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Coffee and Passwords?!

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  Sips from IT Coffee and Passwords must be Strong! Like coffee, passwords must be strong!  What is a strong password?  For that matter, what is strong coffee?  Let’s check out some comparisons of both. Strong Coffee:   You need at least 14 scoops per pot, minimum! Strong Passwords:   You need at least 14 characters per password, minimum! Strong Coffee:   Requires fewer cups per day  Strong Passwords:   Requires fewer password changes per year Strong Coffee:   14 - 24 oz. a day can actually be good for you Strong Passwords: 14 - 24 characters per password can actually be good for you Strong Coffee:   Can become habitual if used every day Strong Passwords:   Should become habitual and used every day Strong Coffee: Protects others from you Strong Passwords:   Protects you from others Strong Coffee:   Mixing in creamer/sugar makes it harder to drink Strong Passwords:   Mixing in caps/numbers/special characters makes it harder to crack Remember that it is very important to make your pass
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Opportunities...

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Photo by Razvan Chisu on Unsplash What Do I Do With My Opportunities... What do I do with my opportunities? I haven't always owned them.  Many times there have been opportunities and I let them go.  I don't know why.  However, when I look at the place I am in life and look back at the big decisions in life, I'm thankful for those opportunities I seized. I've mentioned in a previous post that I believe in God and I seek His guidance in all of my life's decisions.  So sometimes, unseized opportunities were because of that.  Right now, in my life, I have been given the opportunity to launch the next phase of my career and to do it very successfully. And I owe it to a "missed" opportunity.  I hadn't thought about it much as this new opportunity has unfolded until tonight.  It hit me like a ton of bricks. Let's back up about 17 years.  I was working side by side with a colleague doing the same job.  I had 8 years experience in my field of work and he h
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The perfect laptop?

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  Did I just find the perfect laptop? I've been on a crusade the last couple of months trying to find a laptop that has excellent battery life (priority #1), compact in size (no more than 14"), and powerful enough to satisfy the geek in me.   Back in October of 2020, Best Buy ran a sale on the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14.  It is a high powered 14" laptop that has gotten rave reviews.  BB had the base model on sale for $899.  It had the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H CPU and a GTX 1650Ti GPU.  I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB myself and it came with a 512 GB M.2 NVMe SSD.  When I first powered it up and got it set up, I thought I'd hit the jackpot.  It was definitely a high powered machine and I knew it would tackle anything I had to throw at it.  It also had fantastic battery life for a machine that powerful.  I was able to get almost 8 hours of internet surfing, some word processing and a bit of video streaming.  I decided to use it for an online meeting and when I fired up Teams, I had no
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Oof

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  Writer's block? This is tougher than I thought it would be.  As I pointed out in my first blog, I can write if I can think of a topic that piques my interest.  I keep this page loaded in my browser tabs so I see it often and I sit and ponder on what to write next.  I'm blank!  :) I should probably stop worrying about what other's will find interesting since I doubt this will even get seen by anyone, and just write about the little things in my life.  Maybe that would help get the ball rolling.  The creative juices flowing.  The gears grinding... Anyway, I figured this was a bit of a kickstart again.  Just get something down.  A reminder to myself to put a bit more time into this instead of wasting it on my phone.  :P Hopefully more to come, sooner than later! Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash
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Why are we so selfish?

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Do we really love our neighbor? The first thing I want to say...  This isn't a "one size fits all" opinion about man.  There are a LOT of kind people out there in the world that do a lot for their fellow man. The second thing I want to say... When I say "man", I don't mean a male, I mean mankind, humans, homo sapiens. Now, on to the thoughts that weigh heavy on my heart. Why are we so selfish?  Why do we think instant gratification, being the best (or the worst), being better than the Jones's, and all those other cliches are going to bring us happiness?  We live in a very self serving world and we are encouraged by the mainstream media and many of the rich and famous to take care of ourselves first and worry about everyone else never again.  But look around... tell me that it's a happy world around us?  We're not made to be selfish.  Our human nature tells us it's the right thing to do, but it does not lead to internal joy and peace.  Try doi
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Blah Blah Blog

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Photo by  Nick Morrison  on  Unsplash To blog or not to blog, that is the question. I used to be pretty good at writing.  I'm great at typing.  Combine those and I should be an okay blogger, write?  ;) I aced the essay portion of my senior English class.  I promptly bombed the poetry portion.  It was an honor class, labeled as "College English".  It was supposed to give me credit toward my first year in college.  That's what they told me to convince me to take it.  What they didn't know is that I knew it was only 3 days a week and that would free up some of my days.  SIGN ME UP! We had 2 semesters, 2 subjects.  Essay writing and poetry.  I'm a left brainer.  Think about having a bit of creativity and coming up with some cool ideas in life.  I haven't had any of those moments in my life.  I live almost completely over there on the left side of the brain.  I look back and believe this is why I aced the essay part and failed the poetry part.  Essays are struc
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