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The “500 Worst Passwords”

You’ve heard the stories about people choosing terribly obvious passwords for their various computer accounts, such as “password” and “12345”,…

15 years ago

Back to Daylight Saving Time!

I’m in Las Vegas to catch Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, where a lot of big announcements are being made. The combination…

15 years ago

My Chair, My Enemy

“Your chair is your enemy,” starts the New York Times article Stand Up While You Read This! To give you…

15 years ago

Swamped

If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting as many articles to The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the…

15 years ago

It’s a “Portal” Day Today

Today is all about virtual meetings; I’m spending most of it sitting at the home office with a headset microphone…

15 years ago

The Life and Times of Internet Explorer 6

This article’s a bit more technical than the sort that usually appears here on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in…

15 years ago

One Thing I Love About My Job

…is that sometimes, what with all the things that need to be done, all the learning that goes along with…

15 years ago

Montreal Bound

Photo by Tom Purves. I’m boarding a Porter flight bound for Montreal, where I’ll be attending CUSEC (Canadian University Software…

15 years ago

My Presentation at CUSEC 2009: “Squeezeboxes, Start-Ups and Selling Out: A Tech Evangelist’s Story”

Microsoft was a sponsor of CUSEC last year – that’s Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, the premier conference on building…

15 years ago

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun is a cute little video created by Michael Bungay Stanier’s Accordion City-based work-coaching company,…

15 years ago