A friend asked me recently about how to create a map with points on it using little more than the data in a spreadsheet. This wasn’t the first time I’d considered this problem, but I’ve never found a tool to make it simple to have a map that auto-updates when its source spreadsheet changes. Until now. After asking some friends on the internet, I was informed that National Map, a website from Australia which is built using Terria, should do the job nicely.

Recently, LastPass reported that an attacker was “able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage”. For LastPass users, this means that an attacker could have a copy of “unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.” Because sensitive data is encrypted, this attacker may not be able to access it, at least not immediately, but given they have all the time in the world to try, it’s possible they’ll eventually crack the encryption and gain access to the passwords contained within.

This is just a short note to say that Facebook has deactivated both my Facebook and Messenger accounts, and I can’t seem to get back into them and won’t be creating a new one (see my post about leaving Facebook). If you want to stay in contact with me, please chase me down on another platform. I’ve got a bunch of contact methods listed in the header of this website, but I’ll list them here too: