A series of small bits of wisdom that have helped me, at 40, become the happiest I’ve ever been in my life by remembering to review them each week, and try to live by them as much as I can. I share them with you with the hope that they’ll resonate with someone who is reading through them and provide…
Being in charge of security for anything is a lose-lose proposition
The resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson prompted a discussion between a friend and I about jobs that focus on being in charge of the security of something. For the purpose of our discussion, the something didn’t have to be the President of the United States. It can be the security of a campus network, a physical structure, or something…
Blog post of extremely limited usefulness – ColdFusion 11, Mac OS X and MAMP
This post will admittedly have a very small audience, but for those of you who do stumble on to it while trying to get ColdFusion 11 installed and configured in a development environment on OS X using MAMP, you’ll hopefully find it very helpful. By default, the web server connectors that ship with ColdFusion 11 (including the Apache connector for…
Multi-factor Authentication Is Simple Enough Now That Everyone Should Be Using It
Multi-factor Authentication (also sometimes called Two-Factor authentication) is a method provided by many sites and services to help their users better secure access to their accounts. For the remainder of this post, I’ll use MFA for short. Most major web services now offer some sort of MFA, and over the last several years, integrating the use of MFA in to…
Exchange Server, Mail.app, Alias Addresses and the unnecessary self CC on “Reply all”
If you’re using Apple’s Mail.app in conjunction with an Exchange server where you have an account that is also configured to use an alias address, you may have encountered an odd problem where anytime you hit “Reply All” to a message, your alias address is included on the CC line of the email. This had been happening to me for…