Lately I’m hearing quite a lot of music, among the styles, electronic, funk and classic. I wanted to share this special moment in Piazzolla’s life, where he mets Nadia Boulanger, his teacher in Paris. The insightful Boulanger turned his life around in a day, as Piazzolla tells beautifully in his own words:

“When I met her, I showed her my kilos of symphonies and sonatas. She started to read them and suddenly came out with a horrible sentence: ‘It’s very well written.’
And stopped, with a big period, round like a soccer ball. After a long while, she said:
“Here you are like Stravinsky, like Bartók, like Ravel, but you know what happens? I can’t find Piazzolla in this.”
And she began to investigate my private life: what I did, what I did and did not play, if I was single, married, or living with someone, she was like an FBI agent! And I was very ashamed to tell her that I was a tango musician. Finally I said, “I play in a ‘night club.’” I didn’t want to say “cabaret.” And she answered, “Night club, mais oui, but that is a cabaret, isn’t it?” “Yes,” I answered, and thought, “I’ll hit this woman in the head with a radio….” It wasn’t easy to lie to her.
She kept asking: “You say that you are not pianist. What instrument do you play, then?” And I didn’t want to tell her that I was a bandoneon player, because I thought, “Then she will throw me from the fourth floor.” Finally, I confessed and she asked me to play some bars of a tango of my own. She suddenly opened her eyes, took my hand and told me: “You idiot, that’s Piazzolla!” And I took all the music I composed, ten years of my life, and sent it to hell in two seconds.”

Piazzolla returned to Argentina in 1955, formed the Octeto Buenos Aires to play tangos, and never looked back.

Starting from the web mail, newspapers, to banking and any other service such as message boards or weblogs. We all handle different access credentials to access different web sites. Access Management is the process and technology associated with creating and maintaining system-identities for each person that is needs access to certain sections of a website or service.
On many webs today some contents and resources are only available after login. How many web accounts and profile information we ‘ve populated over the world wide web ?
Here we are publishing some Tips and suggestions on making username and password that will be safe and unique for a secure login:

• Avoid using the same password that you use to login in your email in any web credentials password. There are people that provide the same email and password as an access credential than to access the email service itself. That is the analog of leaving the secret code of your debit card in a folder of your wallet. It’is not a good idea and it becames worse when you use the same password and same email for various services. E.g.
  Access to web email : youruser@test.com pass: pass1234
  Access to serviceweb.com: youruser pass: pass1234 email set in youruser: youruser@test.com (!)
• Keep only the access credentials you need. Avoid leaving personal details everywhere. Have you ever though about how many access credentials and profiles you’ve to access different web sites ? We leave our personal details in many places without even knowing who is responsible about the sensible personal information.
• Don’t use a password that is identical to the username. I know that this is pretty obvious but I have to mention it here because I’ve seen it many times.
• Don’t use a password that is obvious. This includes first name, your birthday DayMonthYear and other obvious approaches. Try to build a strong password, letters, numbers something that is unique to you and not too hard to remember.
• Use only secure sites when sending sensible information. Secure sites use a certificate that encrypts the information you send between your computer and the site you are visiting. That means that if someone is capable of seeing the bits packs of information sended from your computer this data encrypted. (Which does not happen when you send information on a non secure site, so take care, your neightbour plugged anonymously to your wireless may be aware about your love affairs)
• Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email address for no reason ? The guys of Mailinator though about this and build a service to avoid leaving your real email when there is no reason. And if you are a developer there is a good reason to check about emails ending in mailinator.com when you ask for a real email.
• Avoid signing up in sites where it’s hard to read the privacy policy or terms of use. Privacy policy must be clear, short, understandable.

It’s been 80 years since the last time that Buenos Aires was dressed in white. This are the pictures that my family sent from there.

(Photo credits: Javier Fasani)

A big hug Martin, and good luck with this new Fasani’s page.

Your father

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