Protect your web sites against stupid sociopaths by identifying and blocking brute-force attacks. Use passwords over 12 characters – it doesn’t matter *which* characters. A for-pay password manager such as LastPass greatly enables your security. Avoid user ids of common names like Bob or Admin. “The Bald Wookie” or “Raving Parted Hare” might work.
Category: Editorial
If God can’t find a man, he will find a woman
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
The Original Lockin
A year and ten days. Noah and his close family – 8 persons in all – were locked in for a year and ten days. They couldn’t go to the grocery store, or walk in their back yard, or call a friend to talk. There were no on-line church services or computer games. A year and ten days with his family in a football field sized shoe box full of smelly animals.
Anecdotes of an old dog
We often miss the importance of a customer service person who can truly help us, in spite of ourselves. There was a time, long ago, when Microsoft had the very best people. This is an account of one of those amazing stories where a perceptive Microsoft customer service agent went beyond amazing to help his customer.
THE one thing that brings us to God
It is not the rites and ceremonies of religions that satisfy our most intimate needs, nor do those empower us to help others and win souls. All the religiousness in the world cannot deliver one Muslim from slavery to the hate, poverty, and violence that defines Islam. All the intelligence and Christian philosophy in the world cannot deliver one from the philosophies of the Eastern religions – I have never seen anyone argued into heaven.
Only the love of God can deliver, and it is transferred to us by the Spirit of God during our time spent in communion with him.