Technology

Global Technological and Industrial Revolutions

A fine student I know, Eric Cho, wrote this essay and I thought it was a pretty cool quick read that pretty much covers all areas of advancement that we have faced in recent history and some implications. Enjoy, and thanks, Eric!   There have been several historically significant revolutions throughout the last three centuries and some that are still…

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Life Skills, Technology

The Secret Weapon to Beat the Robots

The robots are coming! The robots are coming!  They’re everywhere.  They’re coming for your job, too.  You can beat them and here is how. I read the title of a blog post this morning called, “How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable at Work” and the title intrigued me greatly. I started thinking about how robots could replace pretty much any job…

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Freedom and Privacy, Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

How to Privatize Your Calendar with Owncloud, Thunderbird, and Lightning

Edit 151224: I had accidentally selected ‘ics’ format instead of caldav.  Sorry about that. Now it works! — Getting your calendar off other  people’s servers should be a priority.  It’s bad enough that you’re being tracked unwillingly but throwing your daily calendar out there to be viewed is borderline twisted. I needed a solution where the sync was happening on…

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Technology, Tutorial, Ubuntu

detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial

I just wanted to log this great website that I found which offers a great copy and paste ddclient setup.  It’s much better than the out-of-the-box setup that comes with the software.  Thanks very much for this tutorial! detailed ubuntu ddclient and namecheap tutorial It was also interesting to learn that Namecheap simply uses a service called ‘freedns’ apparently…. good…

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