How are You Carving Your Pumpkin?

Oct 8, 2009 | One Comment

It’s that time of year again… the time when my dogs like to play dress-up. I have to sit around looking like a normal dude, handing out candy and entertaining the masses on the live stream. Meanwhile, Wicket and Pixie get to have all the fun! How is that even right? I love Halloween. It’s [...]

Managing your Passwords: Protection from Phishing / Identity Theft

May 7, 2009 | 2 Comments

It is baffling when some people put their passwords on a sticky note and leave it on the edge of their monitor. Yes, that really happens. There are other things that people do with passwords that would make your jaw drop. Do you use a universal password for numerous sites? Is your password really your [...]

How to Keep from Getting Bored if the Internet Goes Down

Dec 18, 2007 | 42 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed *GASP* What? The Internet could go down? What will we do? How will we survive? Unfortunately, it happens to all of us at some point. Here are some interesting ideas to keep yourself busy during the “Intarweb’s” downtimes. Clean out and [...]

Google Calendar Security Notice

Apr 22, 2007 | 42 Comments

Uh, guys… y’all gotta tell your friends not to store usernames and passwords in public documents – at least, not without protecting them with passwords themselves. More importantly, the last thing you want to do is set a reminder for yourself in Google Calendar and leave the login credentials in the reminder AND set it [...]

Managing Passwords Online

Jun 13, 2006 | 10 Comments

Okay, well… I can’t say that my search has ended, but I think I found something that’ll be “good enough” until something better comes along. As I noted in my original post, I was looking for an ASP model for password management (although I suppose a “private” Web-based solution would likely be better). I don’t [...]

Password Management

Jun 4, 2006 | 18 Comments

Ponzi and I are at our wit’s end. We have a lot of passwords to keep between each other, for both personal and business accounts. Initially, a single password-protected spreadsheet did the trick. However, she saw it fit to add an additional tab with her own account information to the same file – and then [...]