Author: AppendOverwrite.com
Last week I posted I’m still hoping to keep posting Well, with some new responsibilities I have, I’m going to have to pause this blog for a bit. I hope to start it up again in the next month or so, but you can check back occasionally, or follow @AppendOverwrite on Twitter.
Between pulling an all-nighter at work last week, and the catch-up that followed, and a busy and stressful week this week, I’ve missed two deadlines here. I’m still hoping to keep posting, but you might not get anything until next week.
November 21, 2016. I once heard Leo Laporte say in the course of one of his podcasts netcasts that if you use a service and can’t tell someone what that service’s product is (in regard to making money), you, the user, are the product. As I think that through, there is a lot of truth in that. […]
Well, here’s the first of the “I’ve got nothing to write” posts. The past week was fairly slow in tech news and highly political which isn’t an arena I’m interested in entering. So, for now, I’ve got nothing. Sorry folks.
I have a co-worker who has made the point that you never say “The building (or network) is secure.” You say “The building appears secure.” His years of experience in security and I.T. have taught him well. I’ve spent the past week pondering to what extent true digital security exists. We experience varying levels of […]
A note to lead this off: Unless otherwise noted, I refer to laptops/notebooks and desktops as PCs regardless of whether they run MacOS or Windows. So when you see “PC” here it will be making a distinction between gadgets like phones and tablets, and non-mobile and less mobile devices. October 29, 2016. This week the […]
To anyone who stumbles across this site, an obvious question would be “Why does this exist?” The purpose of this site is primarily to give me an outlet and an impetus to regularly write. I chose to write about technology since it interests me and is a broad field with many products, plots, and players. It […]
On Friday, October 10th, 2016, cyber attacks on an extremely large scale targeted a deep level Internet infrastructure providing company called Dyn. The attacks resulted in many internet traffic problems, especially on the East Coast, and resulted in a large number of prominent sites and services being down entirely. Visa, PayPal, Reddit, and Amazon were […]
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