This is a chart (below) about the history of pets I’ve had in my lifetime. I currently am left with two dogs, hoping to get a third. I love animals and this chart shows the range of animals I’ve had so far. I’m hoping to also add two bearded dragons to the list. 
This chart below shows how my sleeping patterns have been this week. Not surprising for a typical college student.
Here’s my map!!!
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208689059720442844250.0004d8cec926c8c6ca67c&msa=0
How Long Can We Hold Our Breath?
Purple: My roommate Blue: Me
My roommate and I decided to have a contest to hold our breath. I did a little better than her, but we had similar results.
My computer security practices? Ha! I’ve never thought about how serious the idea of “security” really was until reading these articles. The reason why I started my post off in a mocking type of way towards computer security is because I myself didn’t take it seriously. When setting up my accounts for email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and several other nodes of social networking, I would create passwords that reflected similar ideas or symbolic elements, not even realizing the danger in that practice. Of course at the time I did it out of ignorance; I didn’t know how serious it was to make secure passwords that differ for every account, but even after I had received warnings, I never listened. But after reading these articles, I made it my TOP priority to change EVERY single one of my passwords for all active accounts because I am scared. That’s the truth! I am scared of some ridiculously-intelligent hacker being able to hack into every single one of my accounts just because of my weak computer security practices.
I agree with Dan Goodin in his article, “Why passwords have never been weaker–and crackers have never been stronger” when he says that “The ancient art of password cracking has advanced further in the past five years than it did in the previous several decades combined. At the same time, the dangerous practice of password reuse has surged. The result: security provided by the average password in 2012 has never been weaker.” It’s sad, but true. I bet almost every person has at least once in their life used the same password for a different account somehow, someway. It’s just how the mind “works” I guess you can say. Humans like to make things simple and so because we constantly have so many things going on in our minds, we want to have to remember the least amount of things as much as possible; therefore we create a single password that we can memorize and then we use it for every aspect of our lives so that we can never forget it. Sounds easy right? It is! But the easy way out isn’t always the safest, Nor smartest.
This is PROOF that this is not a smart idea to have a recurring password for every account: My mom needed to use my IPhone, before she got her own, and you know how there’s a passcode lock screen that you have to put every time you want to get into the phone? Right, so I told her my passcode to unlock the screen. Weeks later, I saw some pictures on my Facebook page that I know I didn’t put up, come to find out, my mom “hacked” into my Facebook account with the same passcode from my IPhone and uploaded pictures of her and my niece! THIS IS A WARNING! RECURRING PASSWORDS ARE DANGEROUS!
So I invite any of you who have issues with creating strong passwords to rethink your decisions. Don’t use the same password for every account you can physically own anymore! STOP RIGHT THERE! Just make the choice to practice safe security for not only your computer, but for other things like your SSN as well. Be smart! Be aware! And most of all Be Safe! Security is the way to go!