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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
My Productivity Process – part 1: Intro
Intro: I moved back to using a notebook daily for my tasks and events. But I also use a digital todo list to capture long-term items and a digital calendar because it’s always available and easier to add/search events. I…
Vintage New York
YouTube offered the following video as a suggestion alongside another video I was watching. It was one of those random ones that pops up, but their algorithm has clearly pegged me because I was interested. It’s a fascinating way to…
My Journal Process
I’ve been writing in my journal for a couple years now. However, it used to be just a recap of the things I did during the day. Sometimes it was only a short bullet list recording events, sometimes a paragraph…
Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. A recent resurgence of the “You are in this video” attack on Facebook prompted me to post some tips to stay safe online. These tips are lifted from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pamphlet:…
Digital Detox – done
And that’s a wrap! I did my “digital detox” for the 30 days of April. You can read the rules I setup on that link, but basically I removed most notifications from my phone/watch and committed to not checking most…
New Microblog (sort of)
Like most people on the internet, I consume a LOT of links, stories, memes, videos, etc. Sometimes I want to share something I read or watch. But, I’m also trying to limit my social media time and not everything fits on…
Digital Detox – halfway point
Yesterday marked two weeks of going through my “digital detox”. I followed Cal Newport’s direction for a 30 day digital detox from his book “Digital Minimalism.” I had been losing my interest in most social media platforms anyway and had…
Flegan
My wife decided to become vegan about three years ago. My daughter had been vegetarian for most of her life at that point and decided to go full vegan shortly after my wife. Since that time, I’ve certainly changed my…
Focus on work… SQUIRREL!
The last several months have been super busy. I accepted the program manager role at work; but in doing that, I had to not only learn those tasks, but help my old team with their work load, and find and…
Notion.so Dashboard
I started using Notion.so a few months ago, then decided to pay for a year subscription when they dropped the price to $4 Since that time, I’ve really taken to adding notes, structuring things, working on projects, etc. It’s a…
Todoist vs. TickTick
To-do list showdown! I’ve been using Todoist for several months and am really starting to develop and trust my system with it. However, I had recently been hearing a lot of hub-bub about TickTick and decided to take a look at…