by Greg Scott | Sep 11, 2018 | Slice of Life
Years ago when I was trying to market my IT services, experts came out of the woodwork and told me I needed a gimmick to succeed. They had lots of ideas. One biggie was, do a direct mail campaign and hand-address the envelopes. That would make me stand out when...
by Greg Scott | Aug 19, 2018 | Memoir
Year 41 starts Sunday evening, August 19, 2018. To my wife, Tina – happy 40th wedding anniversary and thanks for staying married to me all these years. I remember these two young people from 1976. We were in my college dorm room in this picture. This had to...
by Greg Scott | Jun 13, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
I’ve written lots of blog posts about electronic data breaches and identity theft over the Internet. I even published a book about how a data breach might unfold, and another one about what might happen if a nation-state really does get serious about attacking...
by Greg Scott | Jun 7, 2018 | Cybersecurity
It was all over the news. Russian hackers are inside home Internet routers across America, spying on us, stealing our identities, meddling with elections, and who knows what else. But don’t worry – just reboot that little box with all the wires connected...
by Greg Scott | May 23, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
My friend and fellow author, Ann, and her husband found out one day they were identity theft victims because somebody hundreds of miles away filed a USPS change of address form in their name. It’s mind-boggling that in today’s era of massive data...
by Greg Scott | May 19, 2018 | Slice of Life
Many years ago, I spent hours and hours and hours listening to tapes about success and failure and the power of positive thinking. And they really were tapes. MP3 downloads weren’t invented yet. But despite all that good advice, for which I paid...
by Greg Scott | Apr 14, 2018 | Slice of Life
Remember when our grandparents talked about how they lived through the big one back in (pick your year)? Well, now, we have cell phone video and we can record history-in-the-making. Here are four videos and some still pictures from Eagan, Minnesota, USA, of the great...
by Greg Scott | Apr 1, 2018 | Technology
It’s fitting to post this on April 1. Because I have to wonder if Samsung thinks its customers are fools. The problem started with an update several months ago. After the update, my phone showed this weird lock screen when I woke it up after a battery...
by Greg Scott | Feb 17, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Technology
Way back in 2005, some friends and I set up a nonprofit named Operation America Cares. We offered free video services for American families connecting with loved ones serving overseas in the military. I have great memories from that period, but by 2010,...
by Greg Scott | Feb 12, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Technology
Many bloggers and small businesses build websites using service providers such as WordPress or Wix, and friends and family find them using names like mysite.wixsite.com, or mysite.wordpress.com. This is okay for a hobby. But it doesn’t work for anyone trying...
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