Personal Blog – Tom Anthony

How a Random Earbud Moment Changed How I Make Music

Posted on October 8, 2026October 8, 2026 by Tom Anthony

I don’t have any personal connection to Kelly Boesch—I just love the music she makes, and I'm deeply grateful she inspired me to discover a whole new way to collaborate with AI. Let me explain. I work full-time from a little cubicle at the U.S. Coast Guard Community Services Command...

Memory

Posted on March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 by Tom Anthony

Last year I began writing about my early childhood after my daughter gave me “Dad, I Want to Hear Your Story” by Jeffrey Mason. The book is presented as a series of fill-in-the-blank questions like “In what city were you born?” and “Were you born in a hospital?”. After starting...

Wi-Fi availability spreads, but just how safe is it?

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Tom Anthony

While I am in job hunting mode, I find myself taking breaks from reading through the many verbose job postings on Indeed, Zip Recruiter, Monster, etc. to do a little file housekeeping. I found this OP-ED piece I wrote for the weekly newspaper, Inside Business*. Although it was written some...

Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.

Posted on March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 by Tom Anthony

After planning a few posts ahead, I stopped cold when I learned about Microsoft Mesh. You know that scene in the Original Star Wars movie where Luke Skywalker is cleaning R2-D2 and accidentally starts the hologram of Princess Leia saying “Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.”? That is...

Critical Security Answers

Posted on February 9, 2021February 27, 2021 by Tom Anthony

I have a bit of an update for you to my previous post, Critical Security Issues Found. After changing many of the compromised and reused passwords I checked a different source, Firefox Monitor (https://monitor.firefox.com/breaches). It revealed a new breach at Pluto TV. I do not even watch Pluto TV...

Critical Security Issues Found

Posted on February 1, 2021March 5, 2021 by Tom Anthony

What!!?? I did a routine check on my personal Google account and found a somewhat alarming warning. The alert said, “Critical security issues found”. Underneath that text was a link marked “Take Action”. Clicking that button brought me to the Password Checkup section of my Google...

Email marketing

Posted on October 12, 2020March 5, 2021 by Tom Anthony

How frustrating is it to discover your email marketing database is not as clean and tidy as you thought? I manage Marketing for a Datacom Distribution business in the Middle Atlantic region. In trying to improve personalization of the email marketing campaigns sent out over time, I found room for...

On Brand

Posted on February 21, 2020February 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

Today the focus is on Brand and the work it takes to keep up with it. While there are a lot of definitions of the word “brand” I usually think of it as what your stakeholders /customers / prospects perceive you to be. That could be anything from a great employer to some unknown warehouse...

Wow – I thought I knew better.

Posted on January 29, 2020January 26, 2021 by Tom Anthony

So, I went on LinkedIn today and decided to check my messages. My birthday is in December, and here it is the end of January. I have unanswered birthday wishes. I have been on LinkedIn for years and have 3,729 Connections as of this afternoon… so I figured there would be a few… but there...