Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Procrastination.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Greeeeeeen


Now I am not one for giving a shit about energy and all. But there is some pretty damn innovative thinkers out there. First, this Danish hotel is going to pass out things like meal vouchers to those who pedal a bicycle for energy to power the hotel.

Who the f*** wants to pedal a bike in a hotel. I would want to raid the damn mini bar.

Next is a frog city (France) wants to add embedded microsensors to the ground to generate electricity from pedestrians walking on it. This has also been invented by some Dutch douche. WTF is going on here, am I missing something.

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Just in case anyone is interested or cares, the original Xbox live support was cut today. It is a sad day for those who can not move on.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Watching your back


Apparently one needs to be careful when Tweeting because the US Congress wants to archive your Tweets. I knew this day was coming, I just didn't think it would be so soon. Anything you write online will be accessible to someone out there or aggregated by different services and can be searched by the government. Wired has an article that explains more of the issue. I think I will be tweeting my last one tweet soon. Also Facebook is already archived and used by the government.

I think the rule of thumb is : be careful, you do not know what is going to be read by who. This is especially true when you go to look for your next job. So be careful what you tweet and put on your Facebook.

The US government and potential future employers aside, certain websites crawl and aggregate data, making up profiles of everyone based on what they find under automated searches and the like. I already have a lot out there, maybe its time to stop!

http://www.1mobileman.com/images/Bush-SPY-ON-YOU.gif


Sources:

Wired article: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/loc-google-twitter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

readWriteWeb article: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_us_government_spies_use_facebook.php