Posts Tagged With : ramble

Facebook and work

Facebook and work clash again as a Swiss woman is fired after being seen active on Facebook whilst off ill from work with a migraine. I think what this story teaches us, amongst other things, is not to befriend complete randoms on Facebook – after all, they might be your manager’s fake spy persona! (You [...]

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Baby one-up-manship and Google privacy

So what have we had this week? I’m still working on my new plugin, so I won’t be ready to release that just yet unless I really get a crack on. But as we all know 90% of IT projects come in late and overbuget so this is no exception. In baby news, we Brits [...]

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Hewitt pushing assisted suicide law change

Patricia Hewitt the ex-Health Secretary has put forward a motion for MPs to debate a change to the law that would allow people to legally take others abroad to die. The motion is not expected to succeed. I think that’s unfortunate. We need European cohesion on this subject, because at the moment we’re in the [...]

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Facebook control

There’s a fair few odd things going on this week, one of them is Facebook’s reaction to the recent fuss over facebook content privacy, which is to generate some kind of democracy of the people to decide how its rules go. Now, I honestly didn’t see what all the fuss was about in any event [...]

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Gmail drops off the map

Gmail disappeared for a number of hours today with an as-yet-undefined issue that affected the free gmail service as well as the paid for hosted mail apps functionality. Unfortunately for Google, the popularity of the service means then when they do go down, it pretty much gets noticed. I wonder if we will hear the [...]

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