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.
- 2014 – “Android Annoyances” is as the title describes, centered around upgrading and importing stuff I didn’t want, auto-correcting me still after fixing something back the way I wanted three times, and how stupid it censors me as an adult.
- 2014 – “Android Goes Downhill” was yet another on annoyances around changes in notifications versus permissions, as well as it being near impossible to find a central list of Android vulnerabilities (other than commercial intelligence), how so many did not have CVE identifiers, and how patch information was difficult to locate.
- 2014 – “Curmudgeon Corollary” about why people follow and trust what others say. Some because they are assholes/curmudgeons, some because of window dressings at best.
- 2014 – A two line reminder to tell a story on serious ‘fail’, that I wrote and published on March 16, 2026.
- 2014 – Some notes on dating, a day ahead of me going on a date that I don’t remember now. Must not have been stellar…
- 2015 – Extensive notes and timelines about the Amiigo activity tracker and all the problems. Instead of killing it, now published.
- 2015 – “so you want to be a rehabber” was the start of notes about what it was like as a volunteer doing wildlife rehabilitation in Colorado. Not enough notes worth keeping, I will likely write on this topic more in the future.
- 2015 – “Skill / Disguise” was a rare for me fun blog, linking several examples of professionals in disguise (typically to look much older), showing off in public. Example #1, Example #2, Example #3
- 2015 – The start of notes on my ideas for “building the perfect zoo”, with a notable line “people are a distant second thought”
- 2015 – “dear movie industry” with gripes about treating me like a criminal between security tags and threats of five years in jail or $250k fine, with a variety of mismatch cases that often have broken pieces meaning the movie doesn’t stay in place and gets scratched, and more.
- 2015 – “Bandwagon Security; We knew it was coming…”, damn I wish I would have finished this one at the time. I point out how ‘cybersecurity’ startups seem to be a bandwagon phenomenon using two examples (the first, no longer in business!) and the second a kickstarter. Dissecting how even from the start there were signs of obvious problems.
- 2015 – “you are not a special snowflake (predicting Experian breach)” was calling out a blog (404, not in Wayback unfortunately) that thought they were cool for supposedly predicting that breach. The writing was all over every wall…
What is really interesting to me is that I am left with nine blogs from 2015 that all still have merit, still viable, and relevant today. Those will stay in drafts for now.