Several months ago I started keeping closer tabs of customers who fell prey to foreign callers claiming to be from Microsoft. About one third of the people who walk…
Wednesday afternoon a customer asked me to back up a specific file and rather than bug her for a USB drive I figured I'd save time and copy it to…
I've held back long enough from talking about Apple, the feds and security. Frankly, I think we're satiated with news about iPhone security and me writing more on the subject…
Let's make money. Over the next few weeks I've decided to write a series of articles how we can tweak technology we may already own to maximize profits. Hopefully I'll…
I just turned on my computer for the first time in four days and it feels terrible. Thursday night after closing my doors for a much needed vacation I vowed…
Somehow this year I've managed to have four cell phones fail. Adding insult to injury I managed to not only lose one phone's data, but the backup I made a…
More than half a lifetime ago when I was establishing myself in New York one of the major selling points of the bank I chose was the vast number of…
Over the past six months I've noticed an interesting trend at the computer stores. Customers procrastinate getting their computer repaired for months. The story is always along the lines of…
Several years ago I wrote about online dating and how it's terribly miserable, and a couple months back I wrote about big data. This week I'm going to combine those…
An hour ago I finished watching all ten seasons of the television series Friends. Every night I'd fire up Netflix to see the latest shenanigans and relive that time in…
