This day started off early – a customer call at 6, via Teams in my hotel room, because there was no way I’d have time the rest of the day. The call went well, and I got dressed and headed out for breakfast. I ended up meeting with quite a few customers during the day, … Continue reading “RSAC 2026 – Day 3”
Microsoft is expected to announce their new E9 licensing model. Hot on the tail of E7, E9 promises more capabilities and protections for AI management, as well as protection and enhancements for ordinary automation. Sources close to Microsoft have indicated the following key capabilities. Licensing is expected to be per-user per-decade, with triennial opportunities to … Continue reading “Microsoft Announces E9 Licensing Model”
A new vector for AI attack is ermging: “drowning”. Essentially, in a world of data lakes and other large repositories of data, an AI tool may find itself overwhelmed with the volume of data it tries to utilize in order to generate a response. While there are safeguards to force an AI tool to stop … Continue reading “AI “Drowning””
You know what they say about the best laid plans…such were mine today. After meeting my team up for breakfast, my plan was to attend a couple of sessions but instead we divided up some customer meetings: some in the morning, some in the afternoon. I won’t say whom, but I will say what was … Continue reading “RSAC 2026 – Day 2”
It’s my first RSAC ! I’m here in beautiful San Francisco to meet, greet, and take a seat. Impressions It was a quiet start; people were still completing registration and picking up badges this evening. Sessions in the morning were lightly attended, with more packed rooms later in the day. It’s all AI, AI, AI, … Continue reading “RSAC 2026 – Day 1”
At long last, I have a working prototype in the field*. After two years of off-on progress, I have a Raspberry Pi ZeroW gathering temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure data to send to a cloud app, so I can view it in a dashboard. And, yes, I realize it’s next to a building duct, so … Continue reading “The Prototype”
There is an entire other post in my drafts folder, where I meant to lay out all things that I can do towards my Raspberry Pi weather station, to shore up my personal morale against what I can’t do. However, that post will stay in drafts or get deleted, because one of my can’ts became … Continue reading “Visualization with Azure IOT Central”
Last summer, along with some more traditional kitchen renovations, I added Apple’s HomeKit capabilities to my 500sf NYC apartment. Not a lot, just enough to play with, and to make some minor improvements in my 21st-century lifestyle. I went with HomeKit because, for now at least, I feel Apple has the best privacy story, and … Continue reading “Home Life with Siri”
It’s tempting to call this an autopsy, but I wasn’t seeking information. A few months ago my Xbox One flat-out stopped working, no power . . .sort of. It had served about five years, so it had a good run. The only real setback was that I’d been planning to buy an Xbox One Series … Continue reading “Xbox One Takeapart”
Amongst my various Pi projects, I’d taken the basics of battery power, and a single sensor, and had the idea to put them in the air. Some of my early inspirations in Pi work were high altitude balloon flights, but since ballooning itself is going to be a learning path, I decided to start with … Continue reading “Let’s Go Fly A Kite”