants to mail me some for the second grade, leave me a comment or drop me a line, 'kay? We have to turn them in to school by April 12th.
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And here it's very dry. *sigh*
Congrats on the new job!!
I want that spell Mrs. Weasley uses in Harry Potter--you know, the one that makes things knit themselves. Just for the boring bits.
It's been raining here on the west coast too. Maybe all of the mojo in the knitting universe has ran away together and formed a commune. Once it's located we may need to host an intervention.
Fascinating. I will be changing my password promptly.
Hah! I'm ready this time with the boxtops! I've been saving them. (OK, it was Mommy Sheep, but whatever...) Now let's see if I remember to get them in the mail!
Also low on the knitting mojo these days, but who knows? Maybe things will look up once the weather gets really hot and knitting no longer makes sense. :)
Back in the 1950s, in New Hampshire, one year it rained every day for over thirty days.
Doh! I've been collecting box tops, but I've been remiss on my blog reading. Taking over for someone mid-course sounds like an exciting proposition.
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