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Pownce Invites

Nathan — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:03:44 +0000

I just got invited to Pownce, so I thought I would post some of my invites up for you all.

CHANGE THE E-MAIL ADDRESS AFTER LOGING IN!!!

http://pownce.com/signup/0Ro2q
http://pownce.com/signup/nyPDK
http://pownce.com/signup/zWH7m
http://pownce.com/signup/xZNQI
http://pownce.com/signup/EQq8a

Tags: Social, Web_2.0

Protected: The Bathroom Diaries

Nathan — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:32:55 +0000

Tags: Bathroom, Social, Travel

Facebook — Privacy Issue or Fun Stalking Tool

Nathan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:19:39 +0000

Oogaly boogaly boo!

Now on to a rant about privacy and Facebook

Yesterday Facebook.com released a new feature which they call news feed. Basically its an embedded rss reader that tells you what has changed on your friends profile. Also they added a small one to each persons profile. Now we can look at this with two different views.

This is an invasion of privacy. Which I can see, and the view is all well and good, except for the fact that you put your information on the site for others to see. The people looking at the news feed can see what the news feed it telling them by going to your profile.
This is a tool that can be used to make stalking easier. The only thing I can say to that is YES!, and what is your point. Could that stalker not just go to your profile and get the same information? The answer YES!

If you use Facebook as so many do, you notice that there are people with thousands of friends. Those are the people saying statement 1. This could easily be solved by those people only having friends they are…..FRIENDS WITH!!!! Facebook could dumb there site down to deal with these assholes by making a tiered list of friends. Like “Best Friend”, “Good Friend”, “Acquaintance”, or Facebook could make the news feed an optional tool. But fuck that. Then your so called private info wouldn’t show up to acquaintance. Then there are people that are bitching about the stalking. Lets first look at the word stalker, or in this case stalking (Stalking is a legal term for repeated harassment or other forms of invasion of a person’s privacy in a manner that causes fear to its target. ) So statement 2 is stating the something as statement 1. So as I see it, three things can happen,

1. People can cut down the number of friends they have, to only FRIENDS!!!
2. Facebook can change there site to accommodate assholes like these
3. There assholes can take there shit somewhere else

My vote goes for 3.

Tags: Bitching, Friends, Social, Web_2.0

Waiter = Bitch

Nathan — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:24:32 +0000

So today, I went to breakfast with Kelli. We went to Ihop, oh shit i forgot to say I am a student…oh well. Anyway our waiter was not nice at all. The only words she said to us, where “Are you ready yet”, “Ok I’ll come back”, and “What can I get for you”. That is it, she was such a bitch. I swear I don’t think she knew what “Your Welcome” means. Although how could she when she didn’t give us enough time to say “Thank You” All in all she was at Bitch, and for the $20 we spent she only got a $2 tip. Maybe that will teach her, although probably not, she probably got madder…lol

Anyway, what a great weekend I had, Friday and Saturday nights were great. I got to hang out with friends and have a great time. Not once did Lauren go through my mind. Thank god. On Sunday, I didn’t do anything, I sat around all day, and did nothing. What a great way to spend my first weekend off, in years.

Tags: Food, Friends, Social, Waiter

SSH Tunnel

Nathan — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:34:32 +0000

So I finally got a SSH Tunnel set up and working. So everything that goes through the browser is encrypted. With this new job, I think they may actually watch the network, and I don’t like the idea of my traffic being watched. So now they cant see it…he he Well anyway, it’s off to the 2600 meeting tonight, then to the anti-V-day/housewarming party over at Honey’s, Cherry’s and Mog’s Should be fun, well at least I hope so. This will be the first time in a while I’m going to go out and not care what Lauren is doing for the night. Although we did spend a little time together today. It was weird cause, everything was the same when we used to hang out, except we didn’t touch each other, like couples do. So maybe we’re cool and can hang out and stuff. Well back to work.

ttfn

Tags: Encryption, Feelings, Social, Work

A test of Flock!

Nathan — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:07:26 +0000

Well this is a little test of Flock, the new social web browser. If this posts it will be really really fucking awesome. Check it to Flock

Tags: Flock, Social, Web_2.0