Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

PGP (Yeah, You Know Me): and How to Set Up New Key

PGP encryption on your email is not only awesome but it’s now mandatory if you care even the slightest about your personal privacy.  If you don’t care about your personal privacy, I invite you to strip naked and dance in front of your living room window towards the street with your blinds open at night…. unless you look like me…

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Freedom and Privacy, Humour, Technology, Ubuntu

The Ubuntu AudioCast – Where Did It Go???

What a shame. Chucky, Bucky and Philbare seem to have taken an long hiatus from pumping out the latest about Ubuntu. These guys were different because they weren’t just talking tech.  They were talking life. Ubuntu is not just technology.  It relates to a whole bunch more stuff that’s very critical for our future.  Randall Ross did a great short…

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Amateur Radio, Freedom and Privacy

Amateur (Ham) Radio: No, Officer, I won’t Pay That ‘Use of Electronic Device Ticket’ This Time

I’m sick of it. I have gotten 2 violation tickets for allegedly using an electronic device while driving. The first time I was at a red light and I moved my cell phone from my dash (it was sliding around), checked the time on the phone’s clock, and put it on my passenger seat.  The officer behind not only pulls…

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Business, Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Technology

Realtors Who Use Gmail are In Breach of Their Fiduciary Duty to Clients

It’s time to call a spade a spade. The Real Estate Council of BC talks about the responsibility of real estate agents here.  Scanning down the page there is a section dedicated to ‘fiduciary duty’.  This term sound big but it’s pretty simple.  Lawyers have it, too.  They have to look out for the best interests of their clients and…

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