Wait, I hear it again Don’t turn on the lights until we Hear the way it ends from Peruvian Skies by Dream Theater During the course of 2009 I wrote about a number of issues that have had recent developments. So by way of winding down 2009 [yeah I'm glad it's over too] here are [...]
Archive for December, 2009
2009 – That’s a wrap!
Posted: December 28, 2009 in general, professional, securityTags: Balloon Boy, encryption, expectation of privacy, identity theft, illegal immigration, legal confusion, medical marijuana, privacy, reality TV, undocumented workers
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How the TSA can be like Rihanna or not
Posted: December 19, 2009 in general, securityTags: Grinch, RIAA, Rihanna, TSA manual, wikileaks
By now everybody has heard about the most recent debacle involving the unredacted TSA manual that was leaked to WikiLeaks. In case you’ve been too busy Christmas shopping or listening to the great free holiday music posted on this blog here, here and here (with a bonus here) CBS news covered it like this. It [...]
Gift of holiday music for all – present 3
Posted: December 13, 2009 in general, musicTags: Christmas music, free music, Garritan, holiday music
As my holiday gift to you, loyal readers, instead of security related commentary, this series of posts contains holiday music for you to enjoy. For free. For you and whoever you would like to share it with. The earlier posts in this series present 1: Impressions of Christmas 2001 and present 2: Christmas Child 2002 [...]
Gift of holiday music for all – present 2
Posted: December 10, 2009 in musicTags: Christmas music, free music, holiday music
As my holiday gift to you, loyal readers, instead of security related commentary, this series of posts contains holiday music for you to enjoy. For free. For you and whoever you would like to share it with. I should explain where this music comes from. In 2000, Larry Hall and I decided to start recording [...]
Gift of holiday music for all – present 1
Posted: December 6, 2009 in musicTags: Christmas music, free music, holiday music
It’s the holiday season! I love this season, and in particular I love Christmas music. As a musician I’m partial to Christmas music for several reasons: traditional Christmas carols are so ingrained in our collective psyche that as an arranger one can explore many different styles and arrangements without confusing the listener and the Christmas [...]
Gray haired computing part 3
Posted: December 2, 2009 in general, securityTags: botnet, email, mail, malware, phishing, pwned, senior citizen, senior computing, senior netizen, spam
In part 1 of this series we talked about finding the right computer system and decried the lack of availability of such systems. In part 2 we talked about how to get connected with friends and family when access to a computer system is impossible or impractical. So in this part we’ll start from the [...]
