--- title: 'The early 2000s called - they want their blog back' url: 'http://secureaf.com.au/blog/the-early-2000s-called' markdown: 'http://secureaf.com.au/blog/the-early-2000s-called.md' date: '2026-09-17' description: "Change of pace today, maybe even a touch off topic. A blog about blogging on a blog about small business security. Stick with me, there's a point to all of this - I promise. There's an important reason why we blog - and it's all about keeping you more secure. But I digress, right now I'm supposed t…" taxonomy: tag: - discussion --- # The early 2000s called - they want their blog back Change of pace today, maybe even a touch off topic. A blog about blogging on a blog about small business security. Stick with me, there's a point to all of this - I promise. There's an important reason why we blog - and it's all about keeping you more secure. But I digress, right now I'm supposed to be *off* topic. ## A little violin Our blog has a tag line: > We spend our weekends thinking about security and resilience for small and micro business so you don't have to *Fact-check true*, the process starts on the weekend - it actually starts with violin. The keen eyed out there may have noticed that many of the photos of my cafe based "remote offices" look like the same cafe. You may have also noticed a tendency for blog posts to come out on a Saturday. My daughter plays violin in the city almost every weekend. This provides me with hours to make use of - sometimes I spend it on admin - sometimes I have client work that has bled into the weekend - but more often than not, that time is dedicated to this very blog. As a result, yes, lots of posts come out on a Saturday and I'm regularly camped out at the same cafe. It's the cafe with the best coffee within walking distance. That's not to say that posts come together in a caffeine fuelled frenzy on a Saturday morning. Many of these posts - including this one - are pieced together over weeks. Sometimes inspiration strikes due to current news or current events. The majority however are a process of researching, taking notes from client engagements and past experiences. Including this post, my backlog list is currently 10 posts deep with each at various different stages of readiness. It's messy, it's chaotic but it's very human. Now that's a good segue because if you're a business small business operator the obvious question is... ## Why not slop it? It's way faster, it's way easier. I *could* use an AI platform and give it instructions for what I want an article to say, maybe a few structured bullet points so it's not just going rogue on messaging. And I would have the benefit that the blog posts would be aggressively refined for SEO - I'd argue there are real benefits to using AI for the blog writing. So why not do it? I have a few reasons, the first is what I liked to think of as the uncanny valley of writing. I find that AI generated text too often *feels* artificial it has a structure and wordiness that just doesn't feel human and the more I notice it the more I'm less inclined to read something. This late into 2026 it also still makes errors. If I ask an AI tool to write an in-depth article on something I'm an expert in, far too often I can see the errors, either obvious mistakes or just statements made without appropriate context. The problem is when you ask the same AI tool to write an in-depth article on something you're *not* an expert in. The errors are still there but the AI is just so verbose and confident that you can't see them. That's not to say I don't use AI tools. As [discussed previously](https://secureaf.com.au/blog/using-ai-in-your-small-business) they have a place. Spell checking, researching, image generation. These are all tasks they're quite good at. I've even been known to go a [little overboard](https://secureaf.com.au/blog/when-half-the-world-goes-dark) with the images. When it comes to the core writing and the actual advice, AI doesn't get into the drivers seat: - AI hasn't sat with a small business owner while they stress about answering a client's vendor security questionnaire. - AI defaults to what it has been fed: enterprise-level advice and budgets. - At its heart, modern AI is just mathematically guessing the next best word - it doesn't have skin in the game. If I give you a piece of advice, I need to stand by it. In short, what I don't want is someone to jump on our website, access our blog and walk away feeling it's all low effort slop. ## Say what you mean / mean what you say Our blog posts vary. Sometimes it's pure education. Sometimes tips and tricks. Sometimes a thread of thinking. Always expressing an opinion. Having an opinion and standing by it is a critical feature. This business, this blog, it exists because I started my technology career setting up and managing small business IT. Then I went on to spend over 2 decades it all facets of Cyber Security culminating with various CISO roles in businesses that are Australian household names. In those 2 decades, security in big business has become increasingly sophisticated while small business has been consistently left behind. With this context in mind I have a number of beliefs, I have more than my fair share of opinions. I'll say what I mean and mean what I say. For too long security has relied on outrunning the other guy rather than outrunning the bear and it's small business that's struggling to keep up. ## On topic? So at the start I suggested that the blog is about keeping you more secure. Firstly as a platform for education and discovery, this blog is intended as a resource for either a small business owner or IT decision maker to explore security topics but in *their* context - not a big corporate one. From the [pros and cons of passkeys](https://secureaf.com.au/blog/passwordless-paradox), to in depth discussions regarding [internet redundancy](https://secureaf.com.au/blog/cutting-the-invisible-cord-rethinking-starlink-for-business-backup), to discussion of [options to keep old hardware operating securely](https://secureaf.com.au/blog/after-windows-10-give-your-old-hardware-new-life-and-support-with-chrome-os-flex) - and everything in between, this blog aims to act as a resource. Finally it acts as a sounding board for the underlying premise of this business - what if I take knowledge earned protecting Australia largest businesses and consider how to apply it to Australia's smallest. If your small business needs help outrunning the bear (or maybe just the other guy) [contact us](https://secureaf.com.au/contact-us) for help. --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Blog](http://secureaf.com.au/blog.md) - Previous: [Redundancy as Flexibility: Testing Small Business Resilience Off-Grid](http://secureaf.com.au/blog/redundancy-as-flexibility.md) - Next: [The 8GB Trap](http://secureaf.com.au/blog/the-8gb-trap.md)