As a quick tag update, I’ve finished tagging and recategorising about 30% of the former posts. I figured it would be a tedious process (and it is), but it is also fun to read some of the older posts, and reminisce about those times. Also, I never had all that much of a problem with …
Category: Technology
May 11 2012
New blog
After giving it a significant amount of thought, I finally decided to switch my blog from Serendipity (s9y) to WP. The administrative backend is nicely polished, and highly extensible. The problem that pushed me to make the jump was that I started getting the dreaded “No data received” error at seemingly random times. After trying …
Mar 31 2012
Equifax sends passwords insecurely in plain text leading to potential identity theft
The credit bureau Equifax claims to take various precautions regarding their customers’ personal information, and attempts to combat identity theft. However, if you ever need to contact their customer service for any reason (being locked out of your account, resetting your password, et cetera), they will send you your password in plain text. You might …
Thought for the Moment
