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The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2001 – 2013)
This is a continuing short run series of blogs summarizing old drafts and either declaring them dead, while listing them here, or keeping them as they are still relevant. Part 1 – The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2010 – 2013)Part 2 – The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2014 – 2015)Part 3 – The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2016…
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Windows 10 Fails
[This was originally started on 2021-03-07, adding notes from months before that. Given the time that has passed, I will not finish this but wanted to post my notes, as is.] windows is X years old, and despite the bloating and bugs, they still haven’t figured out some pretty basic UI/UX things. these are the…
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The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2016 – 2020)
This is a continuing short run series of blogs summarizing old drafts and either declaring them dead, while listing them here, or keeping them as they are still relevant. Part 1 – The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2010 – 2013)Part 2 – The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2014 – 2015) Part three: Interestingly enough, I found a…
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The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2014 – 2015)
After my last blog on the draft graveyard, which was the first, I am down to 117 that go back to 2014. Twelve years is a bit too long to sit on a blog typically. So like before, here are ideas I had to write about but never did. What is really interesting to me…
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Reason #42 Why InfoSec Has Failed
Building on a prior post, with an admittedly arbitrary number that seems to be about right as far as the number of reasons, and more in this series coming in the future… This is a quick story to give readers an idea of just how bad our industry really is. This is not anecdotal either,…
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My Lego Build: The Revolt
It started with an amusing meme of a Lego squirrel about to cut a park ranger. That 10×10 tiny build was the inspiration for a much bigger version of it, that kept expanding. Trying to recreate even the small version provided a challenge, going through BrickLinks to find the ranger top, hat, knife, and even…
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The Jericho Blog Graveyard (2010 – 2013)
I’ve been sitting on 145 drafts in this blog, many going back as far as 2010. Slowly going through them, I try to figure out what my point was in some cases due to anemic notes. For others the decision is if it is still worth publishing. If so, do I bring it to today’s…
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Voting Rigged to Keep the Two-party System
In Colorado, if you are not registered with political affiliation, you are given two ballots; one Democrat and one Republican. This forces you to vote along party lines even if you do not fully support either party. Why not? Forcing people to vote along party lines is why we’re stuck in a two-party system as…
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My Pledge re: so-called AI and this Blog
With the prevalence of so-called artificial intelligence (AI), the amount of people turning to it to the technology to help them write, or fully write, content is growing quickly. While it may be getting more difficult to detect assisted writing and generative images, it is still fairly easy and reliable. Regardless, I want to be…
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Zero Day Clock – All The Pieces Matter
Last week, a colleague shared a link to the “Zero Day Clock“, a web site that has a substantial number of signatories, including some big names. I want to talk extensively about the clock because it makes at least one significant mistake and points out what the data means along with a comparison to another…