One noteworthy thing is that I have been polishing my powershell skills, using them for a kind of test-driven approach to project management. We have several changeprojects involving changes to the ad and to the clients themselves, so I have been writing up some powershell scripts to collect metrics from those sources and so getting a separate source of progress report than from the project themselves.

Testing for project management anyone?

Journalism at its finest. “The pickles may be innocent”

As you can see I made it more fun to leave comments on the blog now, notice the little monster by the side of your comment? That’s your monster-id, generated from  an advanced analysis of your text to make  a monster to is a precise match with your personality.

Change is good once in a while. Enjoy your stay!

However i did take a pic of the nearby outdoors gym.   Yes indeed! Finally a gym for fat people!  Consider it a response to This post on Dante and Magdas blog.

Aron testing the seated row.

Swedish media reports today that facebook has suffered a leak. 100 million accounts had their information taken and made public. The article even goes so far as to talk about an “attack” being made on facebook. So let get the facts straight. The information was public to begin with, the was no attack and no leak, just a collection of information that may have been accidentally made public, by facebooks users. So in essence, the detailed information that was “leaked” was public from the start.  Classic media hype.

The issue is that Facebook has a tendecy of changing around things, and that can cause confusion. In their recent (Dec 2009) change of privacy settings they made the odd decision that if you did nothing, your account was insecure. A pretty poor design in my opinion, but not a security leak like the article makes it out to be.

Here is the detailed report from Electronic Frontier Foundation about what the changes were and what the significance of them are.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/facebooks-new-privacy-changes-good-bad-and-ugly

Facebook, like all things popular, is a lot of different things for different people. It can be a social platform to keep in touch with your friends, a way to keep tabs on family and collegues, or even to find a job. However lets all agree that facebook was never meant for confidential information. Do you remember when Danish troops used facebook to plan operations in afghanistan? or when Israel did the same for an operation in Pakistan? Pretty extreme examples, but the point should be rather obvious:

If you don’t want to share it, don’t post it on facebook!

Link to the swedish article: http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/facebookanvandares-personliga-information-utlackt-pa-natet-1.1145464

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