Mea Vita: Carpe Diem

My favorite security quotes from Bruce  Schneier. Security, when it is working, is often invisible not only to those being protected, b...

One does not simply walk into Antique Row's last remaining antique store, in North Park, without receiving an appropriate history on a...

I signed up to receive an Apple Card, today. The entire process, from applying, through approval, to receiving the new card in my Apple Wa...

Noon meal formation at the US Naval Academy. Plebe Summer, at the Naval Academy, is about sacrifice. It's about learning how to dea...

Yesterday, I was at Balboa Park during a parade which had a couple hundred thousand attendees. Whenever that many people get squeezed int...

Today, I had lunch with the founders of Jesta. I have been wanting a restaurant customer experience like Jesta for years . It's lik...

I was talking to a savvy restaurateur who told me how he decided on the location to open an Indian restaurant in a particular neighborhood i...

The Marines are excellent at no-nonsense marketing. It's about being direct and setting the expectation.  In June 1985, there was a T...

The Mueller Report has been made public; all 448 pages. Known formally as the  Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In Th...

The heart of the Timer class. I left out a simple tip from my " Tricks I Learned At Apple: Steve Jobs Load Testing " piece abo...