Privacy and your person

I am frustrated and almost irate with my private information being provided to companies I haven’t authorized be given my data. More then that, I think you should be too and that we need to have our rights restored to us in Canada so that such abuse ceases.

Think small(er) to live big

It’s mid-evening as I write this post; why is that important, it isn’t. But it’s when my mind came up with the germ for this post.

So, why am I saying “think small to live big” and what do I mean by it. What I mean, and this is a continuation of the post To Downshift or not to Downshift (and why)…, is if you have less stuff, you can live better on what you do have (whether it be money, the space in your home/apartment or the land you own/share). You can also pick up and move more easily, clean faster and feel life you have more space because of the reduced clutter.

Ah technology, change and problems therein…

This is the 3rd time I’ve been “bitten” and so I’ve decided to leave my home-run WordPress site dead and move into the “cloud” permanently. I enjoyed the running of my site from my home Mac, but with issues over the past year or so, I have increasingly realized that I don’t want to manage the site; but I want to add the content. So to that end, I have decided to leave the home based site idea and resurrect my WordPress.com account (you can reach it either at ControltheChange.net or at ControltheChange.wordpress.com; though I prefer the former). I have all posts and comments migrated; the only thing now it to migrate my stats, I don’t know if it’s possible (probably not, but I’ll check).

Self-Sufficiency doesn’t have to start out big

I was reading a friend’s blog yesterday and reflected on the idea of self-sufficiency/preparedness and realized that planning for a permaculture garden, being able to build my own furniture and repair things is great; but what happens in the here-and-now if I were to get trapped in an elevator, hurt or needed to survive if another massive power-outage were to happen (like the August 2003 one in Eastern North America)? What would I do and what can you do to be prepared?

Decluttering your home and being prepared for things.

So, it’s the middle of August in Ontario and that means hot, humid and gross (made worse as we don’t have air-conditioning). But that’s not the point of this post, the point is that we’re cleaning house and getting rid of stuff we don’t need (either selling in online) or if it’s not viable, moving it to the curb for recycling or garbage removal. As we are cleaning up, we’re finding more junk, stuff we don’t need and/or haven’t ever used. So, how does that relate to being prepared and being prepared for what you might ask.