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Data Breaches Target You

January 22, 2014
3 min read

Having been the victim of credit card theft in the past the recent breaches at Target remind me of the level of trust ...

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dasBlog (Blogging) Future

January 20, 2014
1 min read

I have been using dasBlog for years now, at the time I was looking for the most flexibility possible and in hindsight I ...

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UTF-8 Character Encoding in .NET

January 08, 2014
2 min read

Every year or so I manage to uncover a gap in my knowledge as it relates to strings, character sets, and encoding. I ...

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Data Capture Accusations

January 02, 2014
4 min read

Reports on the data capture techniques employed by the NSA are coming in thick and fast and I am trying to decipher ...

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Xbox Music API

December 23, 2013
3 min read

The introduction of the Xbox Music API begins what I hope is the first successful steps of a music platform. All these ...

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Android Giveth and Then Taketh Away

December 19, 2013
2 min read

Two recent posts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on the inclusion and subsequent removal of a very ...

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Privacy, Cloud Services and the Law

December 19, 2013
5 min read

I find myself constantly drawn into questions of how the law applies to various functions of my life as an avid ...

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The Monitor Profile Appears to be Defective

December 17, 2013
3 min read

I was recently able to upgrade my monitor for my main Windows 8 PC, which meant that my faithful Samsung would continue ...

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Download Google Data

December 16, 2013
1 min read

I am fierce advocate of owning your data, in fact I think you do yourself a disservice by plowing your precious time ...

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