Easy Ways To Create Tough Passwords

Posted on May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 by Mitch Mitchell

Last week Twitter discovered a breach in their system that could have allowed someone to download the passwords of every user of their platform. They send out a message recommending that everyone change their passwords as a just in case measure, while indicating that they didn’t think anyone else had discovered the issue.

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There was a lot of grumbling about it; not the breach itself but in the need to create new passwords. I understand it; I hate changing passwords all the time myself. However, I don’t think my issue is the same as the issue of many others.
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3 Ways Breakfast Is Like Blogging

Posted on April 23, 2018April 23, 2018 by Mitch Mitchell

I thought about writing another post about bad comments, especially after receiving this latest comment:

well again i would say that its a nice post. The athor is really a good writer.

Sigh… then I realized that I’d just written a post about fake and lousy comments in October, which made me think it was too soon for another post about them. Instead I decided to write about… breakfast.
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I Almost Didn’t Get A Comment; This Is What I Did About It…

Posted on April 16, 2018April 23, 2018 by Mitch Mitchell

Last week I did something very different from my norm. I didn’t write a new blog post on this blog or my business blog… or any of my other blogs. I wrote one for my accountant’s blog, but that’s about it. That in and of itself isn’t much of a surprise, because I’ve done that before. What’s different is the reason I didn’t write anything.

I got to the end of last week, ready to write a new blog post… when I realized that I hadn’t received a single comment on the previous post. That’s pretty rare; I usually get at least one comment on everything. The last time I hadn’t gotten a comment on a post was the summer of 2015, and that’s because I wrote some specific marketing articles that I removed a few weeks later. The last time I wrote an article that didn’t get any comments… May 25, 2010!
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