Too bad I don’t actually work for Google – but if they won’t let me have my own name, maybe I don’t want to anyway!

I went to a business social yesterday – my 1st one – usually I’m more than happy to just code at home with my PC and Pandora, but they did mention hors dourves and a bar, so I figured I’d give it a shot (although I had to pay to drink ARGH!).

Anyway, I struck up a conversation with some dude that turned out to be in sales – I still don’t know what he was doing there besides handing out his card to everybody, but at least he knew all the catch phrases I find oh so dear… He kept my attention for a solid 30 seconds until he started talking about Flash this, and Flash that – at which point I knew it was time for a refill or I was just gonna have to get out of this waste of time get-together.

Yesterday I talked about the hyperbole around Twitter – a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.

Today I’m just gonna add on to that discussion with a quick reference to Facebook, where users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people.

After 13K+ saves to Delicious.com – the granddaddy of web2.0 sites IMO – I can honestly say the whole movement is a load of crap for the little guy, and just works out for advertisers and the few that do make it big – which I honestly do admire.

Well that didn’t take too long, although it was long overdue…

“The release of the memos today appears to be a tacit admission that many of the legal findings made by the Justice Department in weeks and months after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, giving Bush extradordinary executive power, were flawed.”

The last time I walked in a Circuit City store was back in ‘96 when I was looking for a 2nd job to pay off some bills faster. I kid you not, the manager in Columbia actually told me that, “we often bring people in with the coupons, but only have 1 or 2 in stock, just make sure you sell them something”.

He actually said that in an interview! Anyway, just off YouTube from their recent ’sales’ no doubt:

With all the job searches going on nowadays, are you careful with your 3rd party website profiles? Better yet, are those 3rd party websites careful with YOUR profile? Apparently not…

As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database. We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact and account data were taken, including Monster user IDs and passwords, email addresses, names, phone numbers, and some basic demographic data. The information accessed does not include resumes. Monster does not generally collect – and the accessed information does not include – sensitive data such as social security numbers or personal financial data.

The title could’ve been, “Dissect A Frog? You Ain’t Seen Nuttin Yet!”

Students at Waterford Kettering High School in Michigan have been going on field trips to the Oakland County’s Medical Examiner’s office for almost 10 years.

Whether students were thinking about a medical career, or just imagining they were on TV’s CSI, in the end, the trips were canceled when several students complained after viewing an autopsy of their classmate.

Citing ‘no legal obligation’ to inform parents, it’s amazing they went on at all. Obviously the auto industry isn’t Michigan’s only problem!