http://teggatz.com/blog This blog is to help me, an itinerant expatriate, stay in touch with family and close friends. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The electronic edition of the Wall Street Journal has as its headline a study about the personal data collection industry on the web. This should not be a surprise to most people, though I was surprised that Dictionary.com places the most tracking cookies on your computer. Why Dictionary.com? I'm not ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/31/privacy/ Bug and Vanessa have recovered but Yit-yit and me are still under the weather. We're going out tomorrow to belatedly celebrate Vanessa's birthday. Yit-yit's party is on Sunday. I read in the Wall Street Journal that the economic slowdown was the worst since the 1930s. I don't know what they base ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/30/worst-since-the-30s/ It's anniversary #1 today, our church wedding anniversary. As I have remarked previously, we are a bit unusual, in that we technically have 3 wedding anniversaries. #2 is Nov 8 when it happened in Manila city hall. #3 is Nov 9 when it is legally recorded as happening (I paid ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/28/anniversary-1/ Business Insider presents 22 statistics that prove that the US middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence. Disturbing, but not actually a surprise to anybody who reads the paper. I have not actually ever been a fan of globalization and free trade agreements, for my own political reasons ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/27/middle-class-extermination/ There's been some talk in Lifehacker and the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times for that matter, about perceived problems with Facebook security and privacy. Lifehacker ran an article about how Facebook is just a big pain in the arse which complicates your life. Now I don't pay too ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/24/facebook/ It's fondue night. We found real cheese in Rustan's and a bottle of Heinekin. This will be a tremendous improvement after fondue with NA San Miguel and processed cheese. I'm really excited because fondue is my favorite food. I have a drop of Swiss blood, you know. Yit-yit (Tristan) is at ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/21/fondue-night/ So this BP disaster in the Gulf appears to be capped, which is a relief, though I shudder to think about the long-term environmental damage. I don't see what all the hoop-la is about the iPhone 4's antenna. The iPhone G also has poor reception. I remarked about this a long ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/16/capped/ A typhoon skidded past Luzon island yesterday. Didn't directly hit Manila but winds were high. In the afternoon, Bug and I went swimming in the pool with the rain and wind blowing around. It was fun. Now, east Asians tend to think that rain will make you sick. They really ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/14/typhoon/ I'm going to talk about my new employer. I'm not going to say their name in order to evade a Google search. Anyway, for one thing, I'm being paid right now, which is one of the things that sealed the deal. Anyway I'm packing real light, in case the Talaban somehow ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/11/my-new-employer/ I lost a bunch of data back when I was in the UAE. Lost all my dissertation research, and the curriculum I wrote for Saudi community colleges. These are a bad data loss. Bad indeed. I had backed up on a hard drive but this failed. So anyway I subscribed ... http://teggatz.com/blog/2010/07/09/data-backup/