You're so vain; you probably think that announcement asking people to "silence your cell phones" isn't about you. Or maybe you really thought your ringer was off. Or you assumed no one would call anyway. Regardless, your carelessness or arrogance or laziness just disrupted everyone else's movie or theatre experience, and most of us hate … Continue reading Please silence your cell phones (yes, you!)
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Since news broke of an Equifax data breach impacting around half of the adults in the United States people have been trying to sort out how this happened. Someone eventually covered a detail that was clearly considered damning evidence. Equifax's Chief Security Officer (CSO) at the time of the breach was *gasp!* a music major. Since … Continue reading The unfair vilification of the Equifax CSO’s music degrees
Many people still seem to assume that people who work with computers are not creative. In my experience the best technologists are always creative, although often that creativity manifests itself in ways that are not always visible to those outside their industries. But sometimes the person working with the computer is a visual artist, and … Continue reading The art of technology on display in the Jepson Center TechSpace
The Internet is forever. That's what I warn people from a privacy perspective. But the Internet is only forever until it's not. Websites are redesigned or deleted all the time. Bookmarked links become dead ends. But if something you were looking for online doesn't appear to there anymore you may still be able to find … Continue reading Go back in time with the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
I remember we used to forget. We'd forget facts and phone numbers, who wrote a certain book, how to convert centimeters to inches, who won the Super Bowl in a given year. We forgot a lot of things and had no easy way of finding them out quickly. There was no Google or even Alta … Continue reading I remember we used to forget
Kim Z. Dale 