travel thots

As I sit here in the Sacramento AMTRAK station typing away on my bloggy thing, I was reminded as I signed in to the free Wi-Fi, that all my inputs to the interwebs "could be visible to others". As I bounced around the various sites, mainly finding out I missed the Texas Lotto by six numbers, I avoided typing in any passwords or other dangerous personal data.

Then again, who really cares what I have to say anyway? The tracking bot on this bloggy thing says that 47 people have found their way to my ramblings. As I figured out in my last rant, most of those are probably random blog surfers, looking for weird stuff. My stuff may be a little strange, but it hasn't been weird enough to elicit any feedback or comments. I am pretty sure as well, that no one is interested enough to "follow" my spewing of words out into the great uncleansed world wide web.

Now as the warning suggests, using the unsecured server does put me at risk if I choose to carelessly share data that should be secured. ORRRRR, someone just might be forced into reading this bloggy thing even before it gets published. What an unnerving thought.
But
Over the next few days, I will be using unsecured servers all over the great Northwest. And in some places, I won't be able to make any connection at all. Not that any of THAT matters, because the only folks even looking at this are either blog surfers or hackers of the AMTRAK WiFi. Neither of which are folks I'm especially concerned about.

Be@Peace

blog surfing

I just played a little with the "more blogs" button. I read a little bit in some of them. I didn't expect them to be private, because here they are on the interwebs.

One of the things I noticed was that a lot of the blogs have had no activity for some time. I wonder why. Was it lack of time? a lack of stuff to share? waning interest in becoming open to the world to see?

One other time I did the "NextBlog" thing, I got to see a bunch of blogs from Scandinavian countries where I was unable to decipher the language and they used some strange letters.

Today, the theme seemed to be folks having some sort of religious bent. Bible quotes were evident. And various references to god and prayers and such. I am developing some personal thoughts about these matters and may one day share them on this form of communication. I know no one will read any of it anyway, so I will probably write things that will offend everybody.

I had hoped some of the stuff I wrote last time would be picked up by the NSA or FBI or CIA or some other alphabet soup agency. No such luck. Either that or their views didn't register on the view count. How ever am I to get recognized and get AdSense to send me my million dollars?

More to come.

I hope.........

where I went to school is none of your business

As I venture onto all of these social media sites, I am asked a lot of questions. I am happy to give my name, and sometimes my hometown. But the they start asking all kinds of personal questions, such as my place of employment, where I went to school, and the school before that, and before that. Where have I lived? Where have I visited? Phone number, Email, Height, weight (like I'm gonna tell the truth on that one), cholesterol level, social security number, last movie I went to see, books I've read, people I've associated with.

Yes, I realize this is SOCIAL media. They say they only want to help me connect with others of similar interests. What they don't tell you is their mission statement as collectors of HUMINT: Human Intelligence. They are probably directly connected to NSA and are feeding them all the data you consider personal, but are willing to just throw out there on some sort of chat line or instant message conduit or facebook or BlogSpot or AOL instant chat.

All the people who know me, and who I want to know already have ways to contact me. I have no need to feed the American form of KGB or Taliban or whatever super secret organizations may be out there all my personal info.

So, I will tell them I was born in Riga, Latvia, and I went to school at the Sorbonne in Paris after graduating from Winesap High School in Bat Cave, North Carolina. I currently work as a spammer and a hacker for the New York Daily News and Pravda. My contacts include Jerry Jones, Eric Snowden (my greatest hero), Fidel Castro, the real, still alive Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jong Un, Michelle Obama, and her soulmate Vladimir Putin.

I will say I have travelled to China, Viet Nam, Moscow, Havana, Caracas, Munich, Cairo, and Lucerne.

Because I am forced to log into the IRS and Social Security sites, they have my address and SSAN as well as one of my Email addresses. (along with my current IP address).

Now all of the above is just a load of crap, but maybe, just maybe, putting all those trigger words together (oops, I forgot AL QAEDA) will make the NSA, FBI or whatever spy-on-Americans agency out there look at my blog. The more hits I get, the better chances I have of getting sponsors for the site. And that means money in my pocket.

See, the American dream of greed is not yet dead.

But I still won't tell you where I went to school!