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Unwelcome attention: poisoned links and spam comments

Other sites linking to your website should be good news, as should comments to your blog. Sadly they are often nothing but trouble.

September 27, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Privacy should be determined by the point of delivery

Services should comply with data protection law at the point of delivery, not where they choose.

August 25, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Privacy policies: how they do not protect us

How do Apple, Google, and Spotify say they protect your personal data, and should you trust them?

August 22, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Google OnHub: could this be a WiFi spy? (revised)

Would you invite the world’s largest advertising corporation to take all the information that it wants from inside […]

August 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The making of “From silk to canvas”

When writing for this blog is far tougher than performing a tracheotomy.

August 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Arts in Hard Times

Why Apple should be giving more to charity, and how that should include the arts.

August 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Q&A: Using Google Advanced Search

How can I set up Google Advanced Search to make its use more efficient?

July 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Popular vote or social engineering

Even the least money-motivated of us become tempted to play to the gallery, and their view statistics.

June 5, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Stick a Fork in WebKit, it’s Undone

Just as there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, we should be equally suspicious of free web browsers.

April 13, 2015 Macs, Technology

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