All posts by Jeff Reifman

Jeff is a technology consultant based in the Pacific Northwest.

GMail Alternatives in the PRISM Age: How to Host Your Own Email Server in the Cloud

Update: You may be interested in Filtered, my new open source IMAP-based mail filtering application which includes the capability to encrypt selected messages, removing them from your IMAP or Gmail account. I’ve posted a new tutorial called, How to Install Your...

/ June 19, 2013

The Light that Comes From Inside

Go to a wide open space, Gaze without looking anywhere The mind stops its building of thoughts, And rests on its own foundation – Immensity. The light that you see by Is the light that comes from inside. – The...

/ June 16, 2013

News Judgment at The Seattle Times Goes Off the Rails

I’ve often mocked the editorial judgment at The Seattle Times e.g. for never covering Microsoft’s $1.51 billion Nevada tax dodge ($4.37 billion if you include impacts from lobbying) – likely due to their cozy ties with Microsoft’s tax dodger in...

/ June 5, 2013

Listening to: If You Leave by Daughter

I’ve been listening a lot to Daughter’s If You Leave. Here are some sample lyrics or listen to it below: Winter Drifting apart like two sheets of ice, my love Frozen hearts growing colder with time There’s no heat from...

/ June 3, 2013

The Seattle Times Executive Editor Covering Microsoft’s CEO Handshake

The Seattle Times failure to cover Microsoft’s $1.5 billion Nevada tax dodge is finally in the news again this week: The Stranger’s Slog Seattle Times Realizes Microsoft’s Running the Legislature, Slashdot Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State’s Budget and...

/ April 27, 2013

Sighting of the Highly Elusive Pacific Northwest Sex Croissant

Pretty excited to see one of these today … usually quite rare:

/ April 24, 2013