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My Technical Analysis of the President’s Birth Certificate Confirmed, Confirmed, & Reconfirmed

My Technical Analysis of the President’s Birth Certificate Confirmed, Confirmed, & Reconfirmed

The 2011 Publication of President Barack Obama's Birth Certificate Image Set Off a Firestorm of Accusations.

The 2011 Publication of President
Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate Image
Set Off a Firestorm of Accusations.

Perhaps the strangest technical adventure I’ve been involved with was my analysis of the computer file showing an image of the birth certificate of the President of the United States.

In April of 2011, rumors that President Barack Obama had been born outside of the United States led to the President posting an image of his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate on the White House web site. This was presented to the public in an Adobe PDF file.

The internet was immediately flooded with observations of “anomalies” in this file, along with claims that it was a hand-created forgery produced using Photoshop or some similar graphics program. Various “experts” in computer technology and graphics instantly appeared to proclaim the file a “100% forgery.”

Eventually, the Sheriff of one of the most populous counties in America — Maricopa County, Arizona, which includes the city of Phoenix — held a press conference in which he declared the President’s birth certificate a “proven” forgery.

It was a situation that caught my interest — well before Sheriff Arpaio’s rather odd press conference — both for technological and political reasons.

During the summer of 2011, my initial probings turned into an analysis of the President’s birth certificate image from pretty much every conceivable angle — as well as a full-fledged book. As time went on, I also became quite involved in the historical, legal and Constitutional question of the meaning of “natural born citizen” as well, and wrote the equivalent of a second book just on that topic.

Over the past 2-1/2 years, both topics have been analyzed to death. I am pleased that my analysis and writings on both issues have been confirmed, confirmed, and reconfirmed.

If this is a topic that interests you, there’s lots to read at my separate web site that was dedicated to investigating the questions — both technical and legal — surrounding Barack Obama’s eligibility to be President. Readers and customers from both sides of the aisle, please note that the question was never one of politics for me — it was a simple matter of the technical and historical truth. I also felt I was doing a service by providing truthful and accurate answers to questions that quite a few Americans were asking. That those answers may have disappointed some was inevitable, whichever direction the investigation took.

While I have never been a political supporter of this particular President, I also have never believed that we should support a political agenda, even if that agenda is good, with falsehood. If our agenda is right, then it can, should and will speak for itself.

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Our New, Improved Hosting Just Got Even Better!

Our New, Improved Hosting Just Got Even Better!

secure-hostingLast Saturday, some criminals stole the email passwords for one of our hosting customers. They then used those to log into our shiny new hosting and send tens of thousands of spam emails.

The customer’s passwords were hard enough to guess. Unfortunately, they didn’t have to guess them: His computer was infected with viruses that simply gave the passwords away.

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New, Improved Web Hosting Is Here!

New, Improved Web Hosting Is Here!

woman-laptopSometimes it takes a problem to spur you into making an improvement.

I’ve been hosting web sites for around 10 years, and have had the same basic setup for almost that long. It’s worked well.

Until the past year or so, at least.

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Avast! Lays Claim to Being World’s Most Popular Antivirus

Avast! Lays Claim to Being World’s Most Popular Antivirus

Only a couple of years ago, Avast! was a decent antivirus program with a control panel that I regarded as very user-unfriendly.

It took the form of some kind of weird music player, described by some as a “car radio.”  You would press the “Play” button if you wanted to scan for viruses, and it always struck me as very strange and user-unfriendly.

Then in the summer of 2009, the makers of Avast! gave up on their need to be “more creative” than everybody else, abandoned the music-player look, and came out with a clean, simple control panel that was a lot like everybody else’s — except possibly even cleaner and simpler.

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I Kick a Hornet’s Nest by Analyzing Barack Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate File

I Kick a Hornet’s Nest by Analyzing Barack Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate File

We live in an age in which the internet can be used for all kinds of extraordinary communication.

The internet gives us access to things past generations never had access to, and the opportunity for almost anyone to publish their opinions to the world.

One way to do this is through YouTube. Several videos posted there recently have been drawing hundreds of thousands of views. The ones I refer to claim that Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate, released on April 27th, contains obvious evidence of fraud.

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