Smart Home – Introduction

I loved Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s the first sci-fi 🛸 that I can remember growing up. Although I’m not a hardcore trekkie/trekker (I don’t even know the difference), I have enjoyed every movie and TV series since TNG 📺. One of the things I like most about Star Trek is the creative, forward-thinking […]
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It’s all about the Benjamins aggregating

Continuing on with our personal finance series (NFC, Transaction Alerts), in this post we’ll take a look at my current financial data aggregating service, Mint. A financial what now??? I’m just using fancy lingo for a website that brings all your financial accounts together for easy viewing and tracking.
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It’s all about the Benjamins tapping

In my introductory, inaugural post, I explained that one of the inspirations for this blog was hearing about the credit card data breach at Wawa in December 2019. I realized that I had a small bit of knowledge that could help others, and I wanted to share it with anyone who might be interested. The […]
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Let Me Introduce Myself

“My name is Greg.” Hello. My name is Greg. I am a serial tech enthusiast and lifelong learner. Although my formal tertiary education is in the field of IT, I am in no way an expert in that field. Instead, my vocation has been in risk management and insurance for all 17 years of my […]
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It’s all about the Benjamins crediting

For our fourth and final planned post in the financial series (NFC, Transaction Alerts, Mint), we’ll take a look at Credit Karma.
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It’s all about the Benjamins alerting

Let’s keep going with the personal finance tips. Our last topic was utilizing tap-to-pay to protect your physical credit card. Now we’re going to take a look at an easy way to stay on top of your financial transactions and catch fraudulent charges as soon as possible. Of course, standard disclaimer applies: I am by […]
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Feedly your mind with knowledge

No, that’s not a typo in the title. It’s meant to be a pun. The first actual content post of this blog is apropos to how you might follow along with some good blogs (might I suggest this one!). Introducing the web and mobile app Feedly.
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