Faith and Religion, Life Skills, Technology

Healthy Biblical Position on Privacy and Security

Second revision: March 17, 2016 The other day I indicated to a Bible-believer friend that I would prefer to only communicate with this person (and everyone else) by means of Telegram or secured email, rather than SMS messaging or totally unsecured email.  To my surprise, this person replied back that they were ‘unsure of their biblical position on privacy’. Being…

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Life Skills

Life Hack: Using Clips to Improve Your Life

I don’t usually find a lot of videos that have a wide appeal, but this bad-boy is really good.  Except for his use of unsafe technology (apple) in his demo and their nasty proprietary adaptors, this is a very inspiring and useful video. USEFUL VIDEO TO USE CLIPS EVERY DAY I had some challenges replicating his ear-bud trick because my…

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Faith and Religion, Life Skills

Friends, Family and the Flesh

My dear spouse, why do I find it hard to receive biblical perspectives and teachings from you? Why do my family and friends always discourage me from my heart’s desires? Why are my family and friends not as excited about my prospective mate? Do some of these questions hit home?  For Bible believers, they are tied together quite intimately. Last…

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

The Race to Convergence: Or is it a Marathon?

This article started out kind of exciting.  It explained how Ubuntu was about to show, on a large commercial scale the unveiling of convergence of multiple devices.  For those who don’t know what convergence is, it’s the ability for multiple devices to converge into one user experience – without the need for multiple processors and hard drives.  For a company…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Technology

Eye Spy with Alphabet Google’s Little Eye Something that is Creepy

Some people think google and their new secret daddy ‘Alphabet‘ are ok.  Perhaps this article will convince you otherwise? In the past, google would very slowly ‘creep’ you from behind.  They’d take a little ‘peek’ over your shoulder at your personal information and then kind of ‘accidentally’ share that information with advertisers.  No biggy.  People get their ‘free’ services and…

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Freedom and Privacy, Life Skills, Parenting, Technology

Question the Magic (QTM): Hello Barbie

Thanks to my usual homeboys for forwarding this one.  It’s simply…. MAGIC! HELLO BARBIE which costs a mere… oh…. HUNDRED BUCKS, will also, for that small fee, spy on your children (and you as a bonus) and report its findings to an unidentified source for not-fully-disclosed purposes. The Magic Your kid speaks to Barbie and Barbie comes back with one…

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