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The Mystic Bird
http://themysticbird.com
The Mystic Bird is a journal of sorts about the author's experiences with Linux, computers, web hosting, applications, online apps and a host of other related topics.
Recent Posts
Decision to Convert
Hi all! Hope you’ve been doing ok. It’s been a while since I posted anything and it may be an even longer period before I do so again but this one has to do with my decision to convert. Heh, not to a specific religion or even back to Wind...
Paying it Forward
Life is a funny ride sometimes. It takes you to highs you never imagined and some lows you wish you could forget. Either you hang on with all your might or you get left behind in the dust. As many of you know, things are tough all over the world righ...
Company computer infected after visit to Yahoo
Sounds pretty damning doesn’t it? Well, read on and see why Linux is showing itself as more secure than Windows like never before. This story takes place at a local company with no malicious activity occurring. Several employees play Fantasy Sp...
FaceBook buys out FriendFeed
Seeing as FaceBook has just bought out FriendFeed and I have no real love for FB, I feel a privacy issue forthcoming and a new Micro$oft emerging. FB has had their own issues with privacy lately so this is an expected reality for FF in the very near ...
FriendFeed
As often as I've tried over the past few days to set my account to protected or private so as to prevent the above from happening, it's resulted with a catastrophic FAIL each time. Same results with blocking them as well. Net result is again FAIL....
Cloud computing – What if?
Think about it for a minute...we all use the cloud, as it's become known as, for most of our day to day tasks. Nothing wrong with that really but, what if it were to, say for example, go away? What would become of all our data? Would it still be ther...

