Pleasure delaying vs instant gratification

I'm tempted to say it is the same as "old vs new", but I know it's only a quantitative thing. It's not like all of the old generation was for the first and against the latter. As a matter of fact, it is the older generations that willingly devolved their taste towards instant gratification. It's not an overnight invention of the very young, it's just their heritage, what's being left to them. It is our fault.

lifestyle

The only certainty of life

"is death", maintains the weak intellect. Utterly false, as far back as Epicurus: "When we exist death is not, and when death exists we are not" - behold common-sense boiling it down to the obvious disjunction.

philosophy • lifestyle

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010

For the interested parties. here are the Dietary Guideliness for Americans 2010. New recommendations, or strengthening of the old ones. Many useful facts about the things we put into ourselves via our digestive system.

lifestyle

Sony MDR V150 headphones - a bargain

My two year old shitty Creative headset finally gave in, after going through a "mono period" (yes, due to no more sound on the right, I rewired it and it came out all nice, but mono). It was a mic-headphones combo one would use for instant messaging and some gaming, but would be ashamed to admit to actually listening to music through it. May it RIP.

music • gear

Enjoy life

Time for an obvious truth. Enjoy life, for it is extremely short.

lifestyle • modern living

Love and hate

There are only two main ways of looking at things, two lenses: love, or hate. Indifference is not the middle ground, it is merely a way of not looking at things, and it's mostly worse than either love, or hate.

lifestyle • philosophy • self development

Age of doubt

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
Groucho Marx

philosophy • modern living

Hashing

Hashing provides one-way encryption. This means there is absolutely no way of recovering the original string that was hashed, from the hash string. Hashing has a significant ammount of mathematical theory behind it, most of which you needn't know. However, I encourage you to have a read of the relevant Wikipedia articles.

Storing passwords

How to store passwords (of your website's users), you wonder? There has never been a simpler question in website security, with such a straight forward answer:

Strong passwords

Your mighty user authentication mechanism, which you've spent countless hours developing and testing, and is now, theoretically, full-proof, will be rendered useless if you or your users choose to use weak passwords. Hence the need to enforce strong passwords.