A quick reminder to change your passwords regularly. There are more up to date guides, but password guide I wrote years ago is still fairly valid. Also it’s worth looking at my post on revisiting your personal security. Last night after watching a movie, I noticed I was logged out of gmail, which isn’t odd, … Read more
To follow up my previous post on how to keep yourself safe, I felt it was only fitting that I also add a short piece on how you can recover from some data loss situations. First and foremost, I’ll re-iterate, BACKUP UP YOUR DATA! Look at this from a money point of view. The following … Read more
A few weeks ago, in purchasing a new phone and looking for the best deal on the internet, I was taken in by a phishing site. Additionally, Angela, my girlfriend in South Africa, left her USB thumb drive in a library and returned to find it missing. A few weeks later she was accosted by … Read more
This Christmas, we’ll have a new toy on the market, one that might actually be useful to kids. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative put forth by Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Labs is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children around the world, especially to those in developing countries, … Read more