Curiosity in Practice
For the last year my doctors have been worried about my moderately high blood pressure. A few weeks ago after a bad migraine attack and a huge spike in my blood pressure my doctor decided to put me on blood pressure medicine to lower it. I have made these handy charts of my average energy … Read more
About once a month I will get a call from someone who is upset because their account was hacked and wants to know what they can do to stop it from happening in the future. The truth is enabling two factor authentication (2FA) is one of the best things you can do to make sure … Read more
I have a Samsung S3 that decided it wouldn’t boot on Wednesday. After talking to the very helpful people at Samsung they decided that they can replace my phone for me but I need to send them my broken phone. Awesome! But… All my data is on my phone. All my email. All my passwords. … Read more
GodMode is a control panel In (Windows 7 and Windows 8) that brings together all of the customization settings to one place. To activate “GodMode” do the following: Step 1: Right click on the desktop Step 2: Click create folder. Step 3: Name the new folder: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} and press enter. Step 4: The folder changes … Read more
Earlier today I was asked to come up with the best way to keep your social media accounts secure. Here are 5 easy ways to protect your social media accounts: Update accounts with unique, complex passwords.Complex passwords will contain a combination of upper and lower case letters, symbols and numbers, and have at least ten … Read more
I made the Alton Brown Skirt Steak on coals tonight. It was really good but next time I make it I will leave it on another minute to get it medium-rare instead of rare. Here are a couple of pictures:
In two weeks I am on a career panel for a group of high school kids interested in technology careers. They sent a list of discussion questions they were going to use to get the conversation started and one of them was: What does it take to be successful in information technology? The answer to … Read more
My son asked me on Saturday as we were going into the store why an old guy was selling flowers. It gave me an opportunity to tell him about the “true meaning” of Memorial Day and explain to him that some of our bravest hero’s don’t get to come home. So today I will be … Read more
I got a call from a friend who was sure his PC was hacked because his CD-ROM drive kept randomly opening and closing. After looking at the machine I found a .vbs file in his appdata folder named RandomlyOpenCD.VBS (surprisingly It randomly opens and closes the CD drive) and nothing else that looked like an … Read more
Last night I sent an email to a good friend and his boss passing on an amazing career opportunity that paid an ungodly amount of money. It was basically Scrooge McDuck build a money bin money. So why didn’t I take it? After a lot of thinking and discussion with my wife it boiled down … Read more