Author: Ian Sharland
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Building out the spare bedroom
You’d think that, four months after we’d moved in, that the large renovations and changes were complete. If only. Much of our time the last little while has been spent in the garden, or on work projects. But August is creeping closer to us, and that doesn’t leave much time for us to finish off… Read more
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We visited Jasper National Park
We haven’t travelled much – other than where we’ve had to travel for work – since arriving in Canada more than a year ago. It’s understandable. We’ve had to move houses (three times), get settled into our new house and CF needed to get settled in her new job. After a year of extremely hard… Read more
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A year in Canada
It feels like we left SA for our new home only a few months ago. This Saturday, however, saw us mark a full year in our new home in Canada. Read more
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Windows Recall – just because you can doesn’t mean you should
Microsoft Recall is one of the most dangerous and unnecessary ‘features’ in consumer or enterprise software. It shows a fundamental lapse of both common sense and enterprise/cybersecurity risk management in a business that claims cybersecurity must be at the forefront of what they do. Microsoft should ‘recall’ it entirely. Read more
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Ads suck so why not get rid of them?
You’ll be shocked to know I’m not a marketer, or an ad-person. I’m pretty much the opposite of that. So when I say internet ads suck I really mean that the experience of internet ads suck. From the bright glitzy pop up and banner ads to the more muted static ads, every site has them… Read more
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Turning our garage into a ga-range
Spring has finally sprung in our part of the world. The trees all have their new leaves, the grass (our gardens of sadness/possibility notwithstanding) has greened up and is growing rapidly, and we’re starting to see more insects around. People are getting outdoors again, properly. Naturally this is the perfect time for me to set… Read more
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IKEA? I seeya.
Last week was a week where I didn’t have much to say. So instead of putting out any old blog post, I simply decided to say nothing. This week, however, was more interesting. We took a break away from home, and visited friends of ours in Edmonton for an extra long weekend. Truthfully, we both… Read more
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Food costs in northern Alberta
It’s one of the first questions I get when South Africans hear I live in Canada now, : “What does food cost? Is it more expensive than SA?”. And it’s quickly followed by “do they have decent meat?” Beef and venison The third question is the easiest of the three to answer. Alberta has great… Read more
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Conversations
Some weeks I’m better at writing blog posts than others. This week is an other week, it seems. Although I’ve got a list of things I can and would like to write about, I find myself here, at 9pm on a Sunday evening, writing the blog post for tomorrow morning and it feels like pulling… Read more
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Generative AI and offensive cybersec
AI, like most disruptive technology, has generated plenty of risk/reward discussion. In the cybersecurity world, there have been plenty of these discussions too. The most commonly discussed risks I see are: 1) The cybersec risks to the AI model itself. For example data leakage risks where the model presents information to the end user that… Read more