Spock - Evil Spock Image credit: Photo by Dave Friedel on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons I was going to write this post about Facebook. And Privacy. And Privacy's evil twin, Secrecy. And how when we say Privacy, we often really mean Secrecy. Because not only do well-intentioned but befuddled people confuse the two, but [...]
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Are Bloggers Like Me Crazy?
Image credit: Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I hate that you don't have a blog," said a woman about to undergo heart surgery, as she gazed sincerely up at her boyfriend, "I hate that I don't know what you're thinking." Mark and I burst into raucous laughter and had [...]
Replay
Image credit: Photo by Great Beyond on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Earlier this year, I read an article about technology that would allow us to record and store every moment of our lives. Imagine: our whole lives stored in a single searchable archive. We could settle those arguments with the boss by replaying what [...]
I Miss You, Blog
Image credit: Photo by doug88888 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Summers are hard. Enjoyable, yes, but also draining. My kids like routine and predictability, and frankly, so do I. In the summer, there can be routines, but they're different from the rest of the year, and they change more frequently. The whole world seems [...]
What I’m About
Image credit: Photo by premasagar on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons Mary Ann did this little exercise on her blog a while back, and it looked like fun. You are supposed to list what you are about without stopping to think about it. Since the kids are on break, and I don't have time to [...]
10 Random Things about Mama Me, Ah…
Image credit: Photo by Lattenwald on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My friend Mama over at The Elmo Wallpaper riffed on the Facebook "25 Random Things" meme and started her own "10 Things" meme. She did 10 random things about herself as a mama, and while I think she'd be happy with any 10 things, [...]
Five Questions from the Maven
The Maven (and believe me, if you don't know the Maven, you should) was playing the interview game on her blog. I know I've done some variation of this like 5000 times in the past year, but it's always fun, and in this case, it got the Maven to e-mail me some words she handpicked [...]
Haiku Answers for Scribbling-Mum
Mum is curious, "Do you let your husband read your blog?" she asks me. My husband is weird. He loves my blog but hasn't actually read it. I do summarize. Sometimes I read posts to him. I can not not share. "Does HE blog/journal?" No, he finds blogs triggering. He has a journal. Last, "Do [...]
Mark your Calendars and Chat with Me
Have you ever wondered what I look like, how my voice sounds or what my real name is? I bet you have. Well, unfortunately, you're not going to find out any of those things. However, have you ever wondered how fast I type or what kinds of things I would write if I were doing [...]
What’s in a Name?
Recently I asked you all to ask me questions -- and here's the second installment of answers. (The first was answering marta and Shawn's questions about John Edwards.) Cat asked: "If you could have named yourself any name - when you were younger (first name) what would it have been?" I actually would have named [...]
