Ejaz Asi - Information Designer from Karachi, Pakistan

The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type it, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes. The test measures your password’s number of characters, type of characters used, and the order of your characters. (Sequential letters or numbers, for example, equals weak passwords). Toss your favorite high-security password into this tool—you may be surprised at how you did.

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This is classic. It’s been quite a while since I have really looked into something related to webdesign on internet even though I have been actively designing different websites during all this time. But this probably would keep me busy in next several days.

Google have formally launched what they call Google Webmaster Central. Here’s what they say:

You’ve worked hard on your sites, and, not surprisingly, you want to make sure they’re listed appropriately in Google, so of course you have lots of questions. You can find many answers simply by creating a Google webmaster tools account (if you have a Google Account, you’re already set), adding your site URL to your account, and verifying that you own the site. A few of the many things you can do with webmaster tools:

• Tell us if you’d prefer your site’s URLs to be indexed with the www or without.
• View any errors we had crawling your site.
• See an analysis of your robots.txt file and a way to test changes to it.
• See what searches bring up your site in the results and what position the site shows up.
• Request reinclusion of your site if you’re previously violated the webmaster guidelines.

Whoa! I can now easily identify which pages Google’s found 404 without going to my stats pages and so on. But for which websites?

Well, for last two months, I have been (once again) seriously thinking to re-start publishing at EOMag - an International ezine I started back in 2001 but haven’t been updating since 2004. There’ve been lots of things happening in my life, in Pakistan and in the world generally. I’d be taking time off of my work next month and hopefully would be able to spend some good time looking for new work and contributors. That’s when I’d hopefully fully utilize the new Google Webmaster Central as well.

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Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf.

“It’s ok! I have great advisors standing on the shore telling me what to do!” they say, and then fall off the board, again and again. The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. Is Ballmer going to be another John Sculley, who nearly drove Apple into extinction because the board of directors thought that selling Pepsi was good preparation for running a computer company? The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don’t understand

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