You need a VPN
Most of the media attention to congress right now is focused on health care, and rightly so. But the current congress is pushing through a lot of other stuff too, […]
internet
Thinking about email services
Seeing the changes to OtherInbox Organizer this past weekend got me thinking about email in general. I’ve been using Gmail for more than ten years, and I’ve been using Organizer […]
Organizing Email (and related privacy issues)
I’ve been using OtherInbox Organizer to keep my Gmail inbox clean since 2011. it’s a service that scans your Gmail inbox and moves commercial email into various folders under a […]
Pocket acquired by Mozilla
Well, this is interesting. Mozilla has acquired Pocket. I blogged recently about Instapaper, and their acquisition by Pinterest. Now, their one big competitor has been acquired too. That’s a little […]
Amazon Affiliate Links
Amazon has recently made some changes to their affiliate program that are going to have a negative impact on some bloggers. Here are a couple of articles about the change, […]
Harvesting Government History
Here’s an interesting article about a group of librarians archiving pages from federal websites, prior to the start of the new administration: The ritual has taken on greater urgency this […]
Cable TV shenanigans
About a month ago, I blogged about how my cable TV provider was discontinuing my old plan and moving me to a new one. That’s happened, so I now have […]
Instapaper Premium is now free
It was announced yesterday that Instapaper Premium is now free. I’d been paying the old rate of $12/year for it, so it’s no big deal for me. I’m not sure […]
Oh, Yahoo
After the recent disclosure by Yahoo that hackers stole a bunch of data from them in 2014, I of course changed my Yahoo password. I could see in my 1Password […]
paying my bills. (or not.)
I’ve moved almost entirely to paying my monthly bills online, and receiving the bills online. I’ve been doing it slowly and carefully though. I only just recently gave my electric […]