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Somewhere up there, I know she’s all smiley-face down at us.

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We finally got Esperanto, people! Apparently it’s spelled “e-m-o-j-i.”

This is kind of the flip side of Monday’s forgotten-password cartoon. Which makes me wonder: how long before emoji character sets are incorporated into passwords? That’s 722 more characters to confound would-be fraudsters and thieves, magnifying the difficulty of brute-force attacks. Your next password may be something like “9L#$jvf]OJ6TD%WR Face Savouring Delicious Food p*35.”

Just sayin’.

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It’s my least favourite expression in the world, often said after some provocative or offensive comment to short-circuit the possibility of being held responsible for it. “You’re passive-aggressive. I’m just sayin’.”

I’ll give a free pass to the way some people use it, thought – as a kind of ironic, winking way to say “I trust we understand each other.” “Someone oughta take care of that witness. Just sayin’.” Or as Ivan said late last night, “@RobCottingham You know Drupal geeks will massively retweet any cartoon referring to DrupalCon…Jus’ sayin’…”

And on that subject, Ivan…