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Not much to say, so I won't say much.
I've plenty of social stuff lined up for the next 4 or 5 days, so hopefully that is all enjoyable. Barbecue season is approaching, which is good. In fact, I hope to get out a lot this summer, with the improving weather. But, I say that every year and it doesn't usually happen.
The BBC site has another scare story about Facebook. "We have discovered a way to steal the personal details of you and all your Facebook friends without you knowing." it says. What they mean is, "We have discovered a way to steal the personal details that you have chosen to make available, when you also explicitly choose to install an application from a company you have never heard of before." It goes on to say, "When you add an application, unless you say otherwise, it is given access to most of the information in your profile. That includes information you have on your friends even if they think they have tight security settings. Did you know that you were responsible for other people's security?" This last bit is blatantly false; you can get a user's list of friend IDs. That's it. Anything else they show is just the publicly available data that friend already has.
Anybody know if the Sound Control shop here in Nottingham has closed, after the chain went into administration? I hear some of the shops are still operating for now, but I don't know if that's one of them. Looks like I'll have to get used to going a little further out of town for my guitar shopping needs. I'd probably order stuff from Thomann in Germany instead if I thought I could actually get it delivered to my house effectively.
A third of the year is gone, and I still haven't achieved any of the things I set out to do by the end of last year. This is how lives are wasted, I fear! When I have time free, I have no motivation, and vice versa.
A random question for you all: what items or services can you buy which just make life a little bit easier, quicker, better, etc? I'm thinking of things like dishwashers, home delivered groceries, stereos that you can plug an MP3 player into, random stuff which might seem a bit frivolous but saves time and frustration.
I've plenty of social stuff lined up for the next 4 or 5 days, so hopefully that is all enjoyable. Barbecue season is approaching, which is good. In fact, I hope to get out a lot this summer, with the improving weather. But, I say that every year and it doesn't usually happen.
The BBC site has another scare story about Facebook. "We have discovered a way to steal the personal details of you and all your Facebook friends without you knowing." it says. What they mean is, "We have discovered a way to steal the personal details that you have chosen to make available, when you also explicitly choose to install an application from a company you have never heard of before." It goes on to say, "When you add an application, unless you say otherwise, it is given access to most of the information in your profile. That includes information you have on your friends even if they think they have tight security settings. Did you know that you were responsible for other people's security?" This last bit is blatantly false; you can get a user's list of friend IDs. That's it. Anything else they show is just the publicly available data that friend already has.
Anybody know if the Sound Control shop here in Nottingham has closed, after the chain went into administration? I hear some of the shops are still operating for now, but I don't know if that's one of them. Looks like I'll have to get used to going a little further out of town for my guitar shopping needs. I'd probably order stuff from Thomann in Germany instead if I thought I could actually get it delivered to my house effectively.
A third of the year is gone, and I still haven't achieved any of the things I set out to do by the end of last year. This is how lives are wasted, I fear! When I have time free, I have no motivation, and vice versa.
A random question for you all: what items or services can you buy which just make life a little bit easier, quicker, better, etc? I'm thinking of things like dishwashers, home delivered groceries, stereos that you can plug an MP3 player into, random stuff which might seem a bit frivolous but saves time and frustration.
