Archive of past Gleanings newsletter. Gleanings is a slightly irregular newsletter of webdesign. If you haven't visited lately, check it out. The big lie of computer security is that security improves by imposing complex passwords on users. In real life, people write down anything they can't remember.
Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually behave.
This is a day that's set aside to encourage people to think carefully about what they spend their money on. That is, quite simply, that online consumers, tired of being ignored by the companies they'd like to do business with, are talking to each other in ever-increasing numbers. America's grip on ecommerce market slipping The US ecommerce sector is often looked on as the leading light of the digital economy, but a survey released last week revealed that Internet users in several countries were more likely than US users to buy certain goods online. The upside is that I managed not to stuff myself, and here's hoping if y'all did, at least it wasn't with something beige. Also, my blog wasn't getting updated because of a blogger bug.