This past Friday, I went to a going away gathering for a friend that is moving to upstate New York. A few years ago this would have been a much bigger deal to me than it is now. Even though we both lived in Southern Wisconsin it seems that for the past year or two [...]
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Facebook updates ToS, again.
In a tweet from LeoLaporte, he linked a blog post from Mark Zuckerberg where Mark explained that they were pulling the previous version of the ToS out of revision control and putting it back into place until they can come up with a better one. Way to go for public pressure and outcry!
Twitter, Blogging and Facebook.
I’ll be honest, until the recent discussion about the changes that [facebook.com][fb] had made to the terms of service, I haven’t thought about it since I started using it. I won’t say since I signed up, because I did that initially with no plans to ever use it except to look at some pictures that [...]
TED talk with Bill Gates on Malaria and Education
I just watched “Bill Gates Unplugged” and I liked some of what I saw. Having lived in Swaziland when I was a kid, malaria is more than just something I have read about. My father is a teacher right now in Public schools, so the issues that we have with our education programs in the [...]
Gamers and Violence
I ran across this article, where a researcher has stepped up to say that there isn’t a link between violent video games and school shootings. **Duh**. You might as well try and say that Music is resp… oh wait, they tried that too.. ummm. Well, it must have been the movies… crap, they tried that [...]
Tanker truck fall down, go Boom?
This morning traffic was being a pain, and as I got off of 12/18 onto 14 East to go home, I saw that there seemed to be some kind of issue on the other side of the exit… and then I heard on the radio that there was a full fuel tanker truck that had [...]
Thanks is such a simple thing.
Saying “Thanks” is such a simple thing. Yet it can go so far. Our mailman just dropped off the mail, since it wouldn’t fit in the mailbox, and he thanked me for keeping the snow away from the mailbox, making his job easier. I think he just made my day.
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