Gordon's Notes

In my mail this morning… During a machine transition I reinstalled Quicken 2015, so I at first thought we’d unwittingly enabled Quicken Mo...

It's been 3 years since the Google-Apple divorce , eight months since Google 1.0 died , and six months since I tried divorcing Google . ...

Krugman is famously dismissive about claims of structural aspects to underemployment (though years ago he wasn't as sure). DeLong, I thi...

We've come a long way baby. A year ago Nordstrom's began offering optional email receipts as "a convenient, environmentally f...

My Facebook stream has been telling me what my friends read and the movies they watch.  So far, nothing too surprising.  I'm tempted to...

I'll be in Santa Clara CA next week (2/27-3/2) attending the  Making Data Work: Strata 2012 - O'Reilly Conference . I believe this...

I visited my Google Profile today. It includes G+ posts, and more was public than I'd expected. There's no longer a way to disable t...

If you've ever used Facebook, log out of Facebook then try this search: site:facebook.com "your name" I don't share pu...

LinkedIn's home page always shows a few headlines that reference LinkedIn. This is what I saw this evening ... Yep, that about says i...

A marketing (legal spam) firm was hacked and a bunch of our "private" (hah!) information was stolen. We can now expect more person...

I own Minority Report. I need to watch it before it's entirely passe. For example,  Social Intelligence  is marketing employee behavio...

I've mentioned David Brin's prescient 1999 book,  The Transparent Society , a  few   times . In today's panopticon it's a pr...

My Google Account (Gmail and more) was hacked on 9/3/10 , a day before I wrote about the risks of online backup . I had a 99th percentile...

The geek world has been debating whether Google's Buzz debacle arose from incompetence or malevolence. Did Google think they were doing...

Google claims to be trying to fix the Buzz Problem , but they're refusing to reduce the link between a public Google Profile and any Buz...

I’ve clicked the link at the bottom of my Gmail account to discontinue Google Buzz . I was initially enthusiastic because of the value o...

My name is Legion ; for we are many many ( Mark 5-9 ) . I am father, brother, in-law, son, and spouse. I am coach. I am volunteer. I am ci...

Facebook has made changes to their privacy settings that have two major consequences. The first is that the default settings now share much...

This very brief Google Chromium blog posting gives a lovely view into modern secure system design ... Chromium Blog: Security in Depth: The...

I've been enjoying Facebook , though the iPhone client is overdue for an overhaul. My conclusions about what's interesting with FB a...