Sinabro

I’m finally Google-free.

I spent a better part of this weekend transferring all my email from GMail to local storage, and I just finished reading (read: skimming headlines) all the items on the Google Reader, and I will be using offline RSS readers (at the moment, I’m trying out Liferea) only.

For the moment, I don’t see anything in my life (er… other than searching, maybe) that depends on Google, and given the recent privacy issues that has come up regarding some of Google’s services, that’s a good thing.

P.S. No, I am not a pedophile (and if I were, I would be smarter than storing incriminating information on anything but local, encrypted storage), but as the saying goes, “It’s first the pedophiles, criminals, and the rest of us,” as government encroachment on our civil rights goes.