Where the heck is Caitlin?  Gosh Peter, you could have went back and got her!

http://heroeswiki.com/Caitlin

John Gruber quotes a pretty lame statement on his latest post:

It's been an ongoing process for the last 5-6 years, but we've been slowly conditioned to expose a LOT about ourselves everywhere online.  I've been participating in some of these services but I've been reluctant to share too much.  With the launch of Google Latitude, something snapped in me.  It's time to take a step back and observe before jumping on another bandwagon.  I joined Brightkite because they have great privacy filters on the surface and seemingly would protect my location updates.  In reality, if someone really wanted that data, I know they can get, but that's another rant.  I joined Twitter and told people what I was doing, but not in too much detail.  I turned on location based services on my iPhone (with a GPS) chip while attempting to keep the information at a "city" level and not an exact location.  I did all this, knowing that I would expose the data I submitted.  I signed up for a Gmail account and consolidated all my email in one location knowing Google has shady privacy policies.  With GPS embedded in just about everything and a massive push for more invasion of privacy from the government, I can't help but think about retreating. 

Retreat where? 

Well, I know there's no such thing as TOTAL privacy in this day and age, but I do know a lot of information can remain semi-private if I don't expose it.  I'm seriously considering reverting back to my 90s setup where I hosted all my services locally through my own linux servers.  Also, I would greatly limit my online status updates and whereabouts.  I would heavily encrypt a majority of my data (yes, I know the encryption can be broken, but like I said, there's varying levels of privacy) which would not make it dead simple to get my information as it is in cloud services.  Google is slowly turning into Skynet.  Some people embrace it, but I'm paranoid.  It seems we're all walking zombies willing to submit all of our personal data to the "cloud".  The cloud is outside of your domain, and yet we are willing to keep giving to it.  Even sensitive data!  10 years ago, this type of thing would be laughable.  Now, it's the norm.

At any rate, this is my rant on privacy.  Google, Apple, and Microsoft have access to a lot of our data.  The question is, what are they going to do with it when times get rough?  Think about it.

Bleach fans should love this.  LOL. 

Credit:  @covax914 (http://bit.ly/3r2Ulb) for touch up, http://bit.ly/2lwIF for original

Apparently, anyone can take advantage of a security flaw in Wired.com's website by creating an image of a fake story.  Today's blunder was a fake story about Steve Jobs going into Cardiac arrest.  Seriously Wired, get with the program and fix this.

http://www.wired.com/imageviewer/?imagePath=http://i41.tinypic.com/30ccbb9.png&imageCaption=&imageCredit=#

All you have to do is change the image path and viola, you've posted on Wired for the uninformed.  Sigh.

I think I made a great choice by choosing SmugMug over renewing my Flickr Pro account.  I'm enjoying the features and learning a lot about it.  I'm thinking about possibly integrating it into Bwana.org some, maybe a sidebar widget which shows the latest photos.  I realize there's a bunch of powerful tools I haven't tapped into yet, so the best is yet to come.  On another note, I'm getting better at taking RAW photos, I guess the next step is practice post processing and touch up.

I'm experimenting with importing posts to Bwana.org using RSS feeds from my other sites.  I'm bringing them in as "asides" but I'm finding bugs in the plugins. (Namely, it won't link the title to the source like I told it to.)  I'm updating FriendFeed too so I don't get double posts, etc.  Stay tuned.  Hopefully when the dust settles, you'll be able to get a glimpse of all my sites right at Bwana.org.