10,000ft captchas

Every time I use Gogo inflight, I’m puzzled by their use of captchas. Are hackers bored enough on flights to try to circumvent their authentication system? There are gazillion other and more consumer-friendly ways to solve that problem like introducing progressive increasing cool-off periods after failed login attempts.

They even let you solve a captchas for accessing Delta’s free inflight messaging service which doesn’t require an account. I’m very puzzled by this.

Do not disturb

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Making it easier to follow a lot of blogs

Djoomba: a simple RSS feed aggregator

A while ago, I built Djoomba. It’s a hobby project to solve my own problem. I was looking for a simp…

Who still uses RSS newsreaders right?

Trying something new – RSS to email

There are quite a few blogs I like to follow and I visited them regularly to see if there was an upd…

The new normal for generation Z

Virtual money

My 9-year old son asked me this weekend if we could go to the toy store. I asked him why. He told me…