Sunday, February 25, 2007
What is your online banking password? I have 10 to 1 odds that say it sucks. You should probably do something about that. If you like money, that is.
Alex King wrote a couple of posts [1, 2] on using password hashing software to abstract your passwords out of your head, ostensibly increasing the level of security involved with the web sites you entrust your information to.
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Brad Fults
Sunday, February 25, 2007
I spent this afternoon implementing a new abstract overview of this site’s contents at the root. It’s an effort to break away from the essentially time-only perspective previously forced on the reader and instead to provide different perspectives for exploring content from all different times.
It may be worth noting that I haven’t tested it in [...]
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Saturday, February 24, 2007
There’s a specific elation that comes from gripping a sturdy wheel in one hand, throwing crisp shifts with the other and feeling the force of acceleration in your abdomen as your right foot plunges forward.
Being in complete control of a powerful machine and with the flick of your wrist shifting the g forces against the [...]
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Brad Fults
Thursday, February 22, 2007
You’re up late in Widener Library on the Harvard campus, studying for your MCAT to get into Johns Hopkins Medical School. There’s a familiar face at one of the tables next to you — it’s that kid who never shows up for lecture and is constantly struggling through the same material that you and your [...]
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
I’ve written previously [1, 2, 3] on clean URLs and URL design, but recently I stumbled across the Well Designed URLs Initiative.
I’ve joined the cause and am discussing the finer points of URL design on their mailing list. The founder, Mike Schinkel, has a good introduction/overview on his blog.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
Apparently my post about global warming or, rather, the lack thereof has new evidence behind it.
The Times Online of the UK published a headline recently: An experiment that hints we are wrong on climate change. The findings of Henrik Svensmark seem to be on target with one of the authors I quoted in my previous [...]
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