erudity.net prattlings on via nattering nabobs

31Oct/080

Where I was a year ago

20Oct/080

Rivers Cuomo, You are Weird.

From facebook, of all places:

Since this is Facebook, and it started at Harvard, can anyone help with this quandry? We are trying to locate a female student that was in Rivers’ English 97 Sophomore Writing Tutorial with Professor Nancy Yousef in the Spring of 1997 at Harvard. If anyone remembers the women in this class (or if you were in the class with Rivers), please contact us immediately.

7Oct/080

Quickie zinger from the debates

From my buddy:

Being an naval aviator on a carrier and claiming you know and understand nuclear energy is like living next to Russia and claiming you have foreign experience.

3Oct/080

Password rules

Today at work a website that a buddy frequently uses updated their password criteria and expired his old password.  He had been trying to make a new password for about 45 minutes when I looked at the new critera...

  • Passwords must be changed every 60 days.
  • Passwords must be at least 15 characters long.
  • Passwords can only be changed once in a 24-hour period.
  • Passwords cannot contain English words of 3 or more letters.
  • Passwords cannot have consecutive identical characters.
  • New passwords must differ from the previous password by at least 4 characters.
  • Spaces are not allowed at the end of a password.
  • Passwords must have at least the following:
    • Two or more upper case letters
    • Two or more lower case letters
    • Two or more numeric digits
    • Two or more special characters.

This makes passwords almost impossible to memorize - especially the English word of 3 or more characters part.  Awesome!