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The Site is Back! Again?

The Site is Back! Again?

This blog has been stale for a few years now. I was planning to erase all the posts and begin fresh, but the posts go back twenty years, back to 2003, so I thought I would leave them as a snapshot of these years. So I will now begin (again) to blog and we’ll see...
The Swamp Strikes Back

The Swamp Strikes Back

Those of us who grew up in the Washington, D.C., area know that government workers are people who have dedicated themselves to public service. Many times, they have to take a salary lower than they would have gotten in the private sector, but they do this out of a...
How I Protect Myself

How I Protect Myself

Security agencies had expected the adoption of encryption technologies to slowly develop. James Clapper, the former head of U.S. National Intelligence, said that with the revelations made by Edward Snowden the use of encryption jumped ahead by seven years. I wonder if...
Redesigned Website

Redesigned Website

Like the shoemaker’s children, my own website often sits languishing, while I work on the web pages for St. Francis Inn, the US Franciscans, and others. Well, no more! I have finally updated my own website, bringing it finally into the modern era with better...
Back to the Crystal Prison

Back to the Crystal Prison

On Oct 9, 2013, I wrote a blog post about how I was breaking out of Apple’s Crystal Prison by moving from an iPhone to an Android smartphone. Instead of upgrading from an iPhone 4 to 5S, I instead bought a Samsung Note 3. Well, after struggling with Android for...