If only the government or the media reporting on this could be this clear…

Visit this site and it will automatically generate a card with symbols for columns and colors for rows with randomly-generated digits on it.  You can then use this card to generate very strong passwords that you don’t have to remember.  And no bad guy can guess them and even if they get a copy of your card, they won’t know which subset of the random characters are your password so it provides protection against a physical attack on your wallet.

I came across the dumbest code I’ve seen in a while at work today.

The really cool thing is that the whole graphic is backed by a google doc spreadsheet that is chock full with explicit references to back up the claims.  My wife of course asked where they got the data – and you can actually check it out (you don’t have to take their word for it).  This is a graphical representation of the “Alternative” medicine trash heap I blogged about previously.

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I had this intermittent problem with my mouse in a VM until I realized it had been converted from a Virtual PC image long ago.  That still left some mouse driver hooks that were breaking the VMWare mouse driver.  Thank goodness for keyboard shortcuts and thank goodness I still know them…  The fix is here:

Actually, the lack of a letter “s”.

Excellent way to get data on just about anything and good graphs to visualize the balance of nutrients to fat.

Bank of America nicely summarized some of the major changes coming due tot he Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure (CARD) Act.  In short, your credit card company can’t be so much of a money-grubbing bastard anymore.  Although there are so many avenues not closed by this act, they actually still can be pretty evil.  For example, there is no regulation preventing credit card companies from charging whatever they want for interest rates.

Best to have a kid get a cold here or there to reduce the chance of higher inflammation as adults and protect them from cardiovascular diseases.  We were just talking about this…