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Smarts and Intelligence

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Literature, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Science — 3 min read

Some people seem to be smart, as in intelligent, bright, or knowledgeable, and others not. What makes, or causes, the difference? Someone asked how I come up with my topic for each blog post. Well, basically, I wake up in the morning and spend […]

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The Chaos of Alias Email

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

I don’t know if it is a fad or becoming a trend, but the use of an alias email address it seems to be popular of late. The word alias = a false name used to conceal one’s identity; an assumed name. I know […]

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Email Lists and Tracking

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Technology — 2 min read

The branches of the tree in this picture reminds me of the winding of the information on the internet. I can only imagine all the directions our emails are going back and forth. And how keeping track of it all might be confusing if […]

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Email And Mental Health

December 17, 2021December 18, 2021 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

I have noticed recently more and more that people are talking about how overwhelmed they are with their email inbox and the need to make it more digestible. We know that social media has an effect on our mental health, with the algorithms and […]

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Privacy, Security, and the Web

October 16, 2021October 17, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Family, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Technology — 2 min read

There is much talk these days with digital communications about privacy and security, because there seems to be much confusion mostly on what Big Tech is doing with it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, known for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide […]

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How To Beat The System

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Family, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

Back in the day when I started to drive a car, the police were in the beginning phase of using radars to detect the speed you were driving. What followed was the radar detectors so that you would know if you were in the […]

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Email is the Original Social Media

February 20, 2021March 11, 2021 — Posted inPersonal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 3 min read

With my last blog post, I talked about how using blogs and MeWe are an alternative to the big tech option of information suppression social media. This post I would like to add how Email is the original social media, and I make the […]

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The DIgital World, Respond or React.

February 13, 2021March 11, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity — 2 min read

In the digital world of social media, websites and blogs, mailing list providers and servers, there seems to be an increased amount of delatforming, suppression, and censoring, by companies known as ‘big tech’. Many people seem to be reacting by staying on the platforms […]

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Artists, Photography, and Blogs

December 14, 2020March 11, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity — 2 min read

Social media was intended to be a place where good people of all walks of life are free to express themselves and share opinions authentically. With the widespread censorship we’re currently witnessing runs contrary to this purpose. Likewise, it is a false myth that […]

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People Don’t Like What I Say

October 29, 2020March 11, 2021 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity — 2 min read

In this digital age we have many choices from social media, to e-mail and mailing list, and even blogs, to write our thoughts. But the thing I often hear from people is they have fear of sharing their thoughts because people won’t like what […]

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I'm Frank J Casella, American, freelance photographer, and independent artist. I'm also co-founder of a Catholic Men's Apostolate. My life mission is to share hope and God's love in the world.

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