• Rochester's famous Dickens Festival is about to get under way!
  • Actress Jessie Cave talks a little about playing Biddy in the bigscreen Great Expectations, in this brief interview.
  • There's a new plaque marking the place where Dickens spent his last night in Portsmouth.
  • Toledo, Ohio, has a new coffee shop named after Bleak House.
  • In an article for the New Zealand Herald News, Colin Hogg recounts his journey "in Dickens's footsteps."
  • There's an article here about how people who work with LinkedIn passwords are using A Tale of Two Cities for . . . something or other. Not being a techie, I can't understand a word of it, but maybe some of you can.
  • A letter written by Dickens's first love, Maria Beadnell, to her daughter Ella, was recently sold on eBay to a former English teacher.

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  1. Marian Avatar

    Ugh…the whole LinkedIn password thing makes me sick. The article is rather confusing, but it seems to say that Mr Young is trying to expand his program’s vocabulary/word combinations via classic lit. As to his objective… :/ It’s not foolproof, but I’d recommend that people make each of their passwords as long and confusing as possible–there should be no recognisable words in it.

  2. Scrabcake Avatar

    Guess I’d better rethink having my password for everything be “sydneycarton”. Darn.

  3. Christy Avatar

    I agree with Marian about the article being confusing. In trying to give enough information for the average person to understand what he was talking about, the author of the article only gave enough information to be confusing and not enough to actually explain the concept. I know some tiny amount about password conversions in databases, but I barely understood half of the article.

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  1. He did an audiobook of A Christmas Carol too.

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