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Name: Jason
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Johnson City
Birthday: 1/31/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: What is a hobby? Having fun, of course.
Expertise: Anything computerish; being lazy
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Internet)
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
8/1/2003
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| New BlogI've decided to move over to blogger, simply because it's cooler. If you want to keep up with the Joneses, you can now find me at http://ionpro.blogspot.com/. | | |
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New Emery album is out. It's pretty good, if you liked their first one.
Evidentally, this is a Christian band (?), but you could've fooled me
-- I still don't know nor care much about their lyrics.
It's Saturday day, and I'm making a weblog entry. How shocking. I
recently came to terms with the fact that the summer was damned near
over. I have to pack everything up to move next weekend (!) and be out
by that Tuesday. I'm trying to decide whether I want to take a day off
work to move -- it would give me more time that way, but I probably
could get people to help if I did it after 5. As far as where I'm
moving to though, I'm not sure. I asked Chris Contos (a guy I work
with) to put in a request for me to move in on Tuesday, which would let
me get moved in straight from here. But the odds of that being approved
and probably pretty slim. So I'll probably have to move twice -- once
from here to various people's living rooms, and once from there into my
dorm on that Thursday (the 18th). In the meantime, I'll be crashing on
a couch, or a floor, neither of which sounds *particularly*
appealing... but at least it's just two nights.
What else? Work is going well. While it seems there is a problem with
some crucial Vanderbilt service once a week, I believe that the Help
Desk has been holding up brilliantly, which I think reflects well on
me. I have to get in gear for training of our new employees for the
fall, however. I also need to figure out what other class I'm taking.
Going for my first 16 hour semester this time, and I have to admit, I'm
a little scared. It's been years since I worked really, really hard at
classes, and I have to maintain a 3.0+ GPA to keep my money. But we'll
burn that bridge when we get there, I suppose.
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| What is it about moderately stupid coworkers that absolutely drives you
nuts? I have a co-worker, and he's a doozy. He works in a technical job
in a customer facing job, yet he is totally inept at both talking to
customers and technical know-how. It is for people like him that I wish
I had the power to hire and fire people. He would be gone faster then
you can say, "huh?"
So, anyway, another Saturday night, drunk and playing online poker...
this is becoming somewhat of a tradition. Something tells me my liver
probably isn't too keen on a tradition that keeps me drunk 2 nights a
week. On the bright side, my tounge is blue, and Emery is rocking.
Got my second 1905FP in. This is going to be sweet when I get back to
the dorms. Right now, it's pretty hot, but I don't really use it since
I have the TV behind me -- though it's still handy for development
work.You can put so much on a 2560x1024 screen, or 2048x1280 screen
(both rotated into portrait mode).
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| - Somedays
So, how is everyone? Long time no update. I've been chilling here in
Nashvegas; enjoying my work, and enjoying my play. Lots of online poker
action has been happening, with a mostly favorable result. I'm still
not quite even, but I'm getting close. Work is going okay; we seem to
be getting utilized by the people there for projects that have a real
impact on Vanderbilt's operations, and I feel like I'm doing something
important. If not for a certain few of my colliegues -- the annoying
ones -- work would be great. As it is, it's merely good, and money is
awesome (of course).
I still need to explore the local nightlife to my satisfaction, because
drinking and playing poker isn't most people's idea of great fun
(though I do enjoy it). Speaking of which, who pays $33.80 for a handle
of 190-proof stuff? Evidentally, me. That's damn expensive, but I guess
it's worth it. Can't wait until I'm 21 and don't have to deal with
crazy prices.
What else? Well, I'm a bit drunk, but that's nothing unusual. I need to
go swimming sometime in the near future. Also, my cell phone is not
working at the moment. Something is broken. I hope to have it fixed
sometime this week, but you can never tell with these things. If you
really need me, call [Removed at the request of the copyright holder]. That's my buddy Brian's cell, and he'll probably be close
by. I'll also be checking my voice mail from time to time, so feel free
to leave a message.
Hope everyone's summer is super!
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| So I was browsing Xanga today and came to the conclusion that, in spite
of my unfettered access to the Internet growing up, some parents should
keep a closer eye on what their kids put online. For instance, I was
required to use a pseudonymn for my online activities, which I
continued to do until I was 17. However, it seems this isn't popular on
Xanga, with blogs from kids as young as 7 (!) -- kids who've listed
their metro, their age, their name, and where they go to school. It's a
pedophile's dream -- a ready made collection of personal information,
including insight into a kid's habits from reading their journals.
I have some ideas on how to correct this, but for the kids here, the
cat's already out of the bag -- these 2k (or so) youngsters in the
Johnson City area already have revealed their information; it's the
same for virtually any metro. Requiring a connection -- while anyone
can establish a blog, to view it you have to be invited or know a
friend of the person -- would go a significant distance towards cutting
down the access to the information. This would have to be applied as a
default, and retroactively, site-wide. Otherwise, I could just befriend
one of your friends, and traverse the network in an automated fashion
from there.
Social networking sites, like The Facebook, ConnectU, Friendster, etc,
seem to have already gotten this right. Why can't a similar solution be
retrofitted onto Xanga, Blogger, LiveJournal, etc. to protect the
privacy of those members of society who are really too young to be
aware of the dangers they face?
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