As the week went on, I didn’t feel like I learned much, then again, it was a short work week.

• We finally went to Thai Ginger Bistro, a new restaurant in town that had numerous delays in opening even before the pandemic, and finally opened in the last few weeks. I heard about their Facebook page, but realized they have no Web site of their own. Under their full control. With things like online ordering. I would have hoped with the lack of control people have on social media platforms, not to mention people leaving them, that businesses still solely rely on Facebook for their presence online. Fortunately their food is delicious and I will be back.
• Have you ever taken a screenshot of something and posted it online, and used basic editing features to mask sensitive information? If so, or have thought of this, watch this great video from my college Andrew on the blog for his service Proceed.app, where he describes the proper and most effective way to obscure sensitive information for anything you post online, or in his app for documenting processes.
• French’s makes a Dijon mustard that is delicious, and rivals any true authentic French (without the apostrophe S) mustard. Thanks for the tip from John C. Dvorak who mentioned it on his news analysis podcast (of all places) The No Agenda Show.
• Piers Fawkes shared an email with items in the same vein as this post, and one of them was on “mi casa, your casa”, a social art exhibition where house “frames” have hammocks in them, and can these days be positioned six feet or more apart. Though nothing new, it fits well in today’s world.
• I worked for Larry Moore back in the dot-com days, and I still remember the conversation I had with him and others after the 2000 election on how to technology can be used to securely and efficiently eliminate the issues in voting then, and today. Larry went on to work with firms in this space, and is now on the advocacy side. Listen to this podcast interview with him and learn about tech in voting, even if you think it’s the furthest from what we need now.
• I don’t talk nearly about Nextcloud, the self-hosted private cloud platform, as much as I should. They just announced the features for the next version of the Nextcloud iPhone app, and I am looking forward to seeing it when the next version of iOS comes out. Clearly I need to share more so that you can understand my excitement over this.
• When is the last time you checked the links on your Web site? Try Dead Link Checker probably one of the best tools I have found out there to do so.
• Debbie Harry turned 75 this week. I found this out along with this video of her singing the Blondie classic Call Me with The Muppets. Happy Birthday to this rock diva!
• I finally turned in the Rice Bowl to my church. For those unfamiliar, a Rice Bowl is a way to raise funds for Catholic Relief Services over Lent. As Easter came and went without going to church, I held onto it, placing whatever loose change I had in there. It came to $28.51. So I cashed it in with one of those Coinstar machines, took the amount as a Starbucks gift card so I wouldn’t lose any money from it, then sent a check to the church for the full amount.

Happy Independence Day!

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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