Linked – Kansas City Building a New Billion-Dollar Terminal
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Linked – Kansas City Building a New Billion-Dollar Terminal

I like Kansas City, I’ve had a few good trips there, and met some great people. The airport though, well let me tell you a story. The last time I was there for work, I got to the airport after checking out of my hotel thinking I’d grab lunch before my flight home. This was…

Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport
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Linked – Man Finds USB Drive With Vital Security Information on Heathrow Airport

This is less than ideal, but honestly, I’ve worked in the industry long enough to totally see how it happens. Someone needed to take this somewhere, or send it to someone, and just copied it without giving a second thought to what would happen if it got lost. “Now we can add Heathrow Airport to…

Linked – Pittsburgh Airport Opens Terminal to Non-Travelers
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Linked – Pittsburgh Airport Opens Terminal to Non-Travelers

I’m not real sure about this: While historically only there so passengers have a place to grab a bite or maybe pick up a last-minute souvenir, airports like DFW are taking airside concessions to the extreme with the hope that originating and connecting passengers will make the airport itself a shopping destination. If that’s the…

Linked – Hackers Will Soon Be Trying to Send Your Driverless Car Off a Cliff
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Linked – Hackers Will Soon Be Trying to Send Your Driverless Car Off a Cliff

Fooling your cars GPS system into believing you are somewhere else, apparently, has already been done: “In December, CNN confirmed that instead of showing the cars where they really were — cruising along the Moskva River — the GPS suddenly insisted the cars were 20 miles away, at the Vnukovo International Airport.” What’s next? How…

Linked – ProtonMail makes its free VPN service available to everyone
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Linked – ProtonMail makes its free VPN service available to everyone

“ProtonMail, the encrypted email created by CERN and MIT scientists, has released a new product in response to the administration’s roll back of Obama-era internet privacy rules. Starting today, you can try out the company’s VPN service, which was in beta testing by 10,000 initial users for a year, by getting it from the official…

Life Goes By So Fast – So Long Travel and Training, and Hello Baton Rouge
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Life Goes By So Fast – So Long Travel and Training, and Hello Baton Rouge

By the time this posts, I should be getting ready to take my last trip as a trainer for Nuix. I’ve shared this news in bits and pieces to some of the people in my life, but now it’s time to go “blog and social media public”, while also explaining a little bit about why….