This should really fall under the "I need a laugh" department.
In August of 2009, I sent the following enhancement request to Novell, via their enhancement portal:
No long oratory this time, just a link, further proving my point concerning the risk of identity theft.
I don't visit social networking sites. Like many others, I get regular invitations to "join my {fill-in-the-blank} page" and am bombarded with that inane "follow me on {whatever}." I can't stand it. I get invitations to join sites which are supposedly business-related, helping consultants to "network." (And for the life of me, I can't figure out the "follow me" terminology... What, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin?)
Ugh. Disgusting. People might as well ask me to come clean the scum off of their swimming pools.
As an IT consultant, I've been preaching for ages about the possible security concerns these sites pose, let alone the blackhole of lost productivity when employees spend hours during the workday blogging instead of doing the work for which they are supposedly being paid.
We recently had an incident at our office where a client sent a note to my brother via one of these sites, containing some rather specific information regarding her financial matters... As always, the uninformed populace is its own worst enemy. We are the ultimate guardians of our own privacy; if we don't pay attention to such things, breaches in security are our own fault.
There's an interesting write-up here concerning the ever growing spam problem as it relates to just one of these sites, and further info may be gleaned here and here (and the latter link dates to 2007).
Heartfelt congratulations go out to Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown for his stunning victory over his Democrat opponent.
I'm beginning to think that there may yet be hope (there's a word which was so overplayed in the last presidential election, huh?) for our ailing republic. That said, since the 2008 election cycle, I made a vow to only support individual candidates and not the big political machine. I'm not particularly thrilled with former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele as RNC Chair. See comments posted here for pointers to some of his less-than-Conservative (and I use the term "Conservative" - capital "C" - in the spirit of Goldwater and Reagan) views (pro-Roe v. Wade, anti-gun, pro-affirmative action, anti-death penalty...to name a few). Big Tent Party? That's not my party.
For a breath of fresh air, have a glance over at the Ayn Rand Institute's site. Atlas Shrugged, indeed.
Well, it was bound to happen sometime.
Yes, as if I don't already have too much on my plate, I decided to start playing around with WordPress here in the family webspace. I suppose I'll add some entries which are business-related (I'll try not to rant about clients, though), but mainly, I'll just add some bits and pieces of possibly useful information for some people perusing the net, interspersed with some personal info on me that I feel may be appropriate to share with the world.