Author Archives: Mark
Alan Sepinwall on the origins of Lost
Abrams told Braun that there wasnt quite enough there for a series, but suggested that “The island has to be a character in the show, and somethings wrong with the island.” Braun agreed, so long as Abrams promised to keep things in the realm of “scientific fact” and have an explanation for everything.
Do you know this guy?
How to Live Without Irony
Irony is the most self-defensive mode, as it allows a person to dodge responsibility for his or her choices, aesthetic and otherwise. To live ironically is to hide in public. It is flagrantly indirect, a form of subterfuge, which means etymologically to “secretly flee” (subter + fuge). Somehow, directness has become unbearable to us.
Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore
Eventually, as the number of epic hacks increased, we started to lean on a curious psychological crutch: the notion of the “strong” password. It’s the compromise that growing web companies came up with to keep people signing up and entrusting data to their sites. It’s the Band-Aid that’s now being washed away in a river of blood.
via Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore | Wired.com.
Javascript Territory – Jster Javascript Catalog
Javascript Territory – Jster Javascript Catalog
JSter is a community-driven catalog of the most useful javascript libraries. Find the right tool for a work and do it effectively.
DocRead – Policy Management Software for SharePoint
Policy Management Software for SharePoint
DocRead is policy management software for SharePoint that helps target policies and procedures to groups of users in your organization. Any policy that can be saved into a SharePoint document library (office documents, videos, images, pdf’s, etc) can be assigned to a specific group of users. Once assigned – DocRead tracks who has and has not acknowledged those documents via a suite of reports and charts.
Show Off Your Style with SharePoint Theming
Show Off Your Style with SharePoint Theming
Theming in SharePoint 2013 makes it easier to drastically change the look of your site and make it your own.
Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Preview
Discontinued features and modified functionality in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Preview
The following features and functionality have been discontinued or changed in SharePoint 2013 Preview.
Site Mailboxes in the new Office
Site Mailboxes in the new Office
A site mailbox brings Exchange emails and SharePoint documents together. For users, a site mailbox serves as a central filing cabinet, providing a place to file project emails and documents that can be only accessed and edited by site members.


