I was assigning a password to a new account and was having trouble finding one the site would accept. Then I glanced over at the rules for establishing a password: It must contain 3 out of the following: At least 1 Uppercase Letter At least 1 Lowercase Letter At least 1 Number At least 1 …
Category Archives: check tags
This password thing is getting crazy
1Password not enough for you? How about 8Passwords. Forget that. Give me 47Passwords! Note: Only one of these three is fake. Sad.
Pick two of three
I just realized that three turns of phrase… “shoot yourself in the foot” “put your foot in your mouth” “shoot your mouth off” …have the same meaning that all use two of three elements: shoot foot mouth Weird, huh?
The iPhone Effect
I am finding my brain wants to “think different” while working on my MacBook because I use an iPhone, particularly while surfing the Web. Sometimes I catch myself using iPhone shortcuts and then I’m confused for a second when it doesn’t work right. Should I even be admitting this? Sometimes, when I want to focus …
Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
Marketer and author Seth Godin talked about leading tribes at the annual TED conference in February 2009. I found the video of that talk on the incredible and inspiring TED Web site. What follows in the blog post are my notes after studying his presentation. I take no credit for the ideas below. They came …
Pay for Performance does not work
I watched Daniel Pink’s TED talk on the surprising science of motivation this morning. Pink discussed pay for performance, also known as merit-based pay, and provided strong evidence that it does not work. In fact, he showed that pay for performance actually erodes performance. He did relent and agree that pay for performance can be …
Sláinte
Michael, I missed you when you left the states to “go home” and miss you tons more knowing you’ve gone on to meet your maker. I shared more than a few Irish cocktails with Mr. Michael Scanlan; moments and memories that recently and tragically gained infinite value. Michael, I’m sorry I will never be able …
Typographic upgrade
Many of you probably don’t even notice things like this, but I do. I am now using Typekit to serve the fonts on this site. Click the little logo in the bottom right corner of the page to learn more about the fonts I’m using here now. Yeah, it’s a little thing, but it makes …
♪ Mr. Clean Mr. Clean ♫
One of the items that ended up in our shopping cart yesterday at the grocery store was a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Julie had a coupon for one so we decided to give it a whirl. I thought it was just another sponge, but I was wrong. I am so thankful Julie was there to …
New rules
I have finally figured out how I want this to work. Here are the rules: This blog, Southern Athenaeum, is for writing. That blog, Stuff I read, is for the stuff that catches my eye on the Internet. No #3. That’s it. You will probably see more traffic over at Stuff I Read, but if …