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If your idea of a smart password is your first car followed by your mother’s name, you need to get with the program. Hackers have recently stung Fox News (NWS) and Apple (AAPL), the International Monetary Fund, Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Gmail (GOOG): How can you expect to protect yourself with lazy wordplay?

DailyFinance offers this guide to create secure but easy-to-remember passwords before the cyber-nasties get your personal information and ruin you. Full Article…

The news was yet another encouraging sign for Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest. Also Wednesday, the benchmark 225 Stock Average closed at 10,082.48, thus breaching the psychologically important 10,000 level and putting it back near its pre-tsunami levels.

Yesterday, while working on a propane grill, I cut my finger badly enough that a piece of it was actually removed from my finger. It hurt intensely and it’s left me in a state where I can’t type normally.

In other words, if you find that I miss a post or two in the next week or two, that’s probably the reason why.

What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking and Sacred Space I try to give myself an hour of downtime each day for preparation for my work. Sometimes, it’s difficult to find that time, but I’m always glad when I do. I usually come up with my best ideas during that hour of focused downtime. (@ the 99

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This is our first Homer Glen 4th of July. We moved here last August from Oak Lawn, IL. Oak Lawn had a great Independence Day parade that we could walk to and enjoy. But to see fireworks, we’d need to drive to one of the areas, usually a local high school field, to view the professional fireworks display. There was plenty of local noise makers, and our alley would be a mess the following day.

We learned that things were much different in Homer Glen. As we were driving home from my son’s house where we had a bar-b-q during the day, we could see fireworks in all directions on our 7 minute drive from their Homer Glen home to ours.

When we arrived home, we saw our neighbors sitting in their chairs at the end of their driveway, watching the display right from their own home.

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It’s that time of the quarter again. Corporate bean counters are tallying up their company financials through the three months ending in June. Investor relations departments are squaring away the logistics for the upcoming conference calls. Investors are biting their nails, hoping that their companies don’t blow it.

Relax.

Odds are that your company will come out on top on the bottom line. I’m not just offering up hollow words of encouragement. Full Article…