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date = "2015-08-19T21:31:26-07:00"
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title = "Do I Stay, Or Do I Go?"
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slug = "do-i-stay-or-do-i-go"
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No, this is not about my job.\
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This is about my web sites, email, and my digital life. For years, I
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have had my domain (duckland.org) and my email address there (duck), and
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I am not going to give those up. I have collected a few others domains
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over the years, and the family has started asking for their own as well.
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Now, if you know me at all, you know that for most of my professional
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career, I have been in Unix operations, specifically Linux. It is what
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I do. But, I am wondering if it is time for me to \'outsource\' one of
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the more difficult parts of keeping my own domain: email. Recently, I
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have gone back to not hosting my email due to various reasons, and went
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back to **GMail**. In the years since I left it, it has gotten much
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better UI for someone who likes keyboards over mice, and the Android
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clients are very nice. Plus, the addition of **Google Now **in the
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Chrome browser has been very handy. \
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Add to the fact I still cannot find a good calendar solution which I can
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host which will work seamlessly across my computers (home and work),
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tablets, and cell phones, as well as let the family share besides
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Google, and it makes **GMail** very attractive.\
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But, on the other side, Google makes their money on ads, and they make
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no secret that they analyze your email (**GMail**), your appointments
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(**Google Calendar**), and your web browsing (**Google Chrome**) to try
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to market to you better. I am still undecided if I want to keep
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swimming up-stream or just give in and use the Google services, because
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they will be better than anything I can set up on my own.\
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\*sigh\*\
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However, I have finally made another change to the blogging solution,
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and I should be able to start writing more. I do have some ideas in a
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back log to talk about.
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