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Nice WordPress Plugin for Backups
I saw this post about backing up your WordPress blog to Dropbox earlier this month, but when it came time to update this site to the latest WP release, that was the first time I decided to take it for a ride. Sure enough, I installed the wpTimeMachine plugin, and within a few minutes, I…

Why Section 230 Actually Matters For the Internet as we Know It
I found this article from The Hill to be rather enlightening on the subject of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Because it shows that most of the critics of it, on both sides of the political spectrum, simply don’t understand what it is. Most of them seem to think it either: Frees big…
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Quick Thought – Masks and Facial Recognition
It may not sound like a serous question, but it is. Whatever side you are on in terms of whether people should wear masks in public I can’t help but notice that there seems to be some inconsistency when it comes to facial recognition. I mean, if I were an all-powerful government official interested in…
Should I Be Worried About Tweetdeck?
The other day when I saw all the hub-bub about Twitter basically telling developers to not bother developing clients, I was really struck by their claim that 90% of Twitter users use official Twitter apps. Maybe my world is just a small part of the twitterverse overall, but I don’t know many people who don’t…