Are you an unwitting stalking accomplice?
At least once a week, someone on Twitter or Facebook will share a picture describing a missing person (usually a child) with one or more phone numbers to call. Our immediate reaction is to...
Author: Jesse
Is Tor Permanently Broken?
Federal law enforcement seems to have decided that anonymizing networks are public enemy number one. They’ve racked up some impressive wins in taking down drug-trading market Silk Road, notorious child pornography site Lolita City,...
Barefoot Children
Today was my morning to get Liam ready for school. He came in and woke us up before the alarm went off (which almost never happens) and was well before there was any hint...
Let’s have a chat about gaming
Some of you gamers are really ruining it for the rest of us. You’ve threatened a game developer into fleeing her home for no discernable reason, you’ve overreacted to a clear breach of journalistic...
There’s no such thing as safe sext
Put down your pitchforks, your social justice warrior shrieking about “slut-shaming”, and your righteous indignation about, well, everything. It’s time to have a much-needed expounding upon my call to take more responsibility for the...
Notes on Duck Eggs
We’ve been fortunate enough since moving to Cedar City to come upon a near unlimited supply of duck eggs. In exchange for about 1.5 gallons of fruit and veggie scraps, we get about a...
Prepaid Showdown: T-Mobile vs Cricket
Once we got relocated to Cedar City, we found a major problem: T-Mobile’s service makes Sprint look good. I suppose this is to be expected. Despite great performance in SLC, Las Vegas, Sacramento, and...
Google just did an end-run around your mobile phone company
I’ve been a user and fan of Google Voice since it was still GrandCentral. From its humble beginnings of a “phone number for life” to ring your other phones to full desktop calling and...
You have to take responsibility for your own personal security
Friends, let’s have a little chat. Most of you have probably already heard about the iCloud compromise that sent hundreds of nude pictures of female celebrities racing across the Internet (including a few less-than-legal ones...
First World Problem: MC Frontalot vs Weird Al Yankovic
Uh oh. Weird Al Yankovic has a new album leaking out and it looks like we now have competition for song about first world problems. Seriously. Here’s MC Frontalot’s version: And now Weird Al’s...