Faced with the need to replace a broken Laptop I use privately for my private Internet as well as an occasional letter, I looked into the new Netbooks. Aside the fact that they often support Linux, their size is intriguingly small for taking it along on the road, their price is a lot lower and [...]
Lately I had quite some discussions about IT security. Is it the right thing to cut yourself off the hostile Internet? Corporate data security, data integrity? As I have mentioned in these posts before, there is a valid risk of corporate spying, data theft, etc. But… Trying to shut yourself out of the Internet is [...]
It is Easter Sunday. In the wake of my father’s death (the reason there was no Food For Thought last week) I think about god. Yulia does an Easter Lent. So I thought about the Easter Lent in Germany and learned only today about “Seven Weeks Without”, an Easter Lent initiative in the German churches. [...]