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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Faith, Life Skills, Parenting

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:…

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Business, Faith, Life Skills

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…

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Business, Life Skills, Technology

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…

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Life Skills, Pipes

The Secrets of Pipe Smoking

It was hard to come up with a title for this.  Here are some ideas I toyed with: Why Smoking a Pipe Makes You Cooler Why Losers Don’t Smoke Pipes If You Want to be 79% More Classy, Smoke a Pipe. Why your Grandpa Smoked a Pipe and Why He was Cooler Than You Why Pipe Smoke Smells Awesome and…

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