Dominik’s Journey ;-)

When it comes to internet security, good passwords and “easy to remember” have always been at odds. As soon as you need to write down your password on a cheat sheet, it’s not really a good password (anymore).

So, how can you create unique passwords for the different websites, easy to remember and still secure enough so that standard dictionary attacks can’t break them ?

Tada, enter your individual “smart password generator” !

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Well, so I haven’t posted here for a while. Too busy with other stuff, I guess.

But to give this post at least some original content, I want to give you some piece of advice. This comes straight from the higher ranks of the company I work for, so it’s gotta be true ;-)

“You have to manage it, or get out of the kitchen !”

LOL, and I thought I was confused.

Wanna know where you come from ? Ha, good luck. This won’t tell you. But it will tell you where the 20 guys come from that I paid off to visit my site.

I finally decided to give WordPress 2.0 a chance. So while I’m switching and testing, some things might be a little "out-of-order". Just check back a little later. Cheers.

Update: Everything seems to be working now.

I learned about a plugin that creates a nice eye-candy effects for pictures. It’s called Wetfloor. Here some examples of what it does:

The effect is based on the javascript reflections.js. :-)

In case you are (like me) always looking for a bargain online, check out the following websites. They list daily specials, mainly for electronics, but also for other useful household stuff.

Classic one-deal-per-day site: http://www.woot.com/

Good mixed deals, not only electronics: http://www.passwird.com/

Another good site: http://www.spoofee.com/

An one more: http://www.dealnews.com/

In case you still have money left: http://www.bensbargains.net/

Ok, I’m officially annoyed. I got more than 20 spam comments for cell phones in the last 48 hours. What the heck ? Gotta find some way to make posting comments a little harder. Sorry folks, but I’m just not in the mood of moderating all that crap…

Update:

Just installed Spam Karma.
Looks like a very capable piece of spam catcher for blogs. Let’s hope it works well.

Update 2:

I now also installed Aksimet, in addition to Spam Karma. There is a neat little plug-in that lets you combine both. Read about it here.

Update 3:

7 days later: 275 spam caught, none slipped through. Spam Karma2 with Aksimet works great.

A friend of mine complaint that my ‘blog’ is so inactive. Also, she said my picture looks like a mug shot. Maybe I should have told her… :-/
Well, I pointed out to her that this is not really a blog, and not a diary at all. Nonetheless, I thought I proof her wrong and post something real bloggy. So this is it. Nothing to see here folks, movin’ right along ;-)

Oh, I almost forgot. WOOT ! First post this year. *Sigh* I’m just too busy.

Due to popular demand (hi Roy and Tabitha ;-), here the recipe for German-style meatballs.
In Germany, they are called Buletten, Fleischplanzerl, Hackbällchen or Frikadellen, depending on what region you come from. So here it goes:

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After looking for ages to find a QT version of the SNL skit, I finally converted it myself.

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