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Because I Can

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There is a hugely alarming report in the Guardian today about the iPhone. In a nutshell, the device keeps a record of everywhere it goes. The file is hidden and is synched to your computer. Assuming you are the one carrying the phone, it becomes very easy to find out everyplace you’ve been once someone wanting to know your history gains access to your phone or your computer.
That’s bad enough but here’s what’s worse: Apple doesn’t seem to be collecting the data since the researchers found that the file doesn’t “phone home” or get otherwise used in the synching process.  Which raises the obvious question. Continue reading

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Take A Pill

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We’re a culture that likes to take pills. Not necessarily as some form of recreation but as a fix for what ails us. I dont know what your experience has been with healthcare but most of the doctors I’ve had over the years tend to want to prescribe you a drug rather than dig down into the causes of something and discuss nutrition and lifestyle changes as a fix. That way takes time. Pills don’t. Do you think business is any different? Continue reading

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Everything’s Different

I’m sure you pay attention to one sort of social stream or another.  Maybe it’s a Facebook news feed; maybe a list of friends or business contacts on Twitter.  I do, and what’s interesting to me is that often the age differences between some of the folks I follow come to the fore in a not very subtile way.  This happened the other day when the internet service went out in someone’s building and they wailed about not being able to get anything done.  I’m paraphrasing here but there was a shout out to us oldsters asking “how the hell did you get anything done without technology.”  Damn good question – thanks for asking. Continue reading

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