Articles & Other Musings

Articles & Other Musings

Photography Backup - Meme
Computing

Photography backup and archiving – plan for disaster

Protecting your work with a successful photography backup plan I’ve been asked how I protect my artwork, images and related information with a dedicated photography backup plan. I take a belt and suspenders approach with multiple copies on and off site using both free and

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Ransomware
Computing

WannaCry as a security belweather?

WannaCrypt: A test for an organization’s security posture? A week after the news about the WannaCry (WannaCrypt) ransomware attacks, the security companies FUD and the general misunderstanding of the root cause of this supposed nightmare – where are we and what exactly have we learned? Other

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WannaCry aka WannaCrypt ransomware
Computing

WannaCry in my beer

WannaCry or the Cyber-Event that should never have happened Ok, the WannaCry tears are drying and InfoSec and IT professionals around the world are catching up on sleep lost over the weekend. A fair number of them are probably, like me, wondering how this became so ugly

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All this modern SmartHome Technology and I still cant turn on the damn lights!
SmartHome

A Somewhat SmartHome or Where’s the Light Switch?

My SmartHome is supposed to be smarter than me, right? I’ve avoided a lot of the SmartHome push, but finally gave in over the past week or so. My caving in was not really due to laziness or really needed to automate anything. It was more out

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White Stag Portland Oregon signage
Travel

Greetings from unsunny Portland

Does the sun even know Portland exists? I’m out on the West Coast this week for a mixed business / personal trip and after arriving in Portland Monday night, I have not seen the sun yet. I hear rumor that it will come out and

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Travel

It’s Spring – Must mean travel again

Keep your eyes on the road … Just a quick heads up – going to be traveling a lot over the next few weeks. Hopefully I will have some opportunity to get some good shots – especially while in Portland, Oregon! While I love that

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Amazon Web Services Lightsail logo and robot
Computing

The more things stay the same …

The more they change … In the previous post I vented a bit about how Microsoft was starting to seriously eat Apple’s lunch … I have used the same shared hosting service for over ten years now, and while they are amazing people and always

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Apple Think Different campaign and logo
Computing

Confessions of an Apple “Fanboy”

I’m probably going to “Think Different” … Ok it should come as no surprise to anyone that knows me, whom I’ve helped with their personal (or sometimes business) computer issues, or asked me for a recommendation on what they should do … Get the latest

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