Capturing question-and-answer by blog

Previously I posted about a technique I use for making my passwords more difficult to guess, but easier to remember. Then today I came across a post on another blog on the same subject - a slightly more complex technique than I prefer, but a post that has sparked a huge number of comments.

It’s worth taking a look at if you’re searching for a way of managing the complexity/memorability problem - and for another reason besides.

Imagine that you’d asked that question in the workplace. How would you have done it?

Chances are, it would have either been by email (or standing on a chair and shouting over the cubicles if you work in a Dilbert cartoon). Either way would get responses, but neither would capture those responses for future reference by others.

Now imagine that you’d done exactly what happened here - asked the question on a blog. This time your coworkers respond, but their responses are comments. They’re permanent, archived, and searchable. The next time someone has the same question and searches the blog archives, back the answers will come.

It’s a simple example, but simple examples combining to create something that can greatly aid the way you work is what blogs and wikis are all about.

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