The Sanskrits say the soul forgets his past lives during reincarnation. Which can mean to forget past cares is a requirement to go on living. Interesting community -- I'm at the Jolibee restaurant beside the University of San Carlos Cebu main campus... Everybody is busy... Do they remember who San Carlos was? [Borromeo -- says an old friend with the same last name.] Do they remember the role the religous orders played in the shaping of history since Sumer? Do they remember why girls in the school used to wear skirts and long sleeved blouses? (Ask the more conservative religious orders the same.) Magic. The early peoples painted themselves to attune with the spirit world. Ancient kings attired themselves to look like gods. Costume and makeup is magic. Magic is a big ingredient in the workings of political power. Black tie please. Oh, in contrast, Jesus wore a plain woolen robe. Lest we forget. It's ok to forget past cares. But not the lessons we need to learn. In this life or the next.
Last week I needed to compile a list of several hundred fake customer names with fake (but verifiable) email addresses and passwords to test a client's eCommerce site. Fake data generators At that time, I knew of only two online identity generators: Fake Identity Generator (FIG) and GenerateData.com (GD). By accepting three user-specified parameters (country, gender, age range) FIG outputs a lot of nice fake data, including disposable (but accessible) YopMail email addresses and relatively easy-to-remember passwords. However FIG doesn't provide free bulk identity generation so I had to generate and copy-paste identities one at a time – a very slow process – along with manually creating accounts using these fake identities at the client site (I had no access to the client content management system so I couldn't bulk register the fake identities). On the other hand, GD allows bulk generation of identities (up to 100 at a time) for free (and with more paramete...
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