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Paperless: how I got rid of so much paper mess
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the piles of paper cluttering your home? It’s no fun task to keep up with the steady inflow of paper from employers, utility companies, insurers, and so on – it never ends! Here’s how I put a stop to the paper flood. I solved the paper mess and went paperless instead. Continue reading
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Who reads the license, anyway?
Terms of Service; Didn’t Read is a site that gives you a very compact summary of the terms of your favorite websites and services. There are some surprises in there but Google isn’t one of them – we already know … Continue reading
Independence, freedom, and privacy
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 … Continue reading
Can you afford to rely on free services?
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, you are trading convenience for risk. How much risk are you willing to accept? Continue reading