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Fort Woods

Fort Woods writes about travel, technology, privacy, memories, and life at Prefer Not To Divulge. This short author bio is a placeholder and can be edited later.

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Why PNTD? Why .ch?

By Fort Woods · August 14, 2026

You don't have to give up personal data just because a form asks for it. Here's the story of how routine school registration and polite non-compliance gave birth to PNTD.ch.

Back When a Laptop on the Beach Was Still a Dream

By Fort Woods · August 13, 2026

Working remotely from anywhere in the world is easy today thanks to 5G modems and Starlink, but reaching that dream in the mid-2000's was a patience testing exercise with 5 KB/s GPRS data, laptop batteries that lasted at best a coupple of hours, and the always teaching English falback fallback.