Facebook 101

Collected from recent FaceBook 101 updates of a friend of mine. Keep your personal drama problems off of Facebook. Do not write an ambiguous post just so the first commenter will have to ask, "What do you mean?" Learn how to use the privacy features of Facebook and DO NOT leave your profile open to the public. Do not post or comment if it will get you in trouble with your significant other; Offending others is OK, if you are really prepared for the backlash....

22 Dec 2010 · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink

What Crime Was Committed?

It appears that the politicians who are supposed to represent me are trying to convince me that a website, WikiLeaks, run primarily by a group of Australian citizens has, itself, done something illegal. I'm usually not one to go out of my way to question things my representatives are saying, but in this case, I feel I have to. Let me explore this a little bit (with the help of The Telegraph Timeline Reference)....

9 Dec 2010 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Christmas Time Is Nigh

Just a quick note to say a few minor things. I'm back from Bangalore.  I had a great trip.  Saw some cool things, met many cool people.  I will, eventually, get around to posting photos. Christmas time is nigh...

7 Dec 2010 · 1 min · Gary Allen Vollink

Quasimodo says, "The Horns, The Horns"

I'm on my second day where I feel relatively jet-lag free.  This is as good a time as any, to mention what is different about Traffic in Bangalore.  There seems to be a whole new (but not all new to my experience) rules for traffic navigation. Despite what the numerous signs and dotted lines suggest, lanes are defined by the width of the vehicles next to you right now. Traffic signal lights are suggestions, that you follow only so far as someone in the other direction is tired of waiting for a green and is willing to put the front of their vehicle in front of your movement....

11 Nov 2010 · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink