Twins have more fun

Posted on 13. November 2013 by torbengb

I would hope that most of my followers know that I am a twin. If not, well, you do now!

What’s it like? One benefit is that we get to prank people. But to be honest it’s a lot more fun when people make mistakes and wrong assumptions all on their own, without us having plotted and planned any shenanigans.

My brother and I used to have a part of our old website dedicated to some of our best twin stories, but one of our cleanup sprees took those pages offline. That’s going to change now! Continue reading →

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New Post

Posted on 13. November 2013 by torbengb

There’s a form to create a new post but I don’t see on what blog it will go so I’ll just try it out – and then check my own blogs to look for it. Wouldn’t it be fun if this post arrived on Tierney’s blog?! I’m sure that’s not the intention, so it probably doesn’t work that way. But it doesn’t say!

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Independence, freedom, and privacy

Posted on 12. July 2013 by torbengb

In my last post, I voiced the opinion that it can make sense to find software you like and run your own service on a computer you control. The benefit of doing that is independence — not having to rely on others. In light of the current PRISM scandal, it turns out that running your own software has another advantage: freedom in terms of privacy. Continue reading →

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Can you afford to rely on free services?

Posted on 21. March 2013 by torbengb

Along with the outcry after Google’s announcement to kill their popular Reader service, people have started to realize the danger of using online services. Yes, they’re incredibly convenient, and they’re often free, but they do have a cost all the same. That cost is risk: online services are outside your control. It follows that any data you place in these services are also outside your control!

Essentially, we are trading convenience for risk. How much risk are we willing to accept? Have we ever considered how much risk we can afford to accept?

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I <3 Windows XP

Posted on 22. January 2013 by torbengb

After cursing over Window 7 for more than a year, I’ve finally formatted the disk and installed my beloved Windows XP instead. I needed to borrow an external CD drive to do that because the machine didn’t want to boot XP  setup from a USB stick (but Ubuntu can boot from USB… weird). Continue reading →

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