A photographer in Minneapolis
Your hard drive crashes – you turn to that expensive NAS you so wisely installed as a backup – and find it’s empty, wiped out by a malicious hacker. It’s happened. But it can’t, if your storage has an air gap around it.
In a series of posts starting here, I’ve related my efforts to get Google to index my SmugMug photo gallery. It’s time for another update: basically, Google seems to have just pulled that cord that lets the hot air out of my balloon. I’m going down.
I got hit by ransomware once, maybe 10 years ago. All the files on my hard drive – except for the Windows installation – disappeared, and a popup asked for a VISA number. It’s about the most aggravating thing you can think of.
Continue reading “Windows 10 Ransomware protection”Nicollet Island, in the Mississippi in the middle of Minneapolis, has a lot of history and there’s been a railroad bridge across it since 1867. It’s changed over those 150 years: steel girders in 1893, rebuilt in 1926, modified a couple of times since, but still in use.
There’s a thread right now over at DPReview: “how do you accept that nobody cares about your photography?” I can’t answer that, but it got me thinking about a different one: how will we get anyone to even see our photography, when we’re losing photo bandwidth?
Continue reading “Our Photo Bandwidth Is Declining”