Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • TED Talk: Open your library, share your story

    April 19, 2016
    Race / Racism

    A spoken word piece at TEDxUGA which I enjoyed.

  • Scary Password Policy

    April 19, 2016
    Cybersecurity

    Doing a training thing for work next week. The training coordinator sent an email to 25 of us about how to access the learning portal. The username is email and password is a single word with an exclamation point. My first instinct was get in ASAP and change the password since so many other people…

  • TED Talk: Star to universe

    April 12, 2016
    Quotes

    My first in person TEDxUGA was last year. I returned again this year. It opened with this spoken word poem to set this year’s theme: Illuminate.

  • Hangouts New Message Annoyance

    April 7, 2016
    Google

    In Gmail, the Google Hangouts icon showed I had a new message. If there is an indicator of something new, then I must clear it. Not an obsession or a compulsion, but it makes me uncomfortable to have unread things laying around. The conversation list only showed old items. There were a couple near the…

  • Resolution Progress 2016: First Quarter

    April 2, 2016
    Books / Novels / Writing, Goal Progress, Health / Medicine

      Read 75 books. I should be at 18.75 read by this point. So, 18 is pretty good. Hit 25,000 pages. I should be at 6,250 pages read, so my 6,270 is on pace. Finish series already started. I finished the Millennium series (one book) and make progress on both the Robot and Expanse series (4…

  • Phishy Corporate Communications

    March 28, 2016
    Cybersecurity

    Received an email that looked phishy: Greetings, Please read this important e-mail carefully. Recently you registered, transferred or modified the contact information for the following domain name: ezrasf.com In order to ensure your domain name remain active, you must now click the following link and follow the instructions provided. http://verify.domain.com/registrant/?verification_id=999999&key=BFrrpxGDbb&rid=999999 Sincerely, Domain Registrar The web…

  • Just Do It

    March 11, 2016
    Psychology

    The “just” part is the hard part. Ego depletion may not be real (another), but it certainly seems so for myself. Recently when stressed, I made lots and lots of bad decisions earlier in the day than normal. These tactics are essentially my own strategy for getting in gym almost every day: Chaining: Add it as…

  • Learning Tech

    March 11, 2016
    Books / Novels / Writing, Learning, Usability / Accessibility

    I learned electronics as a kid by messing around with old radios that were easy to tamper with because they were designed to be fixed. Lee Felsesnsteinin The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson The story I tell about how I ended up working in information…

  • Better Predictions

    March 10, 2016
    Metrics / Statistics

    13.7: Cosmos and Culture has a good article on predictions. Making good predictions isn’t just about your accuracy; it’s also about your calibration. Accuracy = how often correct Calibration = confidence level in the prediction All too often when we see predictions no one asks about the calibration. Nor do we go back and check the…

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