CybersecurityFebruary 9, 2026
I have been scammed twice, once by a con who spent a month building trust before springing a $90K overpayment trap, once by a fake businessman harvesting content through paid samples. Both were sophisticated, and both exploited blind spots every…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 9, 2026
GPT-5's August 2025 launch brought a user revolt, security failures, and 5.4x token bloat, and chasing benchmark scores is chasing your own tail while smarter competitors quietly pull ahead. The point was never the newest model. It is choosing tools…
BusinessFebruary 9, 2026
GeoCities gave 38 million people their very first website, then Yahoo bought it for $3.57 billion and erased it. It began in 1994 with David Bohnett reading about the web on a plane and betting his livelihood on it. Here…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 9, 2026
After six months treating AI assistants like roommates, the verdict: Claude wins for serious work despite the higher price, ChatGPT is reliable backup, Grok has improved but still has personality issues, and Copilot and Gemini fill narrow niches. The real…
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 8, 2026
Copilot and ChatGPT are both writing assistants, but they were built on opposite philosophies, one finishes tasks inside the tools you already use, the other generates open-ended ideas from scratch. Which you want depends on what you are doing right…
BusinessFebruary 8, 2026
Five young developers came to a dim restaurant for career advice, brimming with confidence about microservices and cloud-native everything, and had no idea what was coming. Forty years of IT disasters teach you about Murphy's Law and how fragile everything…
CybersecurityFebruary 8, 2026
Testing is the hardest job in most IT departments and the place projects quietly die. After years in operations, the sheer lack of it still stuns me, shipped code that would not run, programs never tested at all. Real testing…
CybersecurityFebruary 8, 2026
I have been online since dial-up and working with computers since the 1970s, back before the internet had pictures. Four decades in, I have learned safety the hard way and by watching others pay for their mistakes. This is not…
Book MarketingFebruary 8, 2026
If you have ever commented on a blog and gotten a faceless gray silhouette, Gravatar is the fix, a single profile image linked to your email that follows you across thousands of sites automatically. I get asked about it constantly.…
CybersecurityFebruary 5, 2026
Security is mostly dull work nobody wants to do, patching, access reviews, backups, and it is also the entire job. Two decades in, the one time everything broke, it was backups that saved us, barely: a triple failure, snapped tapes,…
CybersecurityJanuary 29, 2026
Attackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
CybersecurityJanuary 22, 2026
I wrote a company's security policies against NIST CSF and 800-53, and now I ghostwrite books for the leaders who do this work. Most policy documents fail for two reasons: nobody knows who owns each step, and nobody knows which…
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