rants-ravings

No Universal Studios for me...

Plans changed yet again….sigh. Tonight was the Universal Studio conference party. I had really looked forward to going. There was an accident down near where the buses were staging near the conference center and they couldn’t get the buses moving. I stood in line in front of the hotel for about an hour. Two or three buses had managed to take some people but when I got into the line it was already wrapping around the side of the building.

Thinking of Leaving Newsgator...

I’ve been using Newsgator as my RSS aggregator for about a year or more. I was pulled in by the integration of the Outlook Edition of their reader and really like it. Before that I was using SharpReader, but that seemed really slow and was another program to keep open, etc., etc. So, after my 30 day trial of Newsgator Outlook I purchased a license and have been pretty happy. That is up until a week or so ago.

Holy Private Info, Batman!

Can you believe this?! And they wonder why Identity theft is on the rise. How much personal data is already floating around on the Internet that we need to have our banks doing crap like this? I sincerely hope that someone was fired for this. What would have happened if someone who knew how to use this stuff picked it up? Hundreds of names, social security numbers and accounts? They would have been set for life and could have easily gotten credit cards, new accounts, loans, etc.