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    What is Credit and Why is it Important?

    There are a lot of so-called personal finance gurus running around writing books, and getting rich, all while teaching about the evils of credit. Don’t use credit they say. Don’t get the credit cards they say. Don’t take out loans or use other forms of credit. But they are wrong.…

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    What is Money?

    I am a video game junkie. Going all the way back to my first console as a kid, an Atari 2600, I’ve played hundreds of video games and video game franchises over the years. One of my all time favorites is the Fallout series, particularly Fallout 4 (let’s be honest,…

  • Blog - Health & Fitness

    The Body Positivity Movement Failure

    Let’s talk about the Body Positivity Movement. It is failing. It’s making things worse. The underlying idea is not terrible. We can’t all look like cover models, super models, bodybuilders, movie stars, and whatnot. And that’s okay. We need to be accepting of ourselves and others. We need to stop…

  • Blog - Information Technology

    Digital Citizenship

    Most of us in Western countries lead very insular lives.  We understand, on an intellectual level, that not everyone has the same standard of living or access to technology that we do, but fail to really comprehend what that means.  We also may fail to understand exactly how other people,…

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    TrueCrypt’s Demise

    TrueCrypt has been the most popular disk encryption software on the market for the past decade.  But this past week the developers shut it down, very quietly, and seem to have simply disappeared. The old TrueCrypt site at truecrypt.org now redirects to the Sourceforge page where a brief message simply…