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[deckardcanine]

Last night I got past the 6,000-word mark -- more than a thousand words past my NaNoWriMo quota for today. Better remember to update my account to reflect this.

I doubt I could keep up the pace, and the story is going pretty awkwardly. But I'm starting to think that many great authors felt the same way when they were penning what would turn out to be classics. I just wish sometimes that I could get my hands on a rough draft of theirs; it would give me a sense of potential for mine.

In other news, I changed my obnoxiously long office password yesterday. Have you ever come up with a clever or colorful password and then had the urge to tell it to somebody? It scares me how close I can come to being one of those idiots I laugh at online.

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[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Have you ever come up with a clever or colorful password and then had the urge to tell it to somebody?

Sure. I have couple of really good ones that I'd love to share...

I used to know a sysop that used strong passwords that were totally random, like AjB*tt46!2953zaqd - but he was one of these dudes that could recite "pi" to 3,000 places, so for him it was probably like remembering his middle name. I know I should go through my password list and replace many of them with stronger / unique ones, but I hate having to remember so many. At least I don't use the standard list of "abcdef" or "password".

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

Just avoid dictionary words like the plague (there are only about 30,000 of them, easy to crack) and avoid commonly-guessed passwords like those above and you should be fine. The main conundrum is that the impossible to guess passwords are also frequently impossible to remember.