Your Guide to Online Business Success
How can you tell a legitimate email from a phishing email? Several years ago when my husband and I were figuring out how we could afford to get married and go to graduate school at the same time, I received an email from someone claiming to be a professor at a university in Oklahoma. The … Read more
Once we start talking about creating secure passwords, we need a way to keep track of all those passwords without losing our minds. LastPass is the option I’ve used for several years. If you don’t have an account yet, go here and either sign for a free enterprise trial (for you entrepreneurs with teams to … Read more
Is two-factor authentication just another buzzword? You’ve probably heard the buzz about two-factor authentication and wondered what it was or if it was even relevant to you. Does it really matter? Should you enable it? Is it anything more than just an annoyance? So here’s the deal. Our entire lives are online, right? Not just … Read more
Sometimes it feels like the Internet owns us. Practically everything we do we can do online–our shopping, our interaction with friends, our research… We have accounts everywhere and could feasibly live almost our entire lives without ever leaving the house. (Not that it would be healthy to do so. But it would be possible.) With … Read more
Creating secure passwords is annoying, right? Like, how am I supposed to create a secure password with the right number of letters, numbers, symbols, and length… And then actually remember it, and the other one-hundred-thousand-million passwords I have, and every other little aspect of life that I’m supposed to remember as a mom? I mean, … Read more
My husband’s and my love story is the stuff of every little girl’s dreams. (I say this with a hint of sarcasm.) I first caught my husband’s eye because he saw me writing code. He’s an elaborate storyteller, and he loves to tell people about how we met. He tells about how his hopes were … Read more
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” Recently I’ve been hearing about The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. The title intrigued me and the trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation even more so. And so it was that, armed with a Barnes and Noble gift card … Read more
As a friend (hi, Amy!) so astutely observed Wednesday, I have not blogged at all this month. I may or may not have a valid excuse. On June 20, Jordan left for Canada for a reverse-engineering conference. I was originally supposed to go with him, but funny things happened with employer budgets and plans, and … Read more
Jordan has a way of saying things that are eminently quotable. Today, for example, we were discussing assembly language and compilers and how sometimes you don’t really know what a program does until you look at the assembly. He said, “Compilers and preprocessors will lie to you. Assemblers won’t. Assemblers are like the little kid … Read more
Recently people at work have been talking about the movie Minority Report in reference to this story. In a nutshell, Nordstrom is using your phone’s attempts to connect to WiFi access points in order to pinpoint which departments you’re spending time in–rather like the personalized ads that bombard the inhabitants of the Minority Report world. … Read more