Twitter Map You’re about to go on vacation.  Finally, no more work.  No more responsibilities.  You’re excited to get away and you want to rub your friend’s noses in it.  Without a thought, you pick up your phone and send out a Tweet.  “Kiss off, suckers.  I’m on my way to the beach!”  You probably didn’t even pay...

My spam filters work fairly well, but sometimes a bit gets through.  This is one of the recent and odd pieces of spam I received.  Oddly enough, it’s spoofed to come from a Hennepin County,Minnesota address.  I guess some government worker was surfing the wrong sites one day. Personally, I don’t expect that the woman in this photo is actually Oksana....

There are a lot of things to love about the Internet. You can find people with similar interests and shrink the geographic boundaries between you, allowing people from around the world to communicate. On the other hand, you can also find an amazing amount of information about people if you give it a thought. That’s why many people fear providing their real...

I originally posted article this on the Orlando Sentinel’s Sanford Community blog: Fear and ignorance. If you don’t understand something, it must be evil and sinister. Fear and ignorance. What better place to teach this system than in Seminole County Schools? The problem was clear. Kids only have a limited amount of time to go through the lunch line...

A year ago, Britons learned that Indian call centers were selling their private identity information. It sems there’s nothing new. SC Magazine reports that Indian call centers are still selling private credit card data on the black market. According to the article: The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) – adopted by the major credit...

One of the things that I enjoy about writing here is that it gives me time to think for myself.  I don’t have anyone else telling me what to think about.  I’m not forced to pay attention to anything except what I want.  It’s a good time to let me mind roam. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to do that for the past few...