Friday, July 28, 2017

USMC Order of Battle: How it's Budgeted

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Second Battalion, First Marines Supply Section I joined the Marines when I was a naive teenager. I didn't know an officer from an en...
Monday, July 24, 2017

How Not to Answer a Press Question

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Erik Prince: Founder of Blackwater This morning, I heard an NPR interview, " Blackwater Founder Backs Outsourcing Afghan War-Fighti...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Me, Apple, and the Marines

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Podcast interview: I’m always excited to talk about Apple, WebObjects , my time in the Marines, and working with Guy Kawasaki , Dave Win...

Too Much Security at USAA

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Click to enlarge the USAA mobile app security steps. Typically, security is a tradeoff with convenience. But, it doesn't have to b...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Benefits Before Features

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Steve Jobs: And then they tried "Got Milk..." On this day in 1804, the Vice President of United States mortally wounded Alexa...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Hail Cricket, Farewell AT&T

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AT&T LTE Bandwidth I've used AT&T Wireless service since the first iPhone was released, exactly ten years ago, yesterday. AT...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Apple ID Two-step vs Two-factor Authentication

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I recently had a slew of unauthorized attempted logins on my iCloud account which kept locking me out, requiring a password reset. I called ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

This is so Easy

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Earlier this month, my octogenarian mother had to give up her defunct decade-old MacBook that she inherited from my father. Before 2007, s...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Future-proofing Naïveté

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How naive we were, ten years ago, to think that URL shorteners needed to  withstand the apocalypse . Even back then, we called it future-p...
Monday, June 12, 2017

My Luck With Banking

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Last month, I withdrew $200 from a San Diego ATM. Unlike New York, where ATMs dispense $20, $50, and $100 bills, San Diego's ATMs have...
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