This Week’s Links
The ongoing struggle with XMLRPC led to the weekly blog links not getting posted earlier today, so here there are, manually. Here’s hoping I can get it work next week, this is too much like work. 😉
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The ongoing struggle with XMLRPC led to the weekly blog links not getting posted earlier today, so here there are, manually. Here’s hoping I can get it work next week, this is too much like work. 😉
Follow these topics: Links
If you’re already using a VPN when you travel, because hotel wifi and Starbucks wifi are not secure, go ahead and fire up that VPN tool even when you’re at home now, because your ISP might be tracking you and selling off that data too. But, also understand that the ISP is selling off chunks…
These are good, and really they are three aspects of the same issue, communication. As a remote worker myself for the last few years, it is incredibly easy to feel cut off from the rest of the organization unless everyone involved makes a concerted effort to communicate. This goes double, triple, or more, if the…
We’ve recently been going through some vendor vetting at work, which requires a lot of time meeting a lot of people and listening to a lot of things. The one thing that has struck me over and over again is how often people in the room at these meetings either already know one another from…
An unnamed US intelligence official was quoted by NBC News as calling the leak of contractor Ian Mellul’s e-mails “the most damaging compromise of the security of the president of the United States that I’ve seen in decades”—one caused by the use of an outside personal e-mail account for government business. The e-mails included full…
I’ve been critical of Google Plus, but after seeing how Facebook is stepping up their game, making friends lists easier, and letting people subscribe to things I make public on my profile without having to be confirmed friends with me, I think maybe I should thank Google for pushing the limits and giving FB some…
Yeah, this. I’ve gone through this myself this year, and I’ve watched other people I know go through it too. Use your network, and if you know someone looking, let them use your network too. Throughout my career, I only hired past employees, colleagues, and professionals sourced from the trusted parts of my network (including…