Shibboleet, which is the Hebrew word Shibboleth and leet mixed together. In the Bible the Gileadites used this word to distinguish themselves from Ephraimites, who were incapable of pronouncing the word.
One of the best videos I’ve watched all year.
Thanks to Joseph Lanham of Simple Sammy Designs, who knows I’m “Idea A.D.D.”
A new website I’ve never heard of, but subscribed to their RSS feed, http://the99percent.com. I hope to see more great videos like this.
Every 90 days Columbia College (my employer) requires we update our passwords.
I already have a very secure, and easy to remember, password that utilizes capital letters, digits, and special characters.
So I was a bit miffed to be required to change this password which I use several times a day.
Instead of changing the password entirely, I merely appended three special characters to the beginning of my password which the password duplicate checker recognized as different enough to pass as my new password.
However, I keep forgetting to type those extra three characters as I’ve been typing the same password for 3 months now.
Instead of deleting what I typed and starting over, I’ve gotten in the habit of hitting the home key, and adding those extra three characters.
I got to thinking about how this might actually help (albeit slightly) against over the shoulder password stealer’s and potentially key-loggers.
While this is slight, picking a two part password which allows you to type part, then press home and append the remainder, might slightly increase your security.
Key-loggers are going to see the Home or End buttons as separate from your password, and people looking over your shoulder might not notice the extra key stroke and repositioning of the cursor.
Regardless, every little bit does count, and while I will keep doing this unintentionally with my main password for the next 90 days, I might do it intentionally with a few other passwords…
Please share in the comments.
And before someone else gets to flame this post, I’ll do it for them.
Flamer Comment: “ROFL! What a morron! You’re so not 1337! The keylogging software will compensate for this and the idiot looking over your shoulder will notice what you did?!”
Just thought I would get that out of the way. 
Hilariously enough, when I used Google Images searching for a picture of a home key to make the graphic for this post, this image was included in the results:
According to Gawker.com, Google is giving credits to their employees for TaskRabbit which will allow them to get done any odd job.
It’s creepy that I came across this the same day where I did the exact same thing!
Someone was giving me a hard time about something so naturally, I thrust out my chest and proclaimed Care Bear Attack!
Not an hour later xkcd.com’s randomizer brought this to me!
Click to enlarge.
Indexed strikes again with probably one of my favorite illustrations yet.
I’ve written about Indexed before:
Introduction to Indexed & Promise of an Unboaring life!
Another Reason to be a Minimalist: Fire.
There is nothing like fear to spur excitement. Being as it’s October, it’s a prime time to mention this, as people start to visit haunted houses and watch slasher movies.
Try something new.
Drive down a different road (metaphorically or literally).
Do something you normally wouldn’t do.
Live is not in the monotonous, daily tasks you undertake.
Life explodes in the disastrous or terrifying moments.
My Boss: [4:26 PM]:
You have a package in your mailbox up front
Benus, Ellis R. [4:27 PM]:
Is there white dust on it?
My Boss: [4:26 PM]:
you haven’t been here long enough to warrant any anthrax threats
Benus, Ellis R. [4:27 PM]:
lol!
My Boss: [4:27 PM]:
be patient
My Boss: [4:28 PM]:
give it time
Benus, Ellis R. [4:28 PM]:
I have that effect on people.
My Boss: [4:28 PM]:
just start telling the users “no” and you’ll be there before you know it
Benus, Ellis R. [4:28 PM]:
Yeah. Isn’t that your job?
My Boss: [4:28 PM]:
until they anthrax me!
Benus, Ellis R. [4:28 PM]:
LOL!
Indexed strikes again with awesomeness.
And A. G. Buckham backs up the Index with a great quote: “Monotony is the awful reward of the careful.”
Fill yourself with the things of God first and the devil CANNOT fill you with the things of this world. You will be able to walk into the vilest of places, the most sinful areas, deal with the most lost and evil people and maintain your Christ-like perfection!
