Softball season has arrived again and the B-Squad is back out trying to win a game. My softball team calls Dusty’s in Northeast home, and after every game (and sometimes before) you will find us at Dusty’s enjoying a Grain Belt Premium. Part of our ritual is the jukebox and …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Asking For Too MuchThe design of the Internet allows for an incredible amount of decentralization. My blog, is run on my server, and yet you can all get to it. We don’t have to have all blogs in one place. And that is a good thing. I got three notices recently that highlight one of many downsides …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Centralized Data BreachesI tapped on a unsubscribe link today to rid myself of another spam list. This URL quickly flashed through the browser as several redirects were occurring. What does this URL say?
http://your-website-here.com/index.php/leadCapture/save
That certainly reinforced that I didn’t need those emails anymore. I wonder what cookies they dropped on my browser in all those redirects.
Just spent two hours cleaning vandalism off of one of my websites. (mediawiki, not WordPress). Nasty Internet out there.
Having fun with Daytum. After 1-month I’m pretty happy with my beer page.
I like to use digital signing in email, and some friends have done the same and we can exchange fully encrypted email. However, it’s a major issue that iOS has no support for this. If you get an encrypted email, this is all you can see. There is nothing you can do with the email. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Why No Mail Encryption on iPad?This morning I read the news about Gawker having 1.3 million passwords taken from their servers. These passwords were attached to email addresses. What do you need to login to Amazon again? Email, got it. Password, probably have that to. I read this article with a bit of …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: Good Passwords with 1PasswordIt’s clear to me that spam on Twitter continues to be a growing problem. Tonight I posted a simple question about weather apps on the iPad. Within seconds I got these really helpful replies from four attractive women that supposedly follow my every message, including one that …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Twitter SpamI’ve started the process of having our name and address removed from all the junk mail that we get. We moved a few months ago and now it seems to be queueing up again. It’s mysterious to me that 8-month old Tyler is getting catalogs.
Just added my 100th web login to 1Password.
