First Blog

Everyone these days is flying up to the cloud, for storage of files (dropbox, onedrive, etc). for transmission of information, for communication.  Yet, I am suspicious.  When posting information to one of these free or even private clouds, there is an organization behind the service, often a free service.  No service is in business to simply "give" to the client a valuable portal toward information transmission of any kind. Once a file is up there on the cloud, someone has access, someone wants to know what you are doing, someone wishes to mine the information for advantage.  Someone wants to and needs to pay their electric bill.  Information must be exchanged for cash, influence, or other value. There is a consequence of payment, whether it be so benign as to determine products that may be of interest, to understand confidential aspects of your life, your family, your company, or your government. Private servers are subject to hacking. Public servers are the same but wit

Utopian worlds.   Now. For millions of people, the world is completely safe (or at least a safe place).   Sure, there are threats, but only distant threats or possibilities of distant threats. These people need not be rich.   Many are poor.   Most have a modest income, with housing, with security, few with challenges either to survive, to succeed, other than to enjoy daily safe living.   The recourse to safety and security is significant.   It is foundational as many have noted.   With it, they may operate with impunity, and without it there come suspicion.  It may be callous to mention that this is precisely the hope promised by most retirement communities.   For the retired, this is a well-deserved world paid for with a lifetime of experience, toil, and savings. It is the dream come true – pardon the age.   It is as near as some get to utopia.   Gone are those cares of their past, of jobs, of homes, including that of survival. Community builders advertise exactly this world,