Goodness gracious, Facebook! What’s next!? It’s getting to the point where you almost need a full time staff to keep up with all the stuff that just keeps coming out. Seems like it’s almost daily.

In light of the recent black mark on the social media behemoth’s record, please remember this folks. Never ever, ever use the same password when you’re doing anything online. Most importantly, do not use the same password that you created for Facebook on any other online service, especially anything containing sensitive personal or financial information.

Also remember, whenever you install an app that requires a login, refrain from using your Facebook login as the option for creating a new account. Especially, once again, if it’s something that deals with personal or financial information. Never use Facebook as your login vehicle. Now if it’s just some silly game, sure – if you want to go ahead and do that if you’re one who likes to share your progress on games. If it asks you for Facebook login, and if that’s your thing, go ahead and do it. But please remember – any game that contains in-app purchases is going to require you to enter some sort of financial information at some point or another. Keep in mind that anything you’re using Facebook to log in with Facebook is grabbing that information.

Facebook aside, if you have used the same password over and over again for online accounts, (and unfortunately a lot of people do this, because it’s easier to remember those passwords) and that password is also the password you use for logging into Facebook, go to those online accounts and change those passwords immediately. Changing your Facebook password at this point is not effective.

Security experts agree that the use of passwords is no longer an affective security model. But until the day comes where more widely available alternatives become the norm, it’s important to always be aware and take some simple tactical steps:

1. As mentioned, don’t use the same password for everything you log into. The problem is if one of those logins gets compromised, any of your other accounts will be more easily accessible.

2. Never use social media passwords for logging into more important services pertaining to your personal or financial information.

3. Always use the strongest passwords possible. Although you may think you can think of strong, unique passwords, studies have shown that as humans we all inevitably tend to follow patterns. As such, consider using a password tool like LastPass that randomly generates strong passwords and manages them all for you.

For the most part, I suggest the same thing when it comes to social media – keep it social. Refrain from giving Facebook or any other social media outlet anything that you wouldn’t stand on a street corner and announce over a bullhorn. Because the fact of the matter is, what happens online can be far more damaging

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Like pretty much every form of music, there will always be a special place in my heart for Disco. In fact, I’ll never understand dismissive behavior of music of any kind by  purists in general.

Thing is, when I listen to classics like this one from The Brothers Gibb (better known as The Bee Gees), I hear a perfected arrangement with beautifully crafted orchestration.

Speaking of which, it’s almost sad to me that The Bee Gees will always be remembered for this because the fact is the sheer volume of music these boys wrote and produced is quite frankly mind blowing! Even well before they reached the “Saturday Night Fever” point in history.

But I digress… I’m just thankful that I was born with the gift of being able to appreciate and truly enjoy great music with being bound by the constraints of so-called “real music” rules. There is so much great music to be missed by living under those rules.

I just don’t get it. I just don’t get why the DC cinematic universe simply can’t seem to deliver. There simply hasn’t been what I would consider any “must – sees” since Christopher Nolan’s Batman / Dark Knight series. Those were quite frankly the best of the best. And I thoroughly enjoyed 2013’s Man Of Steel.

Aquaman has gotten much acclaim, attention, and fanfare. But sadly I believe it has more to do with Jason Mamoa than the actual movie itself.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite Saturday morning cartoons was The Super Friends. Back then, me and my brothers and friends considered Aquaman to be the corniest of the bunch. Big muscles, and over-the-top CGI can’t help escape that stigma in a movie with such half-baked dialogue and a far too predictable plot.

To its credit, there are some pretty great fight sequences that are excellently timed and filmed.

But there is hope – even though the end sequence was just as predictable as the rest of the plot, a thoughtful development of the Black Mantis character could make for an intriguing follow up.

Unfortunately for me, this was another 2 1/2 hour DC miss.

Proud Papa Moment!!

Excited and proud that Fei has officially landed her first job! She has been wanting to get a job for some time, and has been looking and applying.

But she got this job simply by being herself while ordering food at our foster son’s birthday party.

Louie has always been one of my favorite funny guys – I even loved his animated series “Life With Louie”!

Here is one of my favorite bits. I just told Fei about this because she was struggling with a “meat tooth” ! 😂

Thank you to all of our family and friends who are able to come and share this very special day with us!

Hopefully we will get a copy of the video from the stage – will share later if we do!

In relation to my post on the 27th.
So it looks like Google is indeed disabling comments on videos containing minors (they’ve already done a massive sweep). In light of what’s been going on, I think this is the most logical step. –

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