Scott Sosna – Page 24

It’s Elementary Privacy, Watson!

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-26technology

In today's (mostly) digital world, maintaining data privacy and data security should be an ongoing discussion in all businesses, especially those developing applications, both internal business shops and software shops…

The Asian Gardens of Portland

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-23Oregon, travel, United States

In our first visit to Portland, Oregon, my wife and I visited the Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park and the Lan Su Chinese Garden in the Old Town Chinatown…

Random Learnings #5

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-22learnings, United Kingdom

Most City offices are in buildings tightly packed on awkwardly shaped sites and even modern builds make use of mirrors to increase the daylight on lower floors. Holden, C.H. and…

Las Vegas A’s?

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-22baseball, sports

My mother and her boyfriend moved my siblings and me from Brooklyn, NY to Green Island, IA in 1972, Iowa being my home from second grade through college graduation. When…

Amsterdam By Ferry

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-21Europe, Netherlands, travel

After I spoke at a tech conference in London, my wife and I took Eurostar to Amsterdam for vacation: Keukenhof, the Vermeer exhibit at the Rijksmuseum, an open-boat canal tour,…

Non-Traditional Project Planning

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-21technology

Most methodology discussions today start and end with how Agile is superior to Waterfall in software engineering; in reality, many other methodologies exist, each with its own pros and cons.…

Random Learnings #4

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-18learnings

I first saw a reference to Sütterlinschrift while reading Fatherhood: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger. The author was researching his grandfather's military service in…

Pre-Internet Foreign Travel

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-17travel

In the mid-1990s, I went on a personal Austrian-Hungarian Empire Tour: fly into Munich, pick up a rental car, and drive south towards Austria. In those embryonic days of the…

Meandering Thoughts #4

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-17meandering thoughts

I recently heard this announcement at the airport: Ms. Whomever, please return to security to pick up your left-behind item. Might it have been a right-behind item?

Games vs. Losses Behind

By Scott Sosna 2023-06-14baseball, sports

Most US-based sports show their standings as Games Behind (GB) which purports to show how far behind the leader your favorite team. The formula to calculate is: ((leading-team-win-count - your-team-win-count)…