So last week I started filling out my Facebook timeline. The idea behind it is pretty cool in the sense you give yourself a time machine to look back at your life. I like the presentation and most of the options (some things are lacking). Overall it is a good experience, though …
Category Archives: Personal Writing
Continuing Internet Cleanup
Well so far I’m still working through accounts cleaning up and removing data online. Once again any original content or data is being archived. So far gone: Jaiku 23HQ Tagged Ping.fm Pixel Pipe Plaxo Identi.ca Brightkite Friendfeed Bebo Multiply Typepad Streetmavens Myyearbook Photobucket I’m done for now – I think I’ll still be at this …
Internet Cleanup – Winterize Your Old Accounts
Yesterday I posted about not deleting old accounts where there is a chance you will ever use them again or have made friends where you identity could be mistaken if someone used your old username. I knew what I was going to write about today, but a friend in the comments did make a …
Don’t Just Delete Old Online Accounts
This is just a friendly reminder to everyone in the online nether regions. You hear all the time about people quitting facebook, myspace, blogger, etc. There is a problem with that. Most of the time when you delete your account from these services your username is now free. This means anyone …
Being a Sith Lord For My Son
Lex has been obsessed with the Dark Lord of the Sith since the Superbowl Commercial last year. We have spent the whole last year either having to play the Imperial March or hearing Lex sing it pretty much daily for hours on end. The “Darth Vader Song” is his most played track on his iphone. We …
Losing Time
Fair warning, this post delves into Star Wars and then goes into personal real thoughts. Depending on your geek factor this may not be the post for you. I haven’t read a Star Wars book in over a decade. I used to obsessed with them. Up until 1998-1999ish I would say I had owned and …
Revisiting Old Writing – It’s Great and Terrible
Like most other people that do any amount of writing, you have a backlog of things you have started and never finished. They are tucked away in dark corners on your hard drives and most of them don’t see the light day again. Being the digital packrat (and obsessed with digital organizing as …