I’m not an especially organised soul. That’s not a confession. Confession implies guilt, and I don’t feel the least bit guilty about it. For years now (perhaps millennia?) we’ve been urged — oftentimes with near religious fervour — to get organised, to be more organised. Proponents and proselytisers of the be more organised movement would have us believe that being more organised somehow makes us better people; makes us more fulfilled, happier, even.
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In praise of chaos
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FarceBook
I’m finally leaving FaceBook. My account is queued for deletion on March 3. Why they can’t just delete it immediately, I have no idea.
A recent change to FaceBook’s TOS (Terms of Service) was the final straw. I’m not going to rehash it all here. It has been documented in numerous other places. I think The Consumerist was the first to pick up on it, and then, once Mashable got hold of it, everyone was talking about it. For the benefit of the three people left in the world who haven’t heard the story, basically the new TOS means that FaceBook owns your content, and that it can do whatsoever it pleases with it — it can (as the owner) even sell your content to third parties.
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A post in search of a title
Here you will find neither lucid prose nor ingenious rhetoric. It’s simply a place where I can put some of my thoughts on paper(ish).
This blog of sorts is probably not worth subscribing to, as I will no doubt post infrequently. Anyway, I now have a little corner of my own in which to express me, myself and I. I’m not the ranting sort, but then we all have our buttons. When my button or buttons are pressed, then I’ll post something here.
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