These photos have been circulating around the Internet. It’s a neat idea, but does this tombstone exist only because it was run through Photoshop first? You decide.
When I installed and started using Windows Vista the other day, I felt like I had been handcuffed. The TV commercial, where the Mac guy is talking with the Windows guy who has a bodyguard is a paradigm of the truth. Cancel or allow. That should be Vista’s motto. The system is built on Python … Continue reading
Just out, and now Windows Vista will soon have a Service Pack released to fix the first round of bugs. Microsoft, as always, continues to tinker with its products. I’m sure users don’t enjoy having to spend boot time waiting on yet another update to slow down their computers (cancel or allow). In this case, … Continue reading
According to BBC News, Lord Justice Sedley, a senior UK Appeal Court judge, has proposed that everyone in the United Kingdom should have their DNA recorded in the national database — including visitors. Privacy advocates may object but it certainly would simplify many genealogy questions and problems, assuming the database were to be available to … Continue reading
A spokesman over at Ancestry.com has formulated a PR response for the company’s selling private info for corporate profit. [Read more about it here]. Stripped down to pertinent points, here is how I view his response. “We hated losing that database, but we did it all for you. We realize we were caught with our … Continue reading
Remember the “life in a fishbowl” I talked about in my last post? It seems that what we want to keep private, or at least restricted to certain people, is fair game for unscrupulous companies. Even the family tree information many have displayed on the Web is not safe from profit-driven genealogy companies. Legacy News … Continue reading
Is there anything sacred in cyberspace? The short answer: No. What you post, everyone can see. Life in a fishbowl. Blah, blah blah. And I would also say that there are no sacred cows, either — Microsoft, Apple, Open Source … et cetera … in short, no entity or idea is above closer scrutiny, especially … Continue reading
