Identity, Security & Me

In the current global economic crisis, it is really prudent to spend £9.2bn on the 2012 London Olympics. I’m sure the money could be put to better use…..

I’ve decided to start posting videos to YouTube. Therefore, if you want a laugh at my poor attempt at Beethoven, please see here.

I have this theory which seems to bear out no matter where I travel to in the UK…..

When I was a child I used to throw pennies into wishing wells and make a wish. As I grew up I noticed the security protecting the coins getting stronger (however, I digress).

What I have noticed now for a number of years is that any expanse of water contained in a public place becomes a public wishing well. You may notice that all of these places have coins thrown into them. These include water features in shopping centres as well as water fountains outside.

What happened to the good old wishing well and why do people find an urge to thrown money anywhere where there is water?

It still amazes me that so many of my friends are displaying their date of birth on their public facebook profile.

Don’t they realise how useful this is to potential Identity thief?

Where have all the original iPods gone?

I have an 4GB iPod Mini. Its not that old and it serves my purpose. However, I seem to be the only person on the planet that has a pre-video iPod. What has happened to all of the people who bought older iPods. Do they just throw them away and buy new ones or is there some sort of iPod graveyard that they send them to?

Yesterday, the BBC announced the their iPlayer can now be run on the Wii through the use of the Internet Channel and that they even hope to provide a separate channel to remove the dependancy on the Opera browser.

I had to try it. How cool!!

I’m sure like me you are constantly getting invitations to the myriad of different social networking/web 2.0 sites out there. Personally, I have accounts on:

Facebook
LinkedIn
MySpace
Naymz
Plaxo
Del.icio.us
ClaimID
Technorati
and i’m sure there are others……

I don’t have the time to keep all of these up to date, never mind joining any more.

Looking specifically at the number of social networks out there, surely there has to be a point when these must start to consolidate their functionality. I can see it has already starting happening to a certain extent.

LinkedIn is designed for business relationships. Plaxo extends that so you can categorise people as either business or friends. Similarly, LinkedIn allows you to write an endorsement for someone, whereas, Naymz whole philosophy is based on reputation and references.

I don’t see how all of these sites can be sustainable as we move further into 2008.

Its been a while since I last posted and I must admit I am way behind on reading other people’s blogs. Things have been hectic both at work and at home. However, I hope to start being a bit more active on my blog now and get back into the swing of posting regularly.

I certainly have plenty to catch up on.

Thanks for sticking with me!

Limitations in the characters that can be used in a URL can make for some interesting interpretations of website names. I can’t believe that the people who came up with these actual real website names didn’t spot their obvious ‘faux pas’.

http://www.expertsexchange.com  ‘Experts Exchange’ or ‘Expert Sex Change’

http://www.whorepresents.com  ‘Who Represents’ or ‘Whore Presents’

http://www.penisland.net  ‘Pen Island’ or ‘Penis Land’

http://www.therapistfinder.com  ‘Therapist Finder’ or ‘The Rapist Finder’

Made me chuckle!!

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San Francisco has redeemed itself.

After my slightly derogatory comments earlier in the week, today I had chance to explore a bit more of the city. After walking round for several hours as well as driving a number of miles around, I managed to find the ‘better’ places in the city.

I would love to come back to San Francisco when I aren’t working and bring my wife. She would love the place. Especially all the designer shops around Union Square!

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