One of the main problems I see with a lot of this kind of advice is that we’re also told to regularly change passwords as good security practice or because of breaches. Even using a password manager, if I change the master password how many other manual things do I need to update too?

I grew up on the original and have watched the reboot. Maybe I was too young back then to notice details, but I don’t see much difference in the characters. The performances need to hit their groove still, but if a working class family stayed about the same (easily done with recent trends) this is what I’d expect to…

I professionally manage records/data/papers and my greatest joy is actually deleting and shredding. I think it comes from how much work I know goes into preserving long-term (a ton). It’s not worth the resources to keep everything. I know Gmail seems unlimited but 50 years from now? What will it all (services,…

You can build on the power of labels for this. We have Google Apps at work where we are expected to manage email correspondence including deleting non-permanent. I handle this by labeling before sending new messages or replies and anything that leaves the inbox. At regular intervals or as I choose I can do a search…

Vox put this into a pretty nice video too:

Just saw this, guessing it was matching an email address. I use a slightly modified version which helps me spot the source of spam or ads. Some of the companies I thought I might have used login with FB in the past.

As I replied to someone below, ethnicity estimates are not comparisons to other test takers. While always an estimate, it’s a comparison with a living reference population with several generations in the same place.

I saw that one too. Did a search and found out it was a mismatched fingerprint between an Oregon lawyer and the investigation into the Madrid terrorist bombing. This might be the episode in question:

Those tests are notoriously unreliable and are based on comparing samples to DNA they already have in their database, which is not a representative/proportionate sample of the world’s population.

I hope this generational tendency continues to fade away.

BYU has this online service called Relative Finder, it uses data from FamilySearch.org. Our ward created a (password-proctected) group account and I was at least 5th cousins with several dozen people.

I get to qualify from pioneer stock, but it took befriending Mormons who grew up in other states to see how skewed my point of view was.

What needs to happen is to remove the identification that is available with license plates. Yes, they should identify a vehicle registration so that can be checked for status, and only for that. But the ability to identify a person from that registration should only be available to very limited set of authorities.…

So weirdly I don’t think I’ve ever had the flu (I know!). Flu shots also were not a thing for my family growing up. Basically it wasn’t until thirtysomething that I started doing it anyway to prevent passing anything along, now every year.

I love movies and briefly entertained the notion of doing something related as a job. I was also naive and didn’t have much experience, but without a major yet I did get all the way to a meeting in the film studies department with a tour. I ended up going in a history direction (still took two more film history…

I’ve heard her speak and her book that uses the now-famous line is really an excellent narrative of women in history. I also think this is why I like genealogy so much. I almost enjoy the challenge of finding the stories behind boring record forms and headstones.

Yeah I used to love Portland as a gentler version of Seattle, but visiting this last summer and really spending time downtown instead of my relative’s suburban places was a bit of a letdown. I’ll still visit the PNW for any reason, but with some adjustments.

Oh I forgot about the Klondike in another post, it’s great! I was amused at how existing just one door meant you were leaving the “park.” Great exhibits about an interesting part of history.

I had a graduate residency at the University of Washington so I visited 7 times in 3 years—not really a resident but more than a one-time tourist. As much as the class schedule allowed, I think I tried everything. First, I explored the UW campus which is beautiful and compact. The old gothic architecture is sublime,…

Quite fun! Visiting a few years ago I ended up in a hotel along its route (I could have waved to passengers from my window). At least once I walked to the one end and took it into downtown, just because. I also rather liked the park there by the Space Needle. It was a summer and the kids were loving the water fountain…