A national IQ test will be held on November 5th.

As I suspected. But it was worth a try.

I'm about to press Enter.

The TV news reported on Amazon's "return to the office or quit" ultimatum. My wife commented that she thinks Amazon is trying to do a workforce reduction without announcing layoffs, and that's an insightful analysis. It hadn't occurred to me, but it makes so much sense.

At a public utility in New England there are ten newly certified Wireshark Analysts. Now, I'm flying home to Seattle.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity #training

Yes, Facebook knows I'm in Boston this morning. This ad showed up in my Facebook feed. I want to emphasize that location-based advertising isn't inherently bad. This example is exactly how it's supposed to work.
Can location services be misused? Yes, of course. But for most people, this is all it is.

This is a new one for me - an FAA mandated flight delay! I'm traveling from Seattle to Boston, with a transfer here in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. I can't blame this on Delta. They told us the FAA is delaying flights into New England because the airspace is congested. Since I can't blame Delta, let's blame it on AI.

The past is a classroom, not a living room.

Dinner, anyone? I’m going to be working for a client in Berlin, Connecticut next week. If you’re in the area and would like to meet in person, let’s get together for dinner at a local restaurant. I can meet on October 16-18. No sales pitches, please, just socializing. Most restaurants can handle a group of six without reservations. I’ve got a dinner like this (four people so far) planned in Kennesaw, Georgia, in November, but nothing for Berlin.

#Cybersecurity #InformationTechnology

Both in the United Kingdom and the United States, it seems that the word "United" must be taken somewhat loosely.

Warning: Do NOT turn on the UPS if the circuit breaker is in high spirits.

Given the heightened tensions in the Middle East and the increasingly agitated rhetoric from the Kremlin, I advise all companies to think militarily. If you haven’t already done it, it’s time to download a local backup copy of ALL online data critical to business operations. This is no time to be leaving your data and 100% of your backups stored on military targets. And make no mistake – every cloud service provider is a military target.

The Outlook mobile app for Android doesn't provide any way to block an individual email address or a domain. You can mark an email as junk all you want, but Microsoft will still deliver email from that sender day after day. If you know of a way to block in the Outlook mobile app, please tell me.

This guy sent me a connection request on LinkedIn, which I accepted. He sent me this DM, which starts with praise, but then went bizarre.
When "Don't let me down" is his first interaction with a complete stranger, he's trying to define the nature of the relationship.
If I ignored it, he'd assume I accepted his definition.
I didn't ignore it.

Here's the convo on Threads where I cross-posted this.

Microsoft Edge is an advertising app with a convenient built-in browser extension.

In our house we have good cellular Internet and if the phones lose Wi-Fi they automatically failover to cellular, so it wouldn't work here.

After dinner tonight, I started walking toward my home office. A lot of the remote work I do for my clients has to be done after their normal business hours. I said to my wife, “I’m going to go do a firmware update on a firewall.”
She said, “Have fun.”
I said, “I will, actually.”
She said, “I know.”

The crows in the trees behind us are having a vigorous debate. It’s been going on for a few minutes now, and they show no signs of being ready to bring it to a vote. Whatever is happening, there is big news in the local Crow Kingdom.

Even when our computers are off, we're being watched!
#caturday