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I want to set up my own VPN. As I’ve been on the road a lot I don’t like the fact that web traffic on hotel wifi networks can be viewed by anyone. One can also pay to use a VPN service, but since I already have a high-speed Internet connection at my home and…

I’ve been eyeing getting a new compact camera since I have a cheapo phone (nice because I don’t care if it gets damaged or lost – let’s face it, a phone is a device that almost by definition gets a lot of wear and tear) and sometimes when I’m traveling I would like to be…

One part of the Snowden revelations has been totally ignored. Think about this for a minute: What if Edward Snowden had not performed such a remarkable, deeply heroic act? Let’s just conjecture for a minute about the alternate reality in which he had not made the revelations he has made. Here is this guy living…

I’m fairly technologically literate and so when it comes to something involved, like setting up some complex thing, I can usually piece my way through the process, and have enough troubleshooting skills such that, if something unexpected happens, I can usually diagnose and deal with it. But I’m also very aware that this is not…

2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners http://www.pulitzer.org/node/8501 2014 Pulitzer Prize Winners – Public Service For a distinguished example of meritorious public service by a newspaper or news site through the use of its journalistic resources, including the use of stories, editorials, cartoons, photographs, graphics, videos, databases, multimedia or interactive presentations or other visual material, a gold medal.…

The US government has admitted to creating a fake company in order to stir political unrest in Cuba. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Much of our society is fake. AT&T and probably other major telecom companies are NSA or CIA fronts. I’m sure a lot of other tech companies are. What if…

Last week it was in the news that some people have set up a petition for people to pledge not to donate to Wikipedia because: Wikipedia is widely used and trusted. Unfortunately, much of the information related to holistic approaches to healing is biased, misleading, out-of-date, or just plain wrong. For five years, repeated efforts…

I’m delighted to report that I finally have made the switch to ownCloud today, something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Setting it up on my Debian box (running version 7.4 “Wheezy”) was as easy as following the simple instructions from this useful tutorial at debiantutorials.com: How to install ownCloud on wheezy I…

Today President Obama said that Russia is acting “not out of strength, but out of weakness”. Its interesting that he said that because, witnessing the way Russia has acted over the Crimea and Ukraine, and all the bravado it has displayed, it really does look like a pathetic display not of power but of weakness.…

One day was walking along this street – this particular stretch is harrowing to walk along, the squalor is so extreme – and I saw these people selling openly on the street items stolen from vehicles. Today I spoke with a neighbor who lives down the street from me. A really nice old man who…