Mealtime Technology

In this issue:

• Don’t Let a Hacker Eat Your Lunch
• Lunchtime Tech on the Go
• Take a Lunch Break
• The Risks of “Expired” Technology

Breakfast cereal TV commercials in the 60s and 70s ended with visuals of an appetizing meal with the voice-over saying “part of a complete breakfast” that included: a bowl of sugary cereal, juice, milk, toast and butter, and fruit (advertisers were legally obligated to include that last one). Looking back, it is hard to believe that anyone could really include Lucky Charms as essential to a complete breakfast.

Mealtime Technology

In this issue:

• Most Important Meal of the Day (Backup)
• Introducing… Laurie
• Essentials of Nutrition (Office 365)
• The Missing Ingredient (secure passwords)

The Jetsons was an animated, futuristic situation comedy produced by Hanna-Barbera which premiered in September 1962 on ABC and ran for one year. The Jetsons lived in Orbit City, high above the ground in Sky Pad apartments. Besides the family, Rosie the Robot and Astro the dog may be the most well remembered characters.

...to ask the Lord’s blessing.  Thanksgiving is a wonderful, Norman Rockwell time of year when spirits run high over pumpkin pie and spiced lattes as we spend time with friends and family.

Thankfully, this collaborative spirit tends to spill over into our professional lives as well.

Classic jazz fans might slide an It’s Monk’s Time CD in the changer during Thanksgiving.  It includes a 50-year-old tune called “Stuffy Turkey.”  Reviewers considered this one of Monk’s lesser works, deriding it as “quirky” and “repetitive.

“I always feel like somebody's watching me” is one of the haunting lines from the Motown hit and Halloween favorite “Somebody’s Watching Me” by Rockwell. This 1984 release by Rockwell had a disturbing music video released to promote it. Listen to the song closely to hear Michael Jackson on background vocals.

Many businesses leverage temporary or seasonal staff.  The benefits are obvious—expertise and additional resources/capacity when you need it. With the advances in technology, utilizing these types of personnel is even easier.  However, what may not be so obvious are the network security risks; in particular, the increased potential for compromised sensitive data or loss of control of the data.

The title of the board game, Sorry!, comes from the many ways in which a player can thwart the progress of another, while apologetically saying, "Sorry!" That may be all fun and games, but when it comes to businesses who don’t have an IT management and support plan in place, there’s only so much you can do to reactively fix a disaster.

Have you ever seen anyone play the game of Jenga?  It starts with a tower of wooden bricks, sometimes 16 layers high.  Each player takes a turn at removing a brick and then places it back on the top of the pile. The tower starts off very stable but ends up very wobbly and eventually collapses in the end.