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t he short version, before the cat: a password strength meter measures how a string looks, not how it was made. If your secret was derived from something short, no amount of symbols and capital letters makes it harder to guess — and in Bitcoin, that...
Petra Day: The same kilometers as yesterday, but the walking time was shorter. The effort was greater, as after the walk, there was a quick trip to Aqaba, and some decent relaxation. Monuments are monuments, but there are many beautiful places in...
Music was always around me. I just never really listened. For years it played in the background of my life, and I never gave it much attention. Then there came a time when I was down and frustrated, and I started to listen. Not just hear it, but actu...
i wrote this piece about a few months back describing how some of my mornings looked like as a university student. Small, honest slices of the last couple of days — nothing more than that. July 20th What a morning. Sleeping at two and having to wake...
This month is turning out to be nasty; it has been difficult, challenging and frankly I am fed up with it. The thermometer and heat is representative of my mood! Yeah - this one is going to be a bit of a rant GRRR! Let me start at the beginning. Y...
A Gallup poll shows that only 54% of Americans consume alcohol. This is a clear sign of how a massive $1.5 trillion industry is facing serious challenges as generational attitudes continue to change. According to Gallup's historical data covering th...
Before you settle in, give yourself a little time for this one. “Grade Seven: I Ran Away From Home, but I Took My Money Mindset With Me” is a personal story about survival, unexpected kindness and learning to see my own worth. It’s the kind of read y...
When we start taking anything in excess in our life, we have to see its bad consequences. If you consume anything in limits then you get benefit from it, if you increase the quantity of anything then you will have to see its harm, if you consume alco...
I do not want to be a scaremonger or to create any sense of fatalistic fear in anybody, but it is noticeable, certainly in Warsaw, attempt by the authorities to raise public awareness and readiness in the event of war with Russia. We have been led t...
I yearn to see you, you whose heart is harder than stone, In your eyes, I saw God more clearly than in my own heart alone. You left, and now my nights no longer know the dawn, My weary heart can bear no more of this sorrow carried on. You are...
