The picture shows Lady all of four months old, resting amongst the weeds and one flower. Watch the Movie

Today is the one-year anniversary of Lady’s death. Lady succumbed to bone cancer on November 29, 2004. She will be missed.

Lady was born a Rottweiler on May 23, 1994, to a very aggressive mother. These aggressive traits were definitely passed down to Lady, but you would only know that if you happened to not be on her A-List. One neighbor, friend, oil man, and a mailman knew Lady all too well.

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Whilst last discussing the greatness of Bonjour, I might as well discuss the basics of security for your wireless network.

In my case, I am using an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station. It’s the easiest thing I’ve ever used, even easier than my Linksys router– and that was very easy to use.

It goes without saying, that if you are transmitting any data over the air, you’d better have that data secured as to not allow anyone who is sniffing the air access to your information. Not only does security come into play, but it might be as simple as you not wanting anyone to steal your bandwidth, to say, gain free interent access off of your ISP account.

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If you’re like me, you want to take advantage of all the latest and greatest technology. But if you’re like me, you don’t want to spend hours learning technical jargon, theory, and principles of design. In short, you don’t necessarily need or want to know how something works, just that it will work when you want it to.

Oh, Bonjour. How I Love Thee

After having the great fortune of becoming a Mac user this year, I have delved into areas of computing that were uncharted in my past life, mainly networking. Maybe it’s because I felt networking was too complex, or maybe it was because I only ever had one computer at a time. Whatever the case, networking was something for those geeks to worry about, not me.

All that changed when I got my first Mac.

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