Author Archives: admin
Nature and Technology
The contention that nature and technology are incompatible has offered me great opportunity over the years. It is fun to play on stereotypes not be demonstrating they are over stated but by demonstrating they have it backwards. I never thought … Continue reading
New Amazon/Kindle services
Amazon has two new services that may be of interest to Kindle users. First. you now can store up to 5 gigabytes of documents using your Kindle account. You may have already sent pdfs to be read on the Kindle, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on New Amazon/Kindle services
Password vault
After posting yesterday about the challenge of changing passwords, today I came across this tutorial from Leo Laporte describing the installation and use of LastPass. Too much time devoted to the selection of a master password, but the rest is … Continue reading
Passwords and Heartbleed
Yahoo! sent an email yesterday indicating that because of the Heartbleed vulnerability, my account was being locked and I needed to go through a process to change my password. I am a heavy Flickr user so this required a response. … Continue reading
New online threat
This has been all over the Internet this evening – the heartbleed bug. Here is an description from TechCrunch. For more information. Mashable suggestions for the sites that require password changes.
Years of living dangerously
Showtime has a new series focused on climate change – Years of Living Dangerously. Despite the position of the anti-science nay-sayers, this is an important issues. Like misrepresenting the Affordable Care Act as Obamacare, climate change has sometimes been called … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Years of living dangerously
You must be logged in to post a comment.