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29 Kasım 2010 Pazartesi

Beware: Facebook can cost you more than your privacy

Always remember, anything you post online eventually be seen by anyone. And often it will be the person you least want to see it. Be wise, be careful, and pretend every private post will be trumpeted from the rooftops.

In anticipation of being laid off, she updated her status on Facebook and wrote:
''I speak for myself when I say WoOOOOooooOooooHOoooOooOoo' it was pretty damn obvious something like this was coming. I'm neither stupid nor naive ... and quite honestly it is the best news ever as far as I am concerned!''
'It was not unexpected. I've just hung on by my fingertips to stick around long enough for a nice payout when they could've had me out long ago without a penny! More fool them! Haha! Xx.''
A work colleague saw the posts and told the bank.
The bank responded by ordering her to take part in a disciplinary hearing, where her bosses decided "to sack Furlong without a penny of the money she was expecting," as the Parents Lounge, a UK website, puts it.

27 Kasım 2010 Cumartesi

A Wordle (i.e. word cloud based on frequency of use) based on my @Nanowrimo novel. (via http://www.wordle.net)

A Wordle (i.e. word cloud based on frequency of use) based on my @Nanowrimo novel. (via http://www.wordle.net)
Originally uploaded by nomad7674.

Terror attempt at Tree Lighting

One wonders if plots like this one - apparently run by a crazy loner assisted by overseas terrorists - are the reasons that the TSA and the president are so unapologetic about "Grope-Gate". It is one thing to monitor a whole organization. It is another to watch for a thousand crazy lone wolves.

A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.

However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.