Should We Take Offense

Recently I posted a comment to a blog. As always I left a way for the blog owner to be able to contact me. They did just that and took me to task over my comment. I replied and clarified and all is now...
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Data Recovery 101

I’ve been reading a lot recently and even had an email or two as well as an uncle requesting my personal services with regards to data recovery. So it has caused me to think, can I add my own recipe...
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Why Use Personal Firewalls.

Adam (aka @wvpv) recently commented on my Personal Firewalls post. He said: Personal firewalls are too confusing for non-technical people, in my experience. It’s the whole pop-up thing, I think....
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Safe(r) Web Browsing.

In a recent post I talked about not controlling what my children click on. Well this is only partially true. I don’t monitor or log their keystrokes or any other form of intrusive monitoring but...
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Personal Firewalls

Long term readers of this blog will know that I am keen on personal security from the computer perspective and also that I am keen on windows users installing personal firewalls. My friends will tell you...
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Farewell is NOT Goodbye

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” ~ Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan, Annie Tomorrow we say goodbye to our teenager. He’s off back to his 2nd year...
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