Business7:03 AM, driving to a Renaissance Faire shoot with camera gear rattling in the back, the BlackBerry buzzes: what do you want me to do about the computer crash? A cascade of failures had taken the servers, the backups, and…
BusinessThe Martian captured the raw tension of survival; Red Mars painted a future both thrilling and terrifying. But the pull of a Mars mission was never really the plot lines for me. It is what actually going would change about…
CybersecurityI 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 IntelligenceGPT-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…
BusinessGeoCities 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 IntelligenceAfter 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 IntelligenceCopilot 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…
BusinessFive 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…
CybersecurityTesting 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…
CybersecurityI 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 MarketingIf 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.…
CybersecuritySecurity 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,…
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