Focus on one task at a time with Stack Planner
Last week I launched a little side project I've been working on for months. It's called Stack Planner (dot com!) and it's a one-at-a-time task tracking system designed with my own brain and thought process in mind. I figure if I would find it useful, others would too!
Piracy made me buy music, shirts, and concert tickets.
I grew up in the 90's when digital piracy was pretty much the done thing by any tech savvy kid at school. Torrents didn't exist yet, but the amount of "Warez" sites around that published copyrighted music, games and software made it easy. I did have to learn a lot about internet security and it also eventually made me immune to stuff like Goatse (Counterstrike and friends who linkbaited everyone on MSN helped too though) but that's for another post.
I was thinking about it today because probably one of the artists I downloaded the most of was Weird Al, and now as an adult, I own 2 of his CD's, a bunch of tracks through iTunes, I just went to his concert and I bought a t-shirt. I've probably now spent more than his average fan, and it's because I was able to listen to not just one or two tracks for free, but entire albums and crappy radio rips when I was 14. So, who else has a similar story? I'm sure there's other artists I've done a similar thing for, and not just music too - I know that I've bought DVD's based on watching something downloaded freely (pirated or not, e.g. Dr. Horrible's Blog), and bought books from people even though their content is free on their website (ever read this guy's stuff?).
When has pirating something ended up with you owning the same content legally, by choice?
Google launches 2-step Authenticator login for Gmail and other apps
A few days ago Google activated 2-stage authentication on my account, and I jumped at it like an Irken Invader on snacks. I've used gmail since it was invitation only and have amassed quite a lot of important emails in there under various mostly well-organised labels. Things like site registrations, client relationship history, and funny photos of people who shop at Walmart. I want to keep that stuff private ofcourse, and I try to make up passwords that are hard to guess, but who knows how - or when - that password might be compromised? We all do it - immediately after you change a password, you feel bulletproof. Nothing could penetrate your ingeniously clever choice of password where you spelled "password" with dollar signs instead of S's, and added a 1 at the end. Unbreakable.
I maded something for u <3
It's a quick and easy password generator, don't get too excited.
Awesomest stuff on all the internets
Here's some of the best and randomest stuff I've ever found on the internet. I'll even try to organise it by the type of thing it is the most!
Be warned, clicking any links from this page may devour anywhere from hours to entire years of your life!
(Last updated 24th Sept 2010)
I’m working on something.
2 things actually.
I should have more information within a few weeks, but in the meantime, go become a fan of Totalitillion, would ya?
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