Ain't Complicated

(More and Better) Secure Passwords

Long and simple is better and more effective...even than sentence-based with symbols and numbers

So hackers and attackers have been on the loose against self-hosted WordPress installations.

This post applies to you…even if you do not use WordPress!

I’m here with a message for you…not about WordPress…but about practicing safe passwords.

Four years ago I wrote about Pitching Pitiful Passwords.

This morning I was reminded of a simpler, yet more effective, password tactic: Read it all

You have to convince your reader that your story is worth his time.

This is just for you:

You have to convince them
that your stories are worth their time.
—Tucker Carlson

It’s about your readers — you’d better listen up.

Evil peddles tolerance until it is dominant, then seeks to silence good.

Evil peddles tolerance until it is dominant,
then seeks to silence good.
–Erick Erickson

All the way dead.

Dead. As in, no life left in the body.

Dead. As in, put that body in a tomb.

Dead. As in, still, cold, stiff.

They killed Jesus dead.

Others took His body off the cross, dead.

And put His body in a tomb, dead.

Dead, dead, dead — they killed Him dead.

A hand-picked anti-spam solution for your yard

Dandelions — spam in our front yard

I thought that one up all by myself this morning.

I’m back to trying the technique I tried four years ago at the other place: Dandelion Eradication. (That’s a post illustrated with photos.)

For another how-to post with accompanying photos, try this one: How to Kill a Gopher.

For one of their former own at her wedding reception

One of the young women in our youth group (or at least in it within recent memory) got married this weekend.

She (they, I’m sure) asked the youth group (Hopewell Mennonite Church) to sing four songs at the reception.

Here are my two favorites:

Title: “Can You Hear?”
Soloist: Jason Boss

I've led a sheltered life -- I had no idea.

First of all, I’ve led a sheltered life — I had no idea about triangular pancakes. 😳

Second of all, what’s to keep the aggressive “non-lambs” from cutting their altered flapjacks back into weapons-grade assault triangles? 😯

Third of all, here’s the story as I copied and pasted it: Read it all