I have faith in integration, & @PhilTurpin ...

to the extent of cautious use of these Google products:


Alerts
Android
App Engine
Blogger
Bookmark
Buzz
Calendar
Checkout
Chrome Sync
Cloud Print
Contacts
Docs
Gmail
Google +1
Google Sync [MS Outlook & OE/WinMob/Nokia/SE]
Groups
Hotpot
iGoogle
Latitude
Maps
Mobile
News
Notebook
Picasa Web Albums
Places
Product Search
Profile
Reader
SideWiki
Sites
Social Circle & Content
Subscribed Links
Talk [text/video/audio]
Tasks
Voice [Gmail & US]
Wave
Web History
Youtube
[just about the only item I purposefully exclude is Desktop Search, as I find Copernic more stringent in its results].


Clearly there are privacy & Security considerations in surrendering this range of data to a commercial organisation in exchange for its services. I've taken the view that: given the sheer intensity of scrutiny of my personal information by public & private organisations, and how easily this is leaked [often simply resulting from lowest-priced tendering, leading to ramshackle under-staffed & under-policed service], my best defence is not in privacy or anonymity - it's in mundanity. My information has so little variance, it's so average, that it's of minor use beyond its role as an aggregate in mass consumer information.

Sure - my phone calls could be listened to, my location & practices tracked, and my credit card hacked; but I don't say anything particularly interesting, I don't go anywhere that unusual or in a flamboyant fashion, and I keep my credit card limit low.

Essentially, in my goldfish bowl I swim amongst a shoal of minnows; gambling that's it's the colourful, animated big fish that will capture the attention of predators.

The gag reflex ...

An acquaintance [ @Ltjgrice ] had an unfortunate inadvertant tooth swallowing tonight.

It's said that Jackie Kennedy's wealthy second husband [Aristotle Onassis] would humiliate her in company; by slurring her perceived idyllically-mannered history, in regaling his guests with the indiscretion "You see this woman here? She swallows anything I put before her.". This coarseness apparently being swallowed by his wife also.

*first ladies need money-ing too*

Lowest of the low ...

In Haiti, the aid agencies that have been howled at 24hrs/day by news media commentators - for insisting that a secure distribution infrastructure be in place before aid commences, to minimise chaotic criminality - have been proven correct as looters prey on their
fellow afflicted.

This is just one example of why reporters are held in such low esteem. For not only do they chatter at the point of tragedy, when any feeling individual would participate in attempting to ameliorate the situation, but any analysis expressed seems to shift with the sand - yet maintaining an illusionary pontification of being set in stone.

Popping something unpleasant in my mouth ...

Bought a packet of Rowntree's Fruit Jellies, expecting something like pastilles; and because "taking time out of an active life to enjoy a sweet treat".

Instead of fruit, I discovered pepper/nettle/spinach/carrot, but the only taste is this kids' sweet other ingredient of PIG FAT. How can pork gelatine be legitimate confectionery?

It's said that Britain has no heavy industry any longer. Yet it's churning out overweight children by the metric tonne. No wonder chavs have no taste, if the nearest they come to fruit is this Rowntree product. Mind you, it may be how they are weaned onto flavoured condoms by Social Services; after popping out a first couple of baby hoodies to get that Council flat.

*innit*