As much as I try to get away from Google, I still got it bad for that company. And with Google Christmas on Wednesday, May 10 (Google I/O), I'm as excited as ever.

You would think making a simple list of your favorite Disney animated movies wouldn't be so hard. WRONG!!! Turned into a life crisis. I initially wanted a list of five movies. That turned into eleven. That eleven ballooned into seventeen. After I got to seventeen Disney movies, it seemed silly not to have twenty. So here goes a list of my favorite #disneyanimatedmovies . Funny how there isn't one Mickey Mouse or Tigger movie in the bunch.

• Aladdin
• The Jungle Book
• An Extremely Goofy Movie
• The Lion King
• The Incredibles
• Monster's Inc.
• Soul
• Zootopia
• Cars
• Big Hero 6
• Encanto
• Up
• Coco
• Finding Nemo
• Lilo & Stitch
• The Princes and the Frog
• Frozen
• Inside Out
• Hercules
• Wreck-It-Ralph

Reference:

List of Disney Theatrical Animated Feature Films [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_feature_films

My kids think I have a super power. They think the minute the Internet speed goes below Xbox or Netflix speeds that the hair on my arms stands up and I get a tingle in my spine.

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I have to honestly say I'm down. It is embarrassing to admit that at my age the passing of someone I don't know and have never met would affect me so much. And I'm really trying to crystallize what has thrown me for such a loop. Initially I thought it was his daughter passing with him. The horror and helpless feelings he must have had gone though. Being a parent that really to be honest scared me.

But again the idea of Kobe dying feels like it threw me hard when I think about it more. To say Mr. Bryant was a work in progress is an understatement. By no means do I think he was perfect. But seeing his journey over this adult life was an experience. How a young man with more world experience than most American's can dream of went from being so tunnel visioned and to a degree conservative to a open minded and wise father of four who was probably more hungry for success at age 41 than he was at age 21. Again he had more than a few bumps in his maturation process. But he seemed always able to learn and auto-correct.

Kobe had attributes I so want to emulate in my life. Tenacity, focus, fearlessness to name a few. He was seemingly incapable of being defeated mentally. Feels like a shame that we won't be able to see how much further Kobe could go in life.

Mom: Should we by some medical masks?

Me: Blah blah statistics about how more people are surviving than dying and population densities compared to proportion of people actually getting sick.

Mom: Why the hell I even as you!?!

If you want the Outbreak answer why you gonna ask the person that isn't gonna give you the Outbreak answer? She knows who I am.

Saw what you want but I am never using 4GB of RAM if I can ever help it again. I've been using a matching with 16 GB of RAM for work and let me tell you something... It's awesome. I mean it is sad that a web browser needs so much memory in order to run “comfortably”. But that's the reality we live in today. And yeah I'm probably crazy for wanting to leave so many browsers and tabs open at once. But it feels so good to have that option.

Anthony Cousins post via @kdbowe on Instagram sums it all up for me beautifully.

This has to be the brightest rainbow I've ever seen. Felt like it was landing right on somebody's house.

Welcome again to another Cyber Security Awareness Month tech tip. All October long digital citizens all over the Internet will share tips and best practices they use to help protect their digital lives. For most people online cyber security is not a top priority. Not always because they don't care. Mostly it is because they have never thought about the implications of their actions online. Actions like pressing “Reply All” to a mass email or checking in at a location on a social network can leave data about ourselves open for people we don't intend to see and use against us. That is why great thought and care must be used when doing anything online.

Be Careful With Your Location

Never before in history have human beings been able to record their lives in such detail as they do now. With the modern smartphone anyone can catch the most mundane to life defining events in high definition. Be it with a simple image, video, algorithmically generated filter, or augmented reality moments can never be forgotten. With the help of a GPS radio though locations can be remembered forever as well. Don't get me wrong. Location data on photos can be a very useful feature. But in the wrong hands and with enough data someone can map out your entire routine. Enough photos during the day when you should be working and your job location can be figured out. Same at night and now your home address is exposed. So location should be a very private and secure part of your digital identity.

Strip Location From Public Posts

When sharing details about your life publicly you should try to remove location data from your photos and video. Especially if your are sharing around areas you are at everyday (i.e. home, work, regular restaurants, post office, etc.). Directions are different for each platform you use so you should become familiar with them all.

1. When emailing photos to people you are not completely familiar with use an app or the operating system your are using to strip location data from the images.
2. When sharing photos though a social network (i.e. Facebook, Twitter) or a photo storage service (Google Photos, Flickr) make sure photos shared though the service removes or blocks location data.
3. If possible use photo editing tools to create a soft focus effect that will obscure landmarks and street signs in your photos.

Location information in the wrong hands can compromise the digital and real world safety of not just your but your friends and family. So it is important to take the proper precautions when sharing information online. Remember that all October long is Cyber Security Awareness Month #cybersecuritymonth. So please share any and all tips you either see or can think of that will help other digital citizens appreciate how important protecting their data and identities online is.

References

Cyber Security Awareness Month Tip #1

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