The greatest hypnotist on the planet Earth is an oblong box in the corner in the room. It is constantly telling us what to believe is real. If you can persuade people that what they see with their eyes is what there is to see you’ve got them. Because they’ll laugh in your face of an explanation then which portrays the big picture of what’s happening… and they have

Let me know if you have any questions, but if you want to jump straight into translation mode go right ahead 

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Once my presentation is up on WordPress.tv I’ll be sure to add it here as well, but feel free to ask question if you have them.

Edit: It’s up and for your viewing pleasure:

For starters, I will browse mostly in Google Chrome’s Incognito modus, but that’s not all I do. Here are three things I add to that mix:

1. Hosts file protection – There’s a lot of nasty and disgusting stuff I don’t particularly care to ever see myself, but most certainly don’t want my kids to see when they browse the webs. Blocking those particular sites on a hosts level would be the best way to do this and fortunately there is an initiative that has generated one huge mother of a list of sites you don’t ever need to see. All you have to do is copy and paste the contents found here into your hosts file and hit save.
2. Adblock Project – Installing the Adblock Project browser plugin helps hide all the stuff the hosts file doesn’t take care of. No brainer, really.
3. Ghostery – Ghostery™ sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity. So, basically, you get to see who tracks you.

So, there you have it. I’m sure there’s a lot more I could do, so I am all ears to what you guys suggest in the comments!

The greatest form of control is where you think you’re free when you’re being fundamentally manipulated and dictated to. One form of dictatorship is being in a prison cell and you can see the bars and touch them. The other one is sitting in a prison cell but you can’t see the bars but you think you’re free.

The warning that I got was this one:

Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
         "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.

Basically this stopped me from doing a proper git pull on a server I was working on. The solution ended up being a few lines that needed to be added to the Git config file. Just add the following command in your terminal and that should do the trick:

$ git config branch.master.remote origin
$ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master

Hope this helps you as much as it did me