Here’s the last two years:<\/p>\n
Honeywell just declared a 10% higher dividend at 82 cents a share. HON has done well for us. It’s a very dynamic technology company with a lot going for it, including the upcoming spinoff of Garrett, which will be listed as GTX.<\/p>\n You can read more on Honeywell here<\/strong><\/a> and here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Don’t do stupid<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n + Don’t fall backwards off a treadmill. A friend did, destroying his shoulder, which can’t be repaired. It’s hurt his tennis.<\/p>\n + Don’t walk across the road when the lights change in your favor. Some idiot will run the red light. I watch idiots every night run red lights outside our building. There are no police, no tickets, nothing. Just accidents.<\/p>\n + Please change all your passwords today<\/strong> — those for your email, for your bank and for your credit card accounts.<\/p>\n Don’t forget to change your passwords every six months. Your email address and my email address and their passwords are all available for purchase on the Internet’s so-called “dark web.” That’s the place crooks go to buy email addresses they can use to blackmail you.<\/p>\n I’m the victim of a blackmail attempt. Yesterday I received a long email asking for $3,000 in bitcoins or they’d release an incriminating explicit video of me doing something awful. The threat is disconcerting because they have my email address and an old password.<\/p>\n I did my usual thing. I panicked. I dropped everything and checked around. The consensus is that the blackmail threat is spam. But I’m not certain. And I don’t like being blackmailed. Anyone had this problem?<\/p>\n Here’s a piece on the web\u00a0 that addressed Is the porn blackmail scam real? <\/em><\/strong>Click\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The article contains these words :<\/p>\n We strongly recommend a password manager like Dashlane or 1Password , which will automatically check your passwords to see if they have been revealed in a breach and help you create unique, secure ones for every site.<\/p>\n Here’s another later one. Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n China is catching up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Five years ago China had only two of the world\u2019s largest publicly traded tech companies, while the U.S. had nine. Today, China has nine of the top 20 \u2014 Alibaba, Tencent, Ant Financial, Baidu, Xiaomi, Didi, JD.com, Meituan and Toutiao \u2014 and the U.S. has 11.<\/p>\n Twenty years ago, China had none.<\/p>\n Email is suddenly messing up<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Some of my blog doesn’t get delivered to gmail addresses. An email from my banker took two days to go from mid-town to me on the upper west side — a 30 minute walk.<\/p>\n I am checking reasons. But, so far, I have absolutely no idea what’s going on.<\/p>\n Suffice, follow my motto: CHECK. CHECK. CHECK.<\/p>\n Good news: The phone still works. Even some cellphones.<\/p>\n I get robocalls on my iPhone.<\/strong><\/p>\n My favorite weekly read<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/hon2years.jpg\")
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