DataViz!

Just a quick note to brag, Target's been holding a Data Visualization challenge. They provide the data, you go and make with the pretty and insightful. My team? Top 4 of 17 submissions. We're presenting at the big event tomorrow.

As a result, I'm pretty high on data-viz right now, feeling like a pro. Then I stumble upon something like this:

Color Names by Gender

Man, it has everything. It's interactive in all the right ways. The scatter plot is the perfect way to display the gender differences and the sorting buttons at the bottom are the icing on the cake. 

Oh well, I'll keep tryin' and aspirin'.

The Strictest Password Policy (that I've ever seen)

Check out this list of rules for a password:

· Password must not contain the following characters: @&$"
· Password must contain at least 1 special characters.
· Password must contain at least 2 unique characters.
· Password must contain at least 1 lowercase letters.
· Password must contain at least 1 numeric characters.
· Password must be at least 8 characters long.
· Password must contain at least 2 alphabetic characters.
· Password must contain at least 1 alphanumeric characters.
· Password change reminder will be sent 80 days after the last password change.
· Password will expire 90 days after the last password change.
· Password must contain at least 1 uppercase letters.
· Password must not be one of 10 previous passwords.

No joke, this was the list of rules for a server at a previous employer. Apparently, alphanumeric and numeric characters are totally different. Not only do you have to have at least 1 uppercase letter and one lowercase letter, you need two alphabetic characters. Whoa.

Granted, it's probably not the strictest policy in the world - I mean, that's some serious overlap - but man it was crazy to see in production.