We’re transferring our retail operations at Energion Publications (which includes Neufeld Computer Services) to the Aer.io platform. As part of this process, I wanted to import these products into a WooCommerce store as affiliate links. An Aside Why do I want to gather affiliate links to my own store...
Happenings
Why Computer Security Is Not an Individual Issue
“I really don’t pay much attention to security,” the potential client told me. “I don’t have anything on my computer that anyone would want to steal.” There was a time when that would have been an almost valid idea. If you didn’t do your finances on your computer and...
Amazon PrimePantry and a Reflection
I heard a couple of guys talking the other day about how the big box stores are dying one by one. Somewhere in the discussion they indicated that they thought this would be a wonderful thing and that small local stores would replace them. That’s not the direction things...
Amazon Promotional Code: Computers
Amazon.com has a promotion code that appears good for a laptop computer. I’m posting this here despite not being acquainted with the brand, because it looks like good features for the price. Clicking on the link to follow applies the code: Save 15.0% on select products from CHUWI with...
From opensource.com, 15 books for kids who (you want to) love Linux and open source, Plus, three books for babies. Its’a good list. I’ve added some of these books to my Open Source Software page.
An Avast Premier Partner
I’m actually announcing this somewhat late, but I am now an Avast Premier Partner, indicating that I have taken training in both sales and technical aspects of their software. I build my support for small businesses around their Managed Workplace and Cloudcare solutions, and use their end point security...
Learning Facebook
I think one of the questions we should ask about politicians seeking office is whether they have a grasp of modern technology and its impact on society. By this I don’t mean that they can identify a few social media sites, but rather that they understand how these things...
I posted on March 23 about how security and convenience conflict. I just found some numbers on one of my favorite sites, FiveThirtyEight.com. Their article The Trouble With Leaving Facebook Is That We Like Facebook explains the data.
Convenience and Security Conflict
More than a decade ago I was called in to do some work on the computer used by an office receptionist. After hearing the explanation, I sat down for what would be a rather easy job. Moments later, the receptionist interrupted me and said, “I guess you’ll need my...
Of Algorithms and News
I intensely dislike fake news or, for that matter, slanted news. I do believe that the term “fake news” should be limited to things that are totally made up, not things in which the reporting is slanted, or in which poor conclusions are drawn. People were and are justified...