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Dispatches on AI tools, Python, UK open data, test data management, and the slow drift towards southern Spain. Not polished. Honest.

2023
Excel Filters for the Fail
Data breaches in UK police departments reveal the critical security mistake of relying on Excel filtering instead of proper data protection tools.
Data Protection
A Quick Adventure in NLP using Python NLTK
Practical guide to using Python's NLTK library to identify and protect sensitive personal information in unstructured text.
Python
What Have the Romans Done for Us? Privacy Benefits
Using Monty Python wit to explain eight organizational advantages of privacy compliance and regulations.
Privacy
2022
'Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Voltage Poem
A creative reimagining of the classic Christmas poem as a cybersecurity narrative featuring Format-Preserving Encryption as the hero.
Security
What Happens in 10 Months in Voltage
Interview exploring a sales engineer's accomplishments in data discovery, customer successes across Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, and the challenge of unstructured file discovery.
Data Privacy
Digital Data Hoarding
Organizations accumulate data like personal hoarders, creating liability instead of value. Exploring why digital minimalism matters for efficiency and compliance.
Data Management
2021
It's Ten PM, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
Adapting the classic PSA to a modern question: Do you know where your data is? Why a data-centric approach matters for organizations facing privacy regulation and cloud adoption.
Data Security