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Why I moved to duckduckgo? Hint: Privacy!

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duckI decided to revive this blog.

I know it’s been super long since I have actively blogged. Sorry!

During that time I still used the internet and yes, I use search engines to stay informed. I even bought Google Glass and searched from it for a few things (mostly directions).

During that time Edward Snowden was all over the new about privacy. And for those of you who may ask: I don’t care if it’s the government spying on me, but private companies who’s using my information, sharing it and even selling to bigDATA… that’s a hell NO!

Long story short (I may have more on this soon), I decided to take control of my privacy, and trust me, it paid off.

I completely moved all my searches to duckduckgo, the only search engine comprehensive enough to fulfill my searching needs without tracking every single search and other data. I migrated back to Firefox from Chrome and I am not worried about my privacy as I used to be.

That’s it. take my advice or don’t, but it’s as simple as that, I will share more on other privacy issues in the near future.

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It’s been a while, a long while.
I’ve missed you. All of you.
I’ve something to share with you, but I’m not ready to share it, it’s personal and I’m still battling weather it’s good or bad. It’s not about business for sure.
I’ll share about it when I’m ready.
For now, I’m really curious to know how many if you still read this blog? Wether you are reading it in your email, rss feed, in a phone app, or whatever. Can you do me a huge favor and let me know if you are reading this? Comment below or just send a tweet to @1LX and let me know.
Can you tell me what would you like me to share here? Should I continue with the same stuff? Should I merge it with another blog? Should I change subjects? Or, should I just shut it down?
Your input WILL help me decide the next steps I should take with this almost 10 years old blog.
Thank you.

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Did you ever break Glass? I broke mine (and fixed it) last night

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Horrifying yet funny story!
Last night I was on my way to Google NYC for a GDG meetup. I figured let me charge Glass, I plugged my Glass to my http://www.voltaicsystems.com/ solar charger backpack. Been doing that with no issues for a while.
Got to google, charge was full, sat down and unplugged it.
It made a crazy noise with vibration (kind like it got stuck on a ringtone loop) then just BLANK.
I mean blank, no picture, no sound nothing. tried o charge, tried to bluetooth it, just nothing.
I figured I am 1 block away from Glass Studio, I should stop by. I went, they had a private party and not one Glass support was available, they asked me to call the 800 number or come back tomorrow. My heart just stopped (I love Glass and am addicted to it). I tried to call the 800 number (twice) with a hold time to connect of over 30 minutes each. I gave up. And went home.
I tried to hard reset it the second time at home and guess what? It worked like nothing happened at all. Turns out, when I tried to hard reset it the first time, I only clicked less than 15 seconds and I never actually turned it back on after that (3 seconds press after a hard reset).
If this eve happened to you, do not panic, just press the power button for 15 seconds, release, then click again for 3-5 seconds.
Hard reset is not factory reset, you will not loose anything, your timeline and cards are all the same.
Did any of you had this issue before? What did you do?