link Cuba Moves to Expand Internet Access for its Citizens Cuba moves to expand internet access for its citizens [http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/19/8811465/cuba-expand-internet-access-wifi-cost] > Cuba is one of the least connected countries in the Western hemisphere. The government says about 25 percent of its population has access to the internet, but most of those users
Phil Schiller and the Camera You Have With You I just got back from a fantastic vacation to Key West[1], and I was sure to snap lots of pictures, all with my iPhone [https://loopedsquare.ink/iphone-photography]. While I was out of town, though, I saw a lot of discussion about the Talk Show interview with Phil Schiller
iPhone Photography There's a certain joy in working with the tools that you have on hand and getting good results. I've always had a love of photography. I think I was about 11 or 12 when my parents gave me their film camera, which was a Nikon of
The iPad is my main computer Just before Christmas 2014, I upgraded from the iPad 3 [https://jsokoly.ghost.io/my-ipad-setup/] that I had been using to the iPad Air 2. I was really looking for the increased processor power and TouchID in the new device. What I didn't expect was that over the
My Podcasting Setup Recently, I've taken over as host of the Southern Fried Security Podcast [http://southernfriedsecurity.com], and last night I posted a picture of my setup on Twitter. I had a request to write up what all I'm using, so here's a quick rundown. Equipment
The 6 Hour Tourist - DC I love living near Washington, DC. I know that people look at me like I have antlers when they hear that I love this area, but it's true. There's a ton of great stuff to do, all within a relatively small area. Often, when folks come
The Journey to My First 5K This past weekend, I ran my very first 5K, the AFCEA Race for Excellence. If you had told me 6 months ago that I would run a 5K, I'd probably have laughed. If you had told me that I'd be the kind of guy who is
Apple Watch Try On Thoughts Over my lunch, I went to the Apple Store in Columbia to try out the Apple Watch. Now, I stayed up until 3am on the 10th and preordered the 42mm Space Gray Sport, but I really wanted to try one on to make sure that 42mm wasn't too
A Journey of To-Do Lists A while back, I made a comment on Twitter about how I just never "got" to-do lists. I understood that they worked for some people, but I just didn't see the point for myself. A couple of people agreed with me, a few disagreed, and I
Marvel Unlimited Review A few weeks back, I signed up for Marvel Unlimited, Marvel's digital subscription comic book service. I've read comics here and there as I grew up, and with all these comic movies that have come out in the last few years, I figured it was time
Screencast Recording My job responsibilities were recently expanded to recording some screencast type videos for our company. Screencasts can seem intimidating if you haven't ever done them before, but in reality, they've gotten incredibly easy to do, and to do well. Microphone First things first: You must have
Returning to Paper My last year of college, I got my first iPad and immediately switched to writing all of my notes on there. It was rather convenient for all the history classes I was taking, since I could have the book we were studying and all my notes in a single place.
The Promise of HealthKit I was listening to the most recent episode of MacBreak Weekly [http://twit.tv/show/macbreak-weekly/441] and Andy Ihnatko said something interesting while they were discussing some of the upcoming changes to HealthKit. He talked about how healthcare providers could eventually look at shared activity data to detect when
What Does My Best Creative Work Look Like? I don't really set "New Year's Resolutions" for myself. I tend to find that a few weeks later I've forgotten about whatever it was that I was all hyped for and gone back into the routines of life. But I do like
Starting Down the SCADA Rabbit Hole A week or so ago, a tweet [https://twitter.com/chrissistrunk/status/553006767660351490] by Chris Sistrunk [https://twitter.com/chrissistrunk] piqued my interest. It made me realize that while SCADA is a pretty important technology, I didn't really have much of an understanding of what went into it,
Bringing in 2015 on the Trail I love to hike. I always have, ever since I was back in Boy Scouts. Texas hiking, where I really got a taste for it is one thing, but I live in Maryland now, where there are tons of state and national parks all over the place. Sadly, though, I
What I've Been Listening To - 2014 2014 has been an interesting year for me. I've changed jobs, my wife joined me in living in Maryland, and my commute has gotten a few minutes longer. I've been listening to less music than usual, and more podcasts. That's not to say that
My Top Book List - 2014 The end of the year is a good time for making lists of things, so I thought I'd start the end with some of the good books I found this year. A lot of the good recommendations came from Adam Savage on Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project
Wire's Privacy Problems > "I raised this with Wire, and asked whether Wire can read the content of media and messages sent using their service. > They didn't answer that question. They did, however, remove the claim that messages can only be read by the user and recipient from their
Podcast Advertising From NPR: > Podcasts Rise in Popularity, Funded by Advertisers and Listeners: http://www.npr.org/2014/11/30/367544553/as-podcasts-rise-in-popularity-advertisers-pay-attention This struck a chord with me, I've been thinking about advertising in podcasts a lot lately. While I've been on the Southern Fried Security Podcast
Swype for iOS Quick Review Last week, Swype for iOS [https://appsto.re/us/RfQN2.i] went free, and since third party keyboards are a new thing for iOS, I thought I'd give one a shot. Swype has been around for quite a while on Android devices, and I have a lot of
Ireland 2014 - Part 1 The first week of October, my wife and I got back from an incredible vacation. Thanks to an overabundance of airline miles, we were able to fly out to Ireland for ten days, which my wife wanted to do for her graduation present. We spent a few days in Dublin,
Not with MY Twitter, You Don't! Lately, Twitter has been doing a lot of things that are getting people a little hot under the collar and saying "Well, not with MY Twitter, you don't!" First, Twitpic announced today [http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/] that they're closing their doors
Making Training Better It's easy to overlook internal training and it's importance. We've all sat through new employee orientations at client sites or jobs that all kind of boiled down to the same old stuff. "Talk to these people if you need that thing, don'
Four Years of SecurityBSides Four years ago this year, I gave my first talk at a SecurityBSides [http://securitybsides.org] event. It was BSidesAustin 2010, and I gave a talk called "The Young and the Restless, or Breaking In is Hard to Do." I was 20 years old at the time and
