As I’ve used Twitter more, I’ve noticed how many of the shared URLs are shortened. And to think that the Library of Congress is archiving all US tweets, how many will actually be usable at some point in the future? Hopefully their process logs the resolved actual URL instead of the shortened one. When I restored my blog, it was amazing how many broken links I found. I stopped fixing them. That’s just the regular web. Adding URL shortening is another level of indirection that is also another failure point.

I searched and didn’t find a Seattle-specific Information Security calendar showing not only conferences, but smaller security events.  So I created a new public one.  And I guess that means now I’m maintaining one ;-)

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How clever.  I just noticed this today.

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I’ve had it on my TODO list to resurrect my blog posts and import into Blogger and finally started doing it.  So, you’ll see lots of former posts coming back.  I’m trying to review each one and clean up any formatting issues or easy to fix broken links or images.

I’ve been taken aback lately by a variety of claims on blogs and twitter of someone “harassing” someone else or “stalking” them.  People seem to throw these words out so cavalierly that they are in serious danger of being devalued; watered down so that they have no substantive meaning.

I used to have a blog.  I used to opine in it.  Oh those days of yesteryear before kids when I had such luxuries of time…  I let my blog languish.  It devolved into my personal bookmark tool.  It didn’t have a good focus.  It was called “Juxtaposition”, after all, which is by its nature not focused.  I had a missed opportunity to call it “Jaxtaposition” since my network handle was often “jaxley” – a kind of portmanteau of my name.  But I have even found since then that neither were as unique or compelling as I had thought.

From the book 59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman, this is a list of writing topics that you can do over the course of a week – spending just 59 seconds each day – to cultivate happiness. And each activity is backed by actual scientific research.

Ugh. Came out this morning to my car in my driveway to go downtown and found both right-side windows rolled down. Hmmm… I didn’t do that. Go around to the driver’s side and both of _those_ are rolled down too. Grrr.