Countdown to Spring!

02/11/2010

This winter has been a bear. So much for global warming. I think all the recent snow is beautiful, but I am so glad we haven’t experienced a raging albino crapfest, as James Lileks dubbed such snowstorms on Twitter back in December. Our friends in Frederick, MD are buried after the week’s snowfall and much [...]

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The irony of a blond’s password

01/24/2010

My friend Larry sent me a funny story today.
During a recent password audit at a company, it was found that a blond receptionist was using the following password:
MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento
When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least [...]

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Twitter Lists wishlist

10/16/2009

I’m so glad to see the lists function coming to Twitter! Maybe with these, I won’t have to use third-party solutions* so much just to manage and filter.
That said, I have a observations and suggestions:

Let us add list members via a form with auto-complete. Don’t make us slog through pages of people we’re following just [...]

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