Sep 17, 2019 | Maps and Infographics, Writing
In my book, A Heaven for Toasters (which, by the way, is FREE until the 20th), a zoomer (flying car) is hacked and made to crash. As with all things futuristic, I based this on current trends. One of these is the so-called Internet of Things: a common language that...
Mar 16, 2019 | Random Musings
This hasn’t been a good week for web companies. Facebook, WhatsUp, Instagram, Google Drive, and Gmail came under unspecified attacks and had trouble or even went offline for hours. In the case of Facebook, the troubles lasted some 48 hours, making this the worst...
Jan 29, 2019 | Random Musings
This is an unusual topic, but it touches upon so many of us that I had to ask: have you received one of those threatening emails that claim to have hacked your computer and/or camera and recorded you pleasing yourself? They then ask for a large amount of money paid in...
Apr 8, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing
I keep receiving tweets and DMs with shortened links that lead to non-existent pages. Even worse, they lead to the kind of page that crashes your PC and has you worried that you’ve caught a virus. Obviously, it’s not my friends that have sent me this, but...