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December 29, 2009 
Restrictions on Creating Passwords

I hate passwords. I'm pretty sure everyone does. You create one password that you use for everywhere so you don't forget but you know that it's not very secure.

The other day I had to create a password on a site I will end up using once or twice a year. For this reason I wanted to use a common password of mine but the site only allowed passwords with a length of 6-10 characters and needed to include one number. Well my regular password did not fit this description so I have to make up a new one that I have never used. Now, I guarantee, the next time I go to log in, I won't remember this password because of it's restrictions. Then I will fail to log in and have to create a new password where it will tell me those restrictions again and I will remember what password I probably made for the site. This is why I hate password restrictions like that.

The worst thing I've come across is a site where you have to enter your "pin" as a password. I always spend forever entering in all the number combination I can think of only having to reset my pin, only to find out that your personal identification number can include alpha *and* numeric characters. Awesome.

I also came across this list of passwords twitter doesn't let you use because they are too common. My favorites: computer, hooters, marlboro, qwerty, thx1138, and the ever classy trustno1

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Posted by Mark at 12/29/2009 04:29:00 PM 3


July 16, 2008 
Three Months Late

Today Google added some new template options to Google Docs including a slew of helper worksheets for wedding planning. Actually jsut browsing through all of the new templates, I can see that these might be really useful (like huge widgets), but that is another post.

When Sara and I were getting married, we ended up doing 99% of our planning using Google Docs and it worked out really great. We always had out lists with us (invite list, attendance list, budget, gifts recieved, etc) and we could easily share those lists with other people who needed them (parents adding in guest's addresses, sub-lists for bacholer/ette parties, etc). They were always up to date, and were supprisingly easy to use. Google had made a lot of improvements to spreadsheets from when we had been trying to use them for househunting which at that point, they were unusable.

I am a huge fan of the Google Docs, and recommend using them especially if more than one person will ever be viewing or collaborating on a doc with you. With the new templates too, I think they are turning into something really simple and useful.


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