Best Friends & Revelations

Take AIM

I downloaded the iPhone AIM application a while back (and seldom used it, in fact I barely sign in ever outside of Gmail chat). Recently the application had an update, which I grabbed without much thought. I recently discovered however, that by default the application was broadcasting my geographic location every 5 minutes (via the phone's GPS)... ummm, creepy. Maybe I'm a ludite, but this is exactly the type of technology I don't want. Needless to say, the option to turn off location has be initiated.

Alma Mater

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have now figured out a way to roughly reverse engineer the way in which Social Security Numbers are assigned. Armed with your date of birth and the state in which you were born, it's now possible to generate a quite small set of digits that are likely to contain your actual SSN."

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Awesome.

But frankly, isn't it ridiculous to use a pithy 9-digit string to represent someone's private data? I mean, it's harder to break into my wireless router.

NOT helpful

That half billion dollar expansion to Hong Kong Disneyland that was announced last week...

maybe not

HK Lawmakers Discuss Disney Expansion Plan

California = awesome.

Nuff said

[fixed]

Trifecta

Yes, three beaches in one week.
No, someone has not taken over this blog.

Today's Adventure

Malibu. Awesome.

A Pettis in it's natural habitat

She even, after much coaxing, conquered that mighty coaster in the background.