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Archive for November, 2008

Insecurity 2.0 … Don’t re-use passwords!

November 24th, 2008 - Technology - Comments Off

As an operator of a user generated content site I’d like to warn my family/friends/users and others to what I suspect is a big, and likely growing, security problem. Not every username/password system is as secure as the big ones you are used to (e.g. Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.) so do NOT re-use your  ”usual [...]

Twittering Twitterers & other Wild Observers

November 13th, 2008 - Outdoors, Technology - Comments Off

I wrote http://wildobs.com with support for numerous Atom feeds (e.g.  http://wildobs.com/adam_jack.atom) because they just make sense; folks can query into a database for things that interest them, and access the information when they want it. Customized notifications w/o the interruptions. Funny thing is … I know of so few people who actually read feeds. Even techies, many [...]

Thanks for the page-age-aware search

November 12th, 2008 - Technology, Work - Comments Off

In this techie world where last year is just so last decade I finally looked for and found that Google Advanced search can be page age aware. When looking for some code (even documentation) for something it is great to exclude older references. Great not to find JavaScript for Netscape 3 when I need it [...]