Claire's Random Thoughts

Perhaps you want to hack into your enemy’s email account and send an email to his girlfriend telling her he wants to break up;) Perhaps you just wish to keep your online accounts secure. Either way, here are the top 10 most common passwords. I highly suggest against using any of these, especially for anything important. Yes, there are people who are bored enough to try to guess passwords.

*I’m not promoting hacking into somebody else’s account

password – Well, this is an obvious one for someone who isn’t very creative
123456 – A classical first password for beginners

qwerty – Lazy? Just hit some keys that are conveniently next to each other
abc123 – A little better than 123456 but still unoriginal and guessable

letmein – I’m not too sure about this one, but it is on the list

monkey – A very popular instinctual password if you just try to think of a random word

myspace1 – Common password for myspace where you have to have at least one number and letter in a password

password1 – Need a number in the password? Just add 1 after your unoriginal one.

blink182 – I’m not too sure about this one either, but somehow it’s also on the list. They’re fairly well-known, but probably not the first band that comes to mind.

Whatever your first name is – Well, this one should be obvious to avoid

This blog seems a little dead, doesn’t it. In addition to that, I have forgotten that this was originally a personal blog. Anyway, some blogthings:)

You Are 65% Feminist

You are certainly a feminist – whether you know it or not. You believe in gender equality, at least most of the time. You also believe there are a few exceptions.

Yes, I guess this sounds like me. I actually agree with this blogthing, unlike many of the other ones that I have tried. There are some things intended for men, such as proposing, paying for dinner;), etc.

Your Mind is 75% Cluttered

Your mind is quite cluttered. And like most clutter, it’s a bunch of crap you don’t need. Try writing down your worst problems and fears. And then put them out of your mind for a while.

Yes, my mind is cluttered thinking about nonsense to the point in which I can’t distinguish important from obsolete nor pay attention when I’m supposed. Maybe I need to see a hypnotist to clear up my head (shh, not a word to my parents)

You Are Not a Cheapskate

When it comes to money, you’re very fair. You’re generous when you can be, and you never cheat anyone out of what they deserve. If you have the money, you enjoy splurging. But you never overspend.

This seems somewhat accurate too. I seem to be the one who calculates everything very carefully making sure not to rip myself off, but I don’t cheat people out of money either. I think these blogthings are becoming more accurate.Ok, enough. I was just bored.

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From a joomla sample news item

Did anyone actually have trouble reading this? I know that I didn’t. Maybe this is part of the reason why we could read something many times but still not be able to spell it.

Wow, it’s been a while since my last update. From now on, I think I’ll slow down to the pace of a normal blog. Just one post every couple days.

You may have heard of the term lifetime email. A lifetime email is an email alias that forwards to whatever email you want. For example, if I have a lifetime email, name@domain.com and people send something to it, the actual emails that they send will go to whatever “real” email account I choose, may it be gmail, yahoo, whatever.

The purpose of this is so that if I decide to switch to a different email provider, I can just change the forwarding location of the lifetime email and do not have to go through the hassle of telling everyone that I have changed my email. It’s easy to change your “real” email frequently but still be able to receive all old mail. Most universities offer it to their alumni, so everyone can keep in touch with former classmates forever, but you can also get one for free from www.fanmail.com.

A company called pobox has a service like this, but they charge for it. There are also several other free lifetime email services, but they usually put tags on the end of your emails or sell your address to spammers. So far, fanmail is the best one that I’ve found, because they do not put ads on your emails, nor do they sell your address.

Fanmail allows visitors to create a free lifetime email that can be customized to any one of their dozens of domains. If you love a particular sports team, then this is more than perfect for you, because their domains have primarily a sports theme. If you look hard enough, you could find a couple that seem generic. If you use one at national-champs.com (that’s the one I use), for example, very few people would associate it with sports.

Just a little tip: be careful who you give your lifetime email to, if you decide to create one. You keep all the messages that get sent to it forever, but that means you also keep the spam. I recommend giving the lifetime email address to friends or using it to sign up for things that you can trust. Give everyone else who might spam you your real email addres (@gmail.com @yahoo.com @hotmail.com, whatever). That way, if you get spammed, you can just move to a different email address and change the forwarding location. That way, you keep all the real mail, but all the spam stays in the old email account.

Some of the more advanced code from this quiz isn’t compatible with blogs. I’ll just post screenshots of my results. If anyone wants to take it, then it’s at http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

I’m not that bad of a person, am I? I got much better of a score than I was expecting, because I really thought I was more guilty than Level 1 where there is supposedly no punishment. What I’m kind of worried about, however, is level 8 of hell. My score also seems to be high in that area, so does that mean I would end up here? Who am I kidding anyway? Dante’s Inferno was simply made up by Dante Alighieri. Why do so many people actually believe in this place that he just created?