Freedom and Privacy, Technology

Question the Magic (QTM): Google Tone

If you haven’t been following the ‘question the magic’ series that I’ve recently started, welcome!  You can see our inaugural post here about a really ‘fun’ watch sponsored by our friends over at the wonderful world of Disney. Today a new ‘magic’ technology was presented to me, being researched by the small and non-invasive company called Google.  I’m sure Google…

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

Facebook, Apple and Big Brother Peep in your Bedroom at Night

“Facebook, Apple and Big Brother Peep in your Bedroom at Night” Does that title sound creepy?  Good.  It should. And now, it’s real.  I mean literally real.  Not a movie, but real. The kind of real like when you have a severe gas pain that renders you immobile.  That kind of real. The ever-spying, ever-invasive Facebook with their nasty little…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills

Where Have All the Heroes Gone?

A friend forwarded me this most interesting article on the clearly increasing participation in street protests in the UK and around the world.  Old ‘Anonymous’ is rising up and increasing it would appear. It reminded me of ‘occupy Vancouver’ way back in 2011. And it reminded me of other things from my youth that I joined in to protest. Most…

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Life Skills, Tutorial, Ubuntu

When does Libre Office Calc decide to overflow text into adjacent cells, or cut them at the boundary?

You are trying to do a spreadsheet and keep it tighter but the vertical  column boundary cuts the text off.  And you want to stop it.  It’s easy.  Check it out.. 1. Annoying red arrow cut-offs! 2. Highlight cell or row and then right click on it, and ‘format cells’ 3. Click that check box ‘wrap text automatically’ 4. Yay!…

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Freedom and Privacy, Technology, Ubuntu

Google: The Supreme Alphabet Agency

You may have not read my original post about Google’s somewhat silent and out-of-the-blue creation of their new ‘supreme corporation’ ‘Alphabet, but if not, do catch up by reading it here. I knew there was ‘something’ about their name.  Something strategic.  Something creepy.  Something tongue and cheek.  But it wasn’t until I had a 6am coffee with Joe Adam on…

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