Retroshare is awesome. It’s secure. It’s simple (once you get rolling) and it’s highly useful. I found getting the initial few friends in was a ‘little’ tricky without a familiarization tour so here is a video I made to help folks out. I sent it to my mom so we’ll know how effective it is shortly, we hope…
Getting Started with Thunderbird: Now Released to the Public!
This secret gem was hidden for a long time, but now, in it’s ‘slightly’ outdated form, please welcome: >>>Getting_Started_With_Thunderbird_3.1_rev1.1 <<< Just to whet your whistle, here is the table of contents: Introduction to Getting Started with Thunderbird 3.1……………………………………………. 1 Getting Started With Thunderbird 3.1…………………………………………………………………. 2 Introducing Mary, an Email User Under Siege………………………………………………………. 2 Why does Mary want to use Thunderbird…………………………………………………………………………2…
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…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 6 in a Series: Dealing With Pressure to Buy Gifts
If you haven’t been following the series, it started a while back now and the goal here is to shoot some ‘sacred cows’ and see if the foundation we are building on is solid, or one of ‘shaky foundations’. Here are some quick links to the series: Part 1: Roots Part 2: Tree vs Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4:…
Goodbye 2014! Hello 2015!
Well, as the Lord God explicitly laid out for me, 2013 was a ‘year of pain’, 2014 would be a ‘year of recovery’ and 2015 is expected to be a ‘year of gain’. The first two have played out exactly perfectly to a tee. 2015 is a mysterious mystery which lies before me and I’m like a man about to…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 5 in a Series: Practical Alternatives to Christmas traditions
If you haven’t been following this series, here is a quick link list to the previous articles so you can catch up: Part 1: The roots Part 2: Christmas tree versus Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4: To Pull your kid from school or not And that brings us to Part 5. We’ve established that there are good grounds to…
Target Canada (Target Brands Inc) is Totally off the Mark
Wow. It’s pretty rare that something happens in the corporate world that is so pathetic that it blows my mind, however, Target Canada (Target Brands Inc) has done it. My friend Paul told me that he was unable to view the products that Target sells on their website. I refused to believe him and didn’t even bother checking. Finally, he…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 4 in a Series: To Pull Your Child from School or Not
Well, Christmas 2015 is now behind us. Before it gets too far behind us, let’s keep this series going so that we are better prepared next year instead of the annual tradition of scrambling trying to figure out what position to take at the end of November or early December. Here is a quick link list to the previous parts…
Apple: Shiny on the Outside, Rotten in the Centre
It’s not like you don’t know this yet, but some some days I get so saddened watching people buy into a bad deal that I feel inspired to write about it. I will likely be reprimanded by my wise friends for wasting my time, but I still like to think that some people just act out of ignorance and if…
My Divorce Phone Call with FIDO (Freaking Incompetent Deception Organization)
Fido is not only incompetent, but they are violators of Canada’s Competition Act. Here is the recording of the filing of my divorce with Fido. Good thing they have the ‘this call may be recorded for coaching and development purposes’ message, eh? >>>Click here for recording of call with Fido<<< Here are the bullet points of the most horrendous display…