TechnoDenbow

Work In Progress

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I’ve been negligent lately in my research for the story I want to
create. I haven’t, however, been completely disengaged according to all
the notes and ideas jotted down. I don’t want to half-ass this but other
responsibilities are taking over too. In the mean time, here is a sneak
peek:  

Deep/Dark Web Exploration

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The Dark Web sounds nefarious and scary but with the right tools, and a balls of brass, I can access and browse safely.

The
deep/dark web refers to web sites that hide their web address and is
only accessible by using encrypted tools like the TOR browser, the Tails
operating system designed to boot from a USB flash drive, all from an
ideally new, clean, low-cost computer. And forget about using social
media sites such as Facebook or even Google. Use a search engine that
won’t track you such as DuckDuckGo.

I’ve been exploring the
deepest, darkest parts of the web for awhile now and it is fascinating
in how it reminds me of the early, pioneer days of web 1.0.

This
feels very much like exploring the frontier here because the
possibilities and the risks are both real and exciting. More later.

Opening Windows

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For the past few years I have rejected the Microsoft Windows operating system in favor of Linux Ubuntu.

Open source software, software upgrades and updates every 6 months are all very appealing.

However, I am tired of trying so hard to accomplish a task that takes too long in Linux that is a breeze in Windoze.

So, I fired up a clean install of Windows 8 (still hate the interface), re-added Office 2010, Photoshop and Lightroom. I was missing these apps the most. Everything else is synchronized via Google products.

Oh, and where did Microsoft hide the primary button?

Twitter 7.0

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Today marks the seventh year of TWTTR.

As an early adopters back then we didn’t know what we were doing but we had fun exploring it and making it ours.

Over the years, like all social media platforms it has gained huge users both legitimate and spam.

I’ve also signed up for a similar platform called App.net. The difference between these two is that App has a business model. You have to pay to get in. This helps eliminate the spam and increases the desire for a great interactive product since everyone is invested in it.

The problem is that most of the friends and followers I’ve made over the years on Twitter have not or will not convert.

Dilemma.

Digital Moderation

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You know what I learned from my one week digital cleanse?

Moderation.

After a self-mandated abstinence from digital media I had almost 1000 blog feed posts waiting for me. 5,000 tweets and numerous G+ posts.

I redeemed my time by reading physical books, right-sizing the material stuff I own and dabbling into PhP, MySQL and Apache server systems.

So great was the temptation to consume media that I had to bury the pervasive Google apps in a folder deep down to the kernel.

I used Firefox for a week because Chrome has those tempting apps built in.

From here on out, I will moderate and limit my intake.

Check the feeds once a day. Check email twice a day.

Now it is time to declare digital bankruptcy and clear the notifications and alerts and the feeds. Starting from zero…now.

Digital House Cleaning

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Since my digital sabbatical started yesterday morning, I’ve decided to clean up and purge a few things.

I removed the Linux and Windows 7 partitions and did a clean install of Ubuntu 13 Beta Raring Ringtail as the primary operating system. Also added Virtualbox.

Inside the virtual hard disks I am running Windows 7, Fedora 18 and pretty soon Linux Mint.

These will be for various programs, testing and needs.