A Week With the Windows Phone 8.1 Preview
Six days into running the free Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview on my Lumia 1020, with some real opinions on Cortana, Word Flow, and the Action Center.
The Trusty Tahr Weekend
Upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS while finally finishing my Heartbleed cleanup, plus a detour into the Kepler-186f news that popped up in my RSS reader mid-upgrade.
Fine, I Finally Set Up a Password Manager
Eleven days after Heartbleed, I finally sat down and set up a real password manager instead of my old three-password system. Here's what that actually involved.
The Day Anyone Could Buy Google Glass
Google let anyone in the US buy a $1,500 pair of Glass for one day only, and I talked myself out of it by the end of the afternoon.
My Heartbleed Password Cleanup, One Annoying Site at a Time
A week after Heartbleed broke, Im still working through my password list site by site. Heres the actual checklist Im using, plus which services still werent safe to touch as of this week.
My Heartbleed Weekend: A Password Graveyard
A weekend lost to changing every password I own after Heartbleed, plus a bank site that caps passwords at 12 characters and a cat that locked me out of my credit union.
The Heartbleed Password Weekend
A weekend spent changing passwords after Heartbleed, and the annoying truth that changing them too early does nothing at all.
My Heartbleed Weekend
A weekend spent patching OpenSSL, revoking certs, and changing forty-plus passwords after Heartbleed, plus a side note on Windows XP's end of support the same week.
Changing Every Password I Own
Two hours, thirty passwords, and a lot of grumbling about GoDaddy's support queue after Heartbleed, plus a side rant about the four Windows XP machines still running in my office.
The Great Password Reset Weekend
A weekend spent checking sites for Heartbleed, figuring out when password resets actually matter, and finally setting up two-factor auth I'd been putting off.
My Roku Just Got a Little Embarrassed
Amazon's new Fire TV box has better specs than my Roku 3 and now I'm second-guessing a purchase I was perfectly happy with a week ago.
Amazon Fire TV and My Increasingly Crowded TV Cabinet
Amazon's new $99 Fire TV box launched this week, and after three streaming devices already cluttering my TV cabinet, I'm not sure I needed a fourth.