Archive for August, 2009

Protecting Privacy For Users of Social Networks

August 28th, 2009 | Author: Jan

An arti­cle in the Van­cou­ver Sun (Van­cou­ver, British Colum­bia, Canada) today states that Face­book will revamp the way it pro­tects per­sonal information.

“Pri­vacy com­mis­sioner Jen­nifer Stod­dart on Thurs­day announced Face­book will add “sig­nif­i­cant new pri­vacy safe­guards” to bring the Cal­i­for­nia com­pany into com­pli­ance with Canada’s private-sector pri­vacy law.”

Another point I find important:

“The biggest change, to be imple­mented across the entire Face­book net­work over the next 12 months, will cur­tail the access out­side soft­ware devel­op­ers have to the per­sonal infor­ma­tion of users.”

I don’t know about you but ever since I signed up for Face­book my spam emails has tripled and I get newslet­ters / announce­ments / adver­tise­ments / etc., from peo­ple and com­pa­nies that I never signed up for OR opted in to. I am hop­ing this will help stop that.

Read more of this arti­cle here:

http://snipurl.com/rgxlv

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What is with Google Toolbar Results?!

August 12th, 2009 | Author: Jan

Over the last few days I have noticed that when I type in a search term the results I get have noth­ing to do with my search, or if they do they go to a site that has noth­ing to do with my search term. Here is an exam­ple of when I did a search on facebook.com

Even the sec­ond one that clearly states www.facebook.com is not when I click on it. This is just one exam­ple of many. What the heck is going on?!

Has any­one else had this problem?

Jan

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Heat Stress - How To Work And Stay Cool

August 1st, 2009 | Author: Jan

We have been hav­ing a heat wave here in the Pacific North­west that has bro­ken all records they have ever recorded. So how to you work when the heat is on?

Here on some tips.

1. Go to bed ear­lier and get up ear­lier. You will still get your needed sleep when the sun is down. Have your fan run­ning at high speed and put water or ice in front of it to get the air con­di­tion­ing effect.

2. Put your feet in water to help keep your body tem­per­a­ture down while at the com­puter. May sound strange but cool­ing down your head/feet will help your entire body.

3. Make a “To Do List” in the cool part of the day. When the heat is on it is hard to con­cen­trate — you will have your list to follow.

4. Arrange meet­ings in the early hours. Heat will make you tired so get those meet­ings out of the way in the morning.

5. Shut your computer(s) off dur­ing lunch and din­ner breaks to keep the heat down in the office.

Heat can affect all or your envi­ron­ments so besides try­ing to stay cool make sure that you mon­i­tor the basics — speech (includ­ing email), appear­ance (no meet­ings — keep your attire min­i­mal), pro­duc­tiv­ity (if you need a cool break have a quick shower and get back to work with a refreshed body and mind).

Always remem­ber, this to will pass.

Very Warmly :-)

Jan
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