As social media becomes more and more integrated into everyday life, there are steps that should be taken to prevent the hacking of your accounts and prevent rogue applications from posting unwanted updates.
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Do you want people to know your exact location?

I do not think that it is a really good idea to be sharing your exact location.

These servies often use your cell phone’s GPS to find your location (or if that does not work, they triangulate your location using cell phone towers). Then you “check-in” and often times, this check-in is shared across the Internet to social networking services. Most of these posts give the name of the location you are at and are geotagged with the exact location you are it.

However, this public sharing of your exact location is, in my opinion, not a good thing. This brings up safety and security concerns. What if someone you don’t to see sees where you are and they find you? What if a criminal sees it and decided to damage your property? I don’t think anyone would want either of those scenarios.

I understand that there may be perks to checking in at some places, but the public knowledge of your exact location is not that good of an idea.

At 9AM this morning, there was still a line outside the Oshkosh AT&T store for the new iPhone 3G. What makes matters worse for the people in line – it has been quite rainy this morning (no flooding thankfully).

There is a lot of hype going around now with the coming of the iPhone 3G. I have an iPhone and will not be buying the new one. The new hardware doesn’t appeal to me. However, I can not wait for the new iPhone 2.0 software and the push syncing with MobileMe and the support for multiple calendars. I hope there will be good apps coming as well.

I just got it and I love it. The controls are different than in Madden, but I have sort of adapted. I like when your gut is celebrating and a guy from the other team comes and tackles him.

I have upgraded the blog to WP 2.0. This is a test post.

…when you are not a member of that site! I just got a phishing scheme e-mail claming to be from eBay. I have never signed up at eBay! Take that phishers!

First off, I now have a Mac mini. It came Monday and I’m home setting it up (in fact, I’m using it right now). Now, with is will come some changes to the site. Some of the greens don’t match in Safari and IE while they do in Firefox. The changes that will take place I have though about, but now will to make things equal across all browsers.

UPDATE: Any changes will most likely come next weekend.

Oh those tricky spammers – they know ways around the lack of comment writing places here. But they won’t show! I have prevented comments from showing! Ha! Fooled them! Oh, after this, comments will NEVER be back.

EDIT: I wonder if the upgrade to the latest WP Nightly Build will fix it or not. I may never know.

And orange should be banned for being the “color of majority” on NFL uniforms. It doesn’t work well in Cincinatti, Chicago, and most definetly Cleveland. Look at those monstrosities Da Bears are wearing today.

AVG Anti-Virus 7.0 Free has been released. If you use AVG Free, you better upgrade. AVG Anti-Virus 6.0 Free will not be supported after December 31.