Posts Tagged ‘identity’

Blog Action Day: You the Consumer

Today is Blog Action Day, and over 14,000 blogs have agreed to write about the environment. Since I expect there to be hundreds of “how to” articles about making your own household cleaners and cutting your gas consumption, I decided to try something else, to try to address the framework in which we as individuals relate to our environment.

Most of the environmental destruction… » Continue

October 15 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogactionday, consumption, environment, identity, Lifestyle, sustainable | 40 comments»

Why being yourself matters

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice…it is conformity.”
~ Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself.

There will never be anyone else like you in the future of the universe. There has never been anyone exactly like you since human life began. That’s why being yourself is more important than anything else; certainly more than the fear that traps people into conforming.

Non-conformists have always… » Continue

August 27 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: identity, life | 56 comments»

How To Create Strong Passwords You’ll Remember

If you like the idea of using strong passwords that are hard as nails to crack, but fall apart trying to remember numbers and symbols - like me - here are some tips that could save you your next identity theft.

This method works by creating meanings for symbols:

! excitement, strong emotion
@ the letter A, the word “at”
# number, pound, tic-tac-toe
$ money, value, the letter S
% a part of something
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June 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: identity, password, protection | 22 comments»

Protect your identity like it’s your home

“…Most people have a good idea of how to protect their houses from burglars, but few know the best ways to protect their identity and prevent identity theft.” Money for the Rest of Us has a fantastic article that draws parallels between protecting your identity from identity thieves and protecting your home from robbers.

Don’t open your door for just anyone. You wouldn’t let just anyone… » Continue

March 1 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: identity, Money, protection | 1 comment»