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For the past several years, those who make billions of dollars by exploiting everyone private information have tried to convince everyone that privacy is a thing of the past.

Of course they say that — their entire business model and personal fortunes depend of millions of people being willing to allow their personal data to be exploited.

In fact, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly made statements expressing utter disdain for anyone who tries to protect their privacy.

Again, he has a very, very [more...]

For the past many years, I used Google’s Webmaster Tools to help me optimize my various Web sites for Google’s search engine, and help me administer Google’s spidering of my sites.

In that same time frame, I’ve also sent automated nightly sitemaps of my sites to Google, to ensure that it would be aware of each day’s updates.

Over the years, I’ve also used four different Google GMail accounts as anonymous proxies, to protect my online privacy when corresponding with possibly dubious strangers — being careful not to [more...]

Everyone knows that regular exercise is good for you.

But how many of us take the time to exercise our brains?

Regular readers know that I suffered a stroke almost five years ago.

But you may not know that, ever since then, I have intentionally done several things to challenge my brain and keep it sharp.

When I first got out of the hospital, my [more...]

We’ve all been to school.

So we all have a pretty good idea of what to do to be a good student.

Take really good notes during class lectures.

If you’re taking several classes, study each topic separately.

And make sure that you [more...]

Over the years, I’ve used several methods to do my yearly income taxes.

When I was young, my tax returns were so simple that I could easily do them on paper.

But, by the time I had a home computer, I was happy to be able to pay $30 or $40 each year for TurboTax software, to help me do my increasingly complicated Federal income taxes. And I think I had to pay an additional fee to electronically file (e-file) my completed tax return.

Then, nearly six years ago, [more...]

The 2012 Super Bowl will take place one week from tomorrow night.

Every year, millions of people watch it.

But I’m not one of those people.

I never watch the Super Bowl.

In fact, I never [more...]

Over the years, I’ve probably received tens of thousands of emailed spam messages — for awhile, I was getting more than 300 every day.

And thousands of pieces of snail-mailed spam, in the form of unwanted advertisements.

Along with hundreds of unwanted telephone sales calls.

But, over the years, I learned some tricks to reduce those unwanted contacts.

So, nowadays, I receive less than [more...]

Ever since shortly after the Wordwide Web was invented, Windows users have had to deal with countless vulnerabilities in their operating systems’ swiss cheese-like security.

In fact, my disgust at that endless stream of Windows security vulnerabilities was one of the main reasons why I finally switched to Linux and stopped using Windows on my home computers almost 6 years ago.

I’m fortunate. Many millions of people around the world [more...]