Monday, August 28, 2017

My Favorite Technical Hacks

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Hacks are simple shortcuts that increase productivity. They can be inelegant, but they solve a problem quickly. Hacks may be brittle, solv...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

A Perfect Total Eclipse

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With all the news about next week's solar eclipse,  I was thinking about why we always see the same side of the moon. The answer is ...
Friday, August 4, 2017

Air Traffic Control Center Tour

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I took a tour of an air traffic control facility, this afternoon, and learned a few things from a controller's perspective. We couldn...

Today, I turn 0x32 Years Old

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Today, I turn 0x32 years old (0b110010 for you binary nerds). That's half a century of life experiences for me. Now, I am officially...
Tuesday, August 1, 2017

How to Stop Google From Storing Your Voice to Text Recordings

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Today, I ran across an article pointing out that Google is storing your searches and queries, including your voice to text dictation data. ...
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...