I’m the owner of a Gmail address that bears my name, in the form [email protected] Many others who share my name, have addresses that are…
The path less traveled.
I’m the owner of a Gmail address that bears my name, in the form [email protected] Many others who share my name, have addresses that are…
The first business email address I used, [email protected], now almost twenty years old, is the source of 95% of the spam I receive. I no…
When I signup for an online service, I like to use an email address that’s unique to that service, i.e. something like [email protected] Email for…
One of the services for which I’ve truly been happy to pay is 1Password for Families, which allows my wife and I to centrally manage…
In this article, I describe how I added security to my home network by installing a router that directs all internet traffic through an encrypted VPN connection. The adventure includes my experience with the FlashRouters company, the Tomato router firmware software, an OpenVPN connection to the Cloak network, the Linksys E2500 router and the Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router.
For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why.
A few weeks ago, and way late to the game, I started listening to podcasts. Of the several I’ve heard so far, the ones I enjoyed have included Horace Dediu’s “The Critical Path“, Benedict Evans’s “Cubed“, Gabe Weatherhead and Erik Hess’s “Technical Difficulties” and Shawn Blanc’s “The Weekly Briefly“. The ones I’ve disliked have included John Gruber’s “The Talk Show” and Marco Arment’s “Accidental Tech“.
I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why I liked some and disliked others. This is mostly for my own benefit, since going through this exercise will likely reveal my motivations for listening to podcasts in the first place.
My livelihood and many of my hobbies revolve around technology. This past week, after witnessing an unfortunate series of technology problems affecting my Mom, I’ve been reflecting on how I take for granted as commonly understood so many technological concepts that, in reality, are not commonly understood at all.
