Happy Chinese New Year! #yearofthehorse #rabbit #2014

Free picture from elsoar.com. Happy Chinese New Year to one and all! May the Year of the Horse bring you luck, fortune, prosperity, health and long life. I’m reading that it should be a good year for me, and I wish you all the same! Free picture from elsoar.com. Happy Chinese New Year to one […]

January Wrap-Up

Picture from calendarpedia.co.uk. I’m going to write January’s wrap-up a day early because I’ll be out tomorrow for work during the day, and I don’t know how much time I’ll have. As it is I have just over an hour left in this day. 😉 I’ve blogged for thirty-one straight days. While I haven’t written […]

#DeepWeb Lesson Number Three: DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo @yegg @duckduckhack #agorism

Once you’re on the Deep Web, participating in the glorious agorist future (or just doing your own thing), it’s important that you do everything you can to avoid leaving tell-tale pieces of information about yourself all over the web. What good is it to obfuscate your connection and traffic if you then tell everyone who […]

#DeepWeb Lesson Number Two: Get Tor #agorism

Screenshot of a section of the torproject.org website. It’s relatively simple to get tor – as you can see from the above screenshot, you can simply visit torproject.org, and download it. It will have a version of tor for your operating system, and it will be a one-click install. Once you have it installed, you […]

Movie Review: Pain & Gain

Director Michael Bay is known for his explosion movies, and most people will know “The Transformers” series as the signature franchise in that ‘genre’. He’s done other movies (Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, etc.) that were equally high on special effects and not always so big on story development. It’s refreshing then to see a Michael Bay […]

Movie Review: Disney Pixar’s “Planes”

When stuck on a plane, you’ll watch things that you’d probably never watch otherwise. “Planes” falls into that category for me. Pixar has/had a reputation for producing really great movies – for instance, “The Incredibles” – but it seems with their acquisition by Disney that the giant mouse has killed their uniqueness. This movie, ostensibly […]

Teaser of Harry Potter World! @stylishchic @wbstudiotour

Today the lovely @stylishchic and I went to Harry Potter World! I’m not easily impressed, but I have to say that this was more than I was expecting. I’ll put up a more complete post sometime in the near future, but for now, here are some teaser pictures! There are quite a few pictures of […]

Book Review: The $100 Startup @chrisguillebeau @tferriss

Picture from chrisguillebeau.com. The first edition of Tim Ferriss’ book “The Four Hour Work Week” (affiliate link), which I loved, faced one common criticism among those who didn’t like it – that it wouldn’t work, and that Tim’s success was a fluke. Tim answered his critics in the second edition of the book, adding case […]

No Wifi? That’s Unpossible! @british_airways @twitter @wireduk

Picture from dallasobserver.com. This will be a short post, because it’s taken me about ten minutes just to download the picture above. I’m in the Dubai airport for my return to the UK, and the Wifi situation at the moment is deplorable. The BA lounge wifi hasn’t been working all day. The Wifi in the […]

Movie Review: The Fifth Estate

I watched this on the plane yesterday, and I’m very glad I didn’t watch it on a bigger screen. I’m also very glad that I didn’t spend any money to see it. I was very tempted to make this a two-word review: “Don’t bother.” Julian Assange himself said the film would fail – he was […]