So my parents come into my room unannounced...

http://t.co/1EhE5GBcJW

Baret Steed is tired of Facebook. She’s had an account since she was 13, but isn’t a fan of the fact that the social network now includes not only her friends, but also her parents, aunts, and uncles. “It’s almost like they’re the only ones on there,” she says. “All your relatives are constantly commenting on your stuff. I appreciate the gesture and wanting to keep up with my life, but it’s kind of annoying.”

Yep. There should be no expectation of privacy on the Internet for kids from their parents.

Working from Home -- Another Place

Since Yahoo restricted work-at-home options for their employees, there has been a great deal of discussion. I like this place for work occasionally as it provides the flexibility needed to make work-life balance, well, balanced. But the bottom line on Yahoo's decision will be whether it is good for business -- read profitable. Since providing this additional place for people to work is primarily a personnel decision and people are expenses, the effect on productivity, retention, hiring, job satisfaction will be the ultimate test of this decision and all the debate in the various places will be moot. One can by cynical and say that this might be a move to get higher-priced talent to leave so that the company can hire H1-B personnel, but I can't make that comment as I have no knowledge. The profit equation will be the deciding factor for Yahoo. You can probably tell that my personal opinion is that it is the wrong decision and I know that, were I looking to change jobs and join Yahoo, this would definitely be a negative factor in my decision.

So do I need pictures?

It seems everyone posts pictures on social media. Admittedly we ARE visual creatures and many of the pictures are of cats, but, I'm wondering, do you read more if there are pictures? Do the pictures need to be relevant? Like, here's my cat.

Not much to do with the discussion, but what the heck, he's funny when he does this. So visual posts have it over just words, even if the words are the important part. More cats, it seems.

Dead Android Tablet

My Acer a100 died in its sleep a week ago. Luckily it is still under warrantee, so it's at the hospital in Temple TX as I write this blog. Since that tragic event, I have been using the iPhone 4s from work as a main place. The small form factor is somewhat hampering at times, but, otherwise, things are OK. Waiting to get the tablet back, however.

Here come the reviews

Now that we have survived the Mayan apocalypse, we need to survive the reviews of the past year. Lists of everything from best dressed to disasters will be replayed endlessly for the next couple of weeks. Maybe the apocalypse would be preferable.

End of the world, 21-Dec-2012

I want to announce my last post as the world is going to end Friday. I don't think I want to spend my last days blogging. I'll be the guy partying his brains out.

Facetious? Maybe just a bit.

See you Sarurday--enjoy the end!

Where are you lately?

I find myself using my Android tablet more than my laptop to interact with the web. I don't have a fancy phone, but imagine if I did I'd use that also. I imagine I'm not alone in this movement toward devices other than the computer as a physical place of interaction. I do consume more than I create on the tablet. I still find a keyboard a necessity for real content creation and don't really care for the on-screen version.

Where do you access your places? I bet for most, it's on some sort of portable device today. Will the computer go away? I don't think so, but it may move more toward the tablet and smaller portable devices. We already see the trend with windows 8 and its apps. See you in your place.