Covid and Me I think I had it. I lost my smell for many months Brain fog was bad. I was faking that I remembered things people said. Pressure in my head. It felt like my head was going to explode. Cough that would not go away for a month. …

I want pretty pictures in my code. Not ASCII art, not links to HTML pages or PDFs or Visio diagrams, I want to use my editor to put pictures in my code. I want to be able to draw in a comment block. A long time ago, in a land…

Years ago, my two business partners invested in the SmartThings Kickstarter. After they played with the setup, I ended up with the Smarthub, a couple door sensors, a motion sensor and a light switch. Its pretty cool and I use it as my home security system. The thing its missing…

For me, I am mainly interested in computer malware or viruses, when they are associated with spam email. In 1998, I started to get my first pieces of spam email. For a while, I was just deleting them, that got too annoying and I wrote some Perl scripts on a…

Qubes OS is my favorite new Linux distribution. I have been a *nix user since dinosaur days, starting with a version 7 UNIX PDP-11 that would trash the file system everytime it lost power and a System 3 and later 4.2 BSD based 68010 system, an ISI Optimum, I still…

Today I was just listening to a security podcast, the CyberJungle, and they were blaming the slow adoption of Android updates on the cellphone carriers. This is a theme I have heard many times, and I’m not sure its entirely true. I think the porting of Android updates might be…

Fake news is in the news. Today I got an extra dose of it as two friends on the opposite ends of the political spectrum, argued about what was happening. Both accusing each other of listening to “Fake News”. I think we’ve gone a little overboard, but I do like…

One of my all time favorite science fiction movies is Blade Runner. One of the scenes from the movie, Roy Batty asks Leon — “Did you get your precious photos?”. A lot of the things in my life, I could lose, it would be a bummer, but I would move…

Number 1 — I want all of my data available to me wherever I go, portably and securely. All computers, phones, electronics, etc., will die. I have to assume that any computer I am typing on, may die tomorrow or in the next hour. Many examples of this in my…