The cycle of work-procrastination This might seem rather familiar to you: Sit down to do Thing 1. [Thing 1 is annoying, boring, or intimidating.] “Oh look, a Completely Unrelated Thing!” [Obsessively work on Completely Unrelated Thing until you’re out of time.] And, repeat as needed. But today I found myself doing something rather interesting! I […]
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1983 “War Games” and a history of passwords
In the trivia for the movie “War Games” (1983): “As a result, the industry was forced to make several seemingly obvious changes like creating accounts with default rather than no password on newly installed systems. This is because prior to the film’s release, it was just assumed most computer systems would only be accessed by […]
Salesfolk and inclusive language
A few days ago I posted to LinkedIn: I have successfully replaced “salesman / salesmen” in my vocabulary with “salesfolk”. Not only is it gender-inclusive, but honestly? It’s just a better word. Someone said (in response to this), “Didn’t you folks needlessly name and gender your software packages?” They’re referring to* our Minion Enterprise and […]