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Coffee shops replace shopping malls
Coffee shops replace shopping malls as a social destination. Some of my thinking in this regard derives from popular TV cultural. The representations that people saw in Frazier's Cafe Nervosa and Central Perk where Friends went for a forum can be denied. photo of Oak...
US House voted to repeal broadband privacy
A thin majority in the US House voted to repeal broadband privacy. They decided yesterday to give our personal information away. President Donald Trump now stands between you and your browsing privacy. The vote broke along party lines, with most Republicans voting...
Net nuetrality is necessary
Net neutrality is necessary for our privacy. This article encourages taking action now to let your Congressperson know that you care and are aware. If you are in the sixth district of North Carolina Mark Walker's Greensboro office info is at the bottom of the page....
Loving kindness meditation
Loving kindness meditation May I be safe and protected from inner and outer harm. May I be happy and contented. May I be healthy and whole to whatever degree possible. May I experience the ease of well being - loving kindness meditation The posting of the loving...
AWS Amazon’s web servers down and it’s causing trouble across the internet
AWS Amazon’s web servers down at the time this article was posted. AWS is part of a huge infrastructure that people rely on. It powers significant parts of our augmented-reality. My streaming music is down. Other people are affected in different ways. They'll have it...
Microsoft privacy awareness
Microsoft privacy awareness is and has been on the forefront of concern as long as I have been in tech. That is 25 years. What to do about this real concern. Awareness in the first step. A coworker prompted me about it last month. Many of the people we see every have...
Getting standing desk back
Getting my standing desk back in place after 7 months in a seat is a good. What a relief. When I started the standing desk, I was using cases to elevate the monitors and it really worked. Tekmar got really busy at the end of the April, fighting cybercrime and covering...
Internet of things
The internet of things is very exciting. Enjoy the excitement. It is amazing. A few years ago, a friend had an exciting idea. It was on the edge of the internet of things. Diana came to me because she remembered our talking about a simple electronic device called a...
5 reasons business class laptops are better
5 reasons business class laptops are better The first laptop in my hands was in the early 1990s. It was a business class machine made by Tandy corporation. That’s right Tandy! The parent company of the once thriving consumer electronics retailer, Radio Shack. Tandy...
Keeping systems up-to-date is critical
Keeping systems up-to-date is a critical piece in the computer security puzzle. More than making sense from a security perspective keeping systems to update is a good practice because it is more of a roll-out of new features and functions. With the latest versions of...