How do you do it? I’ve got my rotating set of 4-5 passwords, one or two of which I try to use only in secure places, but it does get complicated when you need to remember one months later. We’re all still human.

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For over two years, I’ve managed — first indirectly, then directly — CNET News.com Investor and a corresponding private-label financial website (and print) business, known internally as “Private Wires.” After several months of work, I’m pleased that our new arrangement has been publicly announced. CNET sold the private label business to Financial Content. In a…

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Long review on a recent Nielsen/Norman Group report. I’m going to read this now. I already know I would love to read/hear Jakob’s response.

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I don’t know if it is coincidental or not, but Tim Bray decided to write about metadata just days after Christopher Lydon’s interview with David Sifry, in which Sifry, too, spoke eloquently about the power of metadata. Bray hits a few notes I know from bitter experience, too. Historically, the difficulty of collecting metadata at…

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Tim Howard is going to be one of the Manchester United goalkeepers. The NYTimes article mentions how Kasey Kellar and Brad Friedel paved the way. Friedel was named the best keeper in the English Premier League for last season. He was a high-school classmate of one of my best friends, and my wife was a…

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I must have seen this linked on at least five blogs I read via NNW. So why not add to the fun? BBC: Loss of e-mail ‘worse than divorce’ Not scientific (800 techies), and not accurate (sponsored by Veritas, in an effort to sell more email backup software), but even the BBC knows how to…

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It must have been amusing to write this CNN/Money story: “Nudity takes off“. My favorite quote? Cost for a suite: $2,500 per week, including tax but not sun screen.

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I shared this plumbing story with two colleagues at work today. I’m glad to read that all’s well that ends well. Not my cup of tea.

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OK. Fluff movie, I admit. I saw the first one, and was mildly amused. Rumors were that the second Tomb Raider movie was better than the first. Not exactly high standards, but I needed a break from a Sunday evening at the office. Film was about what I expected, but I did not expect to…

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Saw a preview last night for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, a movie coming in November. As far as I know, this is the first Aubrey-Maturin motion picture made, but I’m quite willing (eager, even) to be enlightened. Russell Crowe is starring as Lucky Jack. I don’t recognize the actor playing…

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