Thirsty Thursday

Ten Windows Password Myths. I love this page because it debunks a lot of the over-zealous password Nazi myths. The worst myth is that passwords should be changed every 30 days. When I worked at National Semi they were downright insane about passwords. There was one to log on to your windows box, one for your LDAP ID one for the Lotus Notes misery center and a few more for other things. Heck the fitness center wanted to give me an ID and password. They all had different requirements for length and alpha-numeric content and capitalization. Oh yeah, and you had to keep changing the passwords every few months.

I got a couple of buddies to hire in and their first impression of National was that it was password-crazy. National has since addressed this by managing passwords in one place. Before they did, I got so frustrated I took a red marker and wrote all my paswords down on the whiteboard of my office. The IT department just LOVED that.

Oh, why Thirsty Thursday? Well in my
first blog I said I was going to name a theme for every day of the week. My buddy Martin suggested I call my Thursday post Thirsty Thursday. I, for one, hate it. I told Martin this is not a blog for Modern Drunkard magazine. He said: “No, thirsty like thirsty for knowledge.” I think the word jumped into his mind because we were getting hammered at the pizza joint.
Here is a picture of us in full wino mode. Martin is the big guy in the light blue Hawaiian shirt on the right. Also there were Dave I. Anderson from National, Roger Woodward from Summit Micro, Dave McDonald from National, Bill Gross, retired Linear Tech VP, Tim Regan, LT apps manager and Marcello “Big Dog” Salvatierra from National. You can just see the top of Earl Craig’s head—he is over at Semtech. All the way at the left is Kathy Barton, Big Dog's sweetheart.  She just left National. If you are an analog person please stop over and hang out. This is over at the Tasty Subs on Lawrence Expressway near Oakmead. We call it Building T since it always sounds better to a boss when he overhears you saying: “I’ll meet you at Building T at 5:30.”  The boss thinks you are working overtime and in a sense you are. At HP we called it Team-Building. Drinking by yourself is screwing off. Drinking with a co-worker is Team-Building. Yeah Team-Building.

Please help me come up with a better name for Thursday’s post than Thirsty Thursday.