As I promised Arjay, I’m posting a blog entry of the story behind my new headphones. But first, let me give a brief “history” of my life and pricey headphones so that readers can make more sense out of this entry. Read More
Headphone talk
Taas kilay
I apologize for the title, I really can’t think of anything better.
Anyways, I replaced my brow-ring after 2 weeks. I’m aware that it usually takes 4-6 weeks for this piercing type to heal, but I felt compelled to for a bunch of reasons.
How’s your password?
I promised myself that I’d write a post on this topic since God knows when, just never got to do it.
But there was a recent incident in the messageboard where we think a couple of users’ passwords were compromised. Of course we won’t discount the possibilty of a security exploit, but since the accounts were isolated, I’m inclined to think the former. So no better time than now to make good on that promise.
There’s a lot one can say about what you should NOT use as a password (e.g. common words, birth-dates, personal identification information, etc.), but instead of restating the obvious, I thought I’d talk about what you could do with your current weak (but memorable) password and beef it up.
Ultimately, it is accepted that randomness is the key to password strength. So the natural goal is to make one’s password as random as possible.
Unfortunately, not everyone has perfect memory, hence it’s a sad reality that people will choose passwords that they can remember; and that usually means choosing really simple ones at that.
But there is a way to create [somewhat] secure passwords which are also memorable.
Don’t believe me? Read on.
What girl[friend]s need to know about their geek boyfriend(s)
Looks like this video hit home for a lot of people. I was surprised that even friends of mine who knew nothing of technology, would even know about this videocast; sure enough, it was because of their geek “partners.”
I really have nothing else to say about this aside from the fact that whether women (or men) like it or not, the geeks will inherit the future. Technology will only progress, and will, little by little (or by leaps and bounds) integrate more and more into society… those who “control” technology will be on top, that’s inevitable.
I’m really glad that my GF and I don’t have this sort of problem. I’m a geek and she’s a nerd, so I guess we already realized way before that there are some “wierd” things about each other that we’ll never understand and will just have to accept 😉
