Paris: Through the Lens
By John Hoke
/ March 28, 2023
Paris, known as the “City of Light,” has long been a sought-after destination for photographers seeking to capture the essence…
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Brooklyn Transit Museum
A few weeks ago I visited the New York City Transit Museum to take photos of the old subway cars, machines and so many amazing vintage signs. It was a beautiful day out and one of my favorite human beings and photographers took me for a tour of the museum. While it may be on […]
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Mother’s Day Present for Me
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! So, I don’t get into this publicly often. I lost my mother to cancer when I was just shy of ten years old, and she was 32. Like a lot of children, my mother was my world, and losing her at that young age has made […]
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Security and the (in)Human Element
This weekend a friend of mine was caught by yet another Facebook social engineering security event. It was a run of the mill phishing attack, and his credentials were compromised and scores of messages were sent out. The messages were simple “It’s you in this video?” with a fake link to Youtube (see image). This […]
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Happy New Year (and Screw You 2020!)
So it is a couple days into 2021, the hangovers and parties are done with. Here we are, a weekend of settling into the New Year has come and gone. The past 12 months have been a whirlwind of a dumpster fire, haven’t they. Well, I am going to try and leave all that behind […]
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Astrophotography and the curse of clouds
A couple things going on here on the astrophotography front that I thought I would post about… Firstly, I bit the bullet and placed an order for some new gear. I got a Sky-Watcher EQ6 Mount and a Williams Optics Red Cat scope for use with my Sony A7Riv. Both of these are on back-order, […]
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NEOWISE – Chasing the Comet
Not unlike other amateur astronomers and photographers, I have been outside every night trying to capture images of Neowise (a.k.a. C/2020 F3). Unfortunately, like most I’ve chatted with, I’ve also been fighting and frustrated by clouds and weather interference. If I was the paranoid sort, I would start to think the clouds are purposefully blocking […]
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Online Photo Galleries
Setting up and maintaining online photo galleries, aka “Frustration, Annoyance and Chaos”. As this is predominately a blog for my photography (photoblog), you would think I have a clue on how to best do this. You would be wrong. I started this photoblog years ago, and things grew organically. By this I mean it just […]
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Blowing Bubbles on the Thames
Don’t burst my bubble! Due to COVID-19 I’ve not been able to get out much to shoot new photos, but I have a hell of a backlog. This image was captured last year while in London on a business trip. I usually stay on Bankside near the Tate Modern and the River Thames. This location […]
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Round Robin… Eggs?
Outside of my dining room window, a robin made her nest and laid four eggs. While doing some cleanup in the yard yesterday, we found that two had hatched. I ran to grab my camera before mommy returned thinking we were trying to steal her hatchlings and pecked out my eyes 😁. I don’t aspire […]
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WordPress Updates and New Look!
I spent a few days of this COVID-19 crisis sitting in front of the computer and rebuilding a lot of this blog’s WordPress front end. The prior theme was nice looking but I was starting to find issues with its speed. Ultimately, it was just easier to gut and redo it than fix. I also […]
John P. Hoke
Cyber Security Professional, Photographer, Coffee Junkie, Mac Addict, Craft Beer & Whiskey connoisseur, all around curmudgeon and generally sarcastic SOB – Not necessarily in that order.
The opinions expressed on this blog are mine alone and not those of my employer, family, pets, the voices in my head, or anyone else for that matter … hell in an hour they may not be mine either 🙂
Recent Posts
Barcelona: Through the Lens
By John Hoke
/ March 27, 2023
Barcelona, the vibrant and artistic capital of Catalonia, offers a treasure trove of photographic opportunities for both amateur and professional…
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Flickr once again
By John Hoke
/ March 24, 2023
Flickr again, or never say “Never” Just a quick post. I have started using Flickr again to publish my photos…
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ChatGPT-4: not always what you ask
By John Hoke
/ March 24, 2023
Shall we play a game? In my continuing saga of messing around with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language…
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Information Security Training: Why & How
By John Hoke
/ March 22, 2023
Empowering Your Workforce to Safeguard Your Organization’s Digital Assets Introduction In today’s regulatory, litigious and online world, information security is…
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NY Transit Museum – Moving in Time
By John Hoke
/ March 21, 2023
I am still going through and processing photos taken last month at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. This…
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ChatGPT 4.0 – more blogging via Artificial Intelligence
By John Hoke
/ March 17, 2023
[Author’s Note] The following was part of my testing of artificial intelligence (specifically ChatGPT’s) ability to write technical blog posts…
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Fooling around with ChatGPT 4.0
By John Hoke
/ March 17, 2023
Messing around with ChatGPT 4.0 So, like a lot of people I have been intrigued by ChatGPT and now that…
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Rust, Decay and Beauty
By John Hoke
/ March 16, 2023
About six months ago I moved to Bethlehem, PA from the Pocono Mountains. My new place is on the South…
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Rebuilding and Redesigning this site
By John Hoke
/ March 15, 2023
Sometimes the best way out of a slump is to gut the project and redesigning it from the ground up…
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