2023 Project 52 – 25/52
The week started off with Juneteenth. The wife and I walked to the Freedom House; a museum in one of the most notorious slave traders in the domestic slave trade. It was a very well done museum, teaching the history…
Category TECHNOLOGY
World Password Day
Since I work in information security, I think today is a great opportunity to remind people of some good password tips. Finally, I stole this Password BINGO card … play along and see what mistakes you’ve made (I’m guilty of…
Best Smartphone Camera 2022?
MKBHD has done another annual vote for best camera on a smartphone. This year they took it up a notch though. They created a website allowing folks to blind vote (as usual), but made it more of a ranked voting…
THAT was a close one
I’ve been re-working some stuff on the back end of this blog and trying to clean up some of the files on the host. I had an old domain name tied to an instance of WordPress that looked like it…
Cyber Security Awareness Month – Four Things You Can Do
My company sends a security newsletter around regularly. Last week’s newsletter had a bunch of Cyber Security Awareness Month tips, so I poached these things YOU can do. I know I always appreciate action items that will help a situation…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 007
James Bond edition! Get it … because 007? It’s not really a post dedicated to James Bond. I mean, I like the films, but I don’t think I know or follow the series enough to have a whole post dedicated…
Cyber Security Awareness Month – Spam Reminders
Happy Cyber Security Awareness Month! Since I work daily in cybersecurity, I figured I would try to post a couple reminders this month for my 10 readers. First, can we please all agree whether it should be cybersecurity (one word)…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 005
What I Learned About The NY Times Daily podcast had an interesting feature about metal rights on the bottom of the ocean in international waters. If there’s a way for somebody to make a $hitload of money, they’ll do it…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 003
What I Learned About The global droughts going on right now have made a whole host of strange things surface. From dead bodies in Lake Mead, Nevada to “Hunger Stones” in the river between Germany and the Czech Republic. It’s…
My Mostly Magnificent Miscellany 002
What I’m Listening To I regularly like to pick a song and have YouTube music make a “radio station” out of it; making an “on the spot” playlist of similar songs. This popped up in a radio station based on…
Zoom Zoom
I own a Mazda CX-5. I bought it new in 2019 and it’s been a great car so far. Gets me to-and-from work easily. Has lots of bells and whistles. Didn’t break the bank. Etc. I still daydream of a…
It’s Like They’re Not Even Trying
Our company sends out periodic email phishing attempts to train us on what to look for and to help keep us vigilant. We even have a little plugin in Outlook that we can “report phishing” and we get a little…
Calm Your Cats, Lady
I’m reminded almost daily how bad social media can be. Most notably with neighborhood groups filled with a mish-mash of random levels of idiot. You know you don’t HAVE to respond to every post you see, right? You don’t even…
Fun At Work #541
Approximately a month ago, a teammate and I updated a process to request account changes on various networks that we control We automated everything and are running it through our ticketing process so we can approve and audit the requests…
Early Adopter, Late to the Party
I’ve been an “early adopter” most of my life. I’ve always loved the newest gadgets. I’ve tried to stay up-to-date on the latest tech. In my career, I’ve often been the person tagged to test out a new implementation or…
Pet Peeves: Gas Station edition
A couple pet peeves I didn’t realize I had reared their ugly heads this morning in the Costco gas line. People who get back in their car after starting the pump. I know the chances of static electricity sparking the…
Honoring Those Who Serve
First and foremost, thank you to all who have served in our armed forces for your service. Thank you to the families who support them and the sacrifices they’ve made as well. My father was a POW in Vietnam. His…
Psychology, Prosperity, Politics, and Productivity, oh my.
I took an “intelligent risk-taking” course through work. One of the topics discussed was the “availability bias” when trying to determine risk of something we don’t know. The way our brains work, we try to recall examples of that thing…
Mask Mandates Make Many Mad
The past week or so has been a busy whirlwind of life getting in the way. Busy at the office. Busy with schoolwork. Busy at home. So some things just had to go to the backburner, like posting a blog.…
Fall Finally Found Fairfax
It’s been quite a week, which is why I’m posting this later in the week than I want. Anyway, the wife, the son, and I went apple picking this past weekend (the daughter was out of town or she would…
Fed Up With Facebook … Again
Like most people on the internet, I go through phases in which I’m sick of social media. It doesn’t do anything other than make me angry. Everybody is wrong and I can’t do anything to prove they’re wrong (or they…
Catchphrase
Testing out a new “newsletter” style format for this post. I’ll try compiling all my thoughts, updates, links, etc. and posting them once per week (or so). So, let me know what you think of the format. Maybe it’s stupid.…
Tracking Tag Security
You’ve likely seen the cool new tracking tag on the block – Apple’s AirTags (which were released less than a month ago). This week’s Naked Security Live video from Sophos Security discusses how safe they are. Spoiler alert: they’ve already…
Todoist vs. TickTick – round 2
To-do list showdown … revisited! I did a comparison between Premium Todoist and Premium TickTick a couple years ago just to document some of the differences between these two task list applications and give my opinion or observation of the…