The (Other) End of the Internet

I spent a good part of this morning working on setting up another blog I intend to start maintaining. I’m not going to give out it’s name or URL yet because at the moment there’s nothing there.
This new blog is going to be specifically about cameras, camera accessories, and photography. My wife found a wordpress […]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently trying to learn how to make it impossible for someone with a laptop to park down the road from my house and use my internet connection and any shared resources I have on any of these computers.
Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve learned:

DO NOT use WEP […]

I had a bit of a fright the other day. I was looking around the internet trying to learn about wireless network security when I happened upon an article detailing “How To Crack 128-bit Wireless Networks In 60 Seconds“. I’m not posting that link as a tutorial on how to steal your neighbor’s internet account, […]

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the comment that the best way to deal with SPAM emails is to delete them unread - preferrably with some sort of filtering software to automate the process.
I prefer to take a more pro-active approach

As a budding photographer I occasionally find myself wanting to post images online so I can show them off, but I don’t want everyone who sees them to be able to steal them. There are several ways to make this more difficult, […]

Like a lot of other people, I use Thingamablog 1.06 to maintain this blog. It’s easy and, most importantly, it’s FREE.
I happen to know that in a few days someone who is new to blogging in general (you know who you are) is going to ask me for instruction on how to use this software […]

One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with a digital camera is that bigger is definitely better. A large picture can be scaled down with no real problems. Some information (image detail) is lost in the reduction, but the resulting image is to small to show the difference anyway. The problems arise […]

So, you’ve finally gone off the deep end and put up your first weblog. Now the first thing you’re going to want to do is get people to read it, right? After all, what good is a blog if the only person to read it is the one who wrote it? That’s rather like Robinson […]