(Note, Aug. 31, 2024: I just discovered that WordPress, at some point for some reason deleted every one of the personal photos I’d included here.) I’ve been tagged. Lumpy tagged me with her Fluff Five Meme. Having never been tagged before, and still trying to understand exactly what a meme is, I decided to participate … Continue reading Haven’t played tag since I was a kid, but here goes …
It appears that the current election cycle is attracting most of Pied Type’s readers, followed by economic issues. Clearly the favorite topic here in the last few months has been the campaign, and the top draw by far is really only a link to a quiz on another site. Will Pied Type fall back into … Continue reading Riding the election wave; what’s next?
Hackers, for a number of years, have been the driving force behind the security measures instituted on the Internet. Virtually every website that asks us to enter a password or any sensitive personal information usually has in place security measures to protect our privacy from those dastardly hackers yearning to get their hands on our … Continue reading Who needs hackers?
The NSA, when it feels the need, listens in on our phone conversations. This so-called wiretapping takes many forms: bugging, tapping, intercepting, snooping through phone company records, etc. The technology these days is diverse and extremely sophisticated. It is all too easy, then, to imagine that if Google, for example, refuses a government request for … Continue reading Hacking Google
Hello, world. It’s me again. Perhaps only briefly this time, but who knows. I need someone to talk to, and have no one, so maybe here I’ll just talk to everyone. Or to no one. If a blog is written but never read, is it truly a blog? Or is it only a typing exercise … Continue reading In the beginning…
