This is my new blog space. My old blog is still available, but due to some account changes with Google, I chose to move my blog around to a new Google user-id. [Update]: Ha! Technically, I just figured out how to import my old blog into this one. So, now everything is all in one place.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2003079,00.html I read the article above*, and couldn't help but notice that this was the very same analysis that so many had about the Green Party during the G.W.Bush years. The whole idea, then, was that the Green party, by both attracting Democrats, and then also endorsing occasional bat-shit-crazy candidates basically imploded the realistic chances of either party. *The Headline is different in the print edition: Mark Halperin's Take: How the Tea Party Is a Mixed Blessing
It's raining in St. Paul today. I had an overnight guest, family of a friend*, who was planning to get into work early, and didn't quite make it in early. To put it lightly, my overnight guest had a really bad morning. I got up just in time to see her off, and decided to make some eggs as she left. I just finished making breakfast when I got the phone call....
It never used to bother me, but now it does. Every time I hear about one of those laptops stolen with secrets, but "no secure password", I believe that corporate password retention policies are to blame. I have now come to the point, where I work, that the various password systems, with their vastly different password policies, have collided to make it impossible for me to keep up anymore. I will now be one of the countless hoardes that puts my passwords on a sticky note above my notebook's keyboard....