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Our home is on the market! Liz Sheffield at Barker Realty is listing it: MLS#140545.

I created a micro-site for the house with more details than on the Barker Real Estate site. You can get to it via: http://www.74CalleEncanto.com/

And for those of you who are interested in technology: It took about 2 hrs to create the site in Flex Builder 2.0. Most of the time was spent on formatting the photos. Liz added all the captions to the photos and the description of the property.

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By now you’ve probably heard about AOL’s major screw-up where they released 20 million web search logs for roughly 650,000 of their users. While there was no information in the logs that would allow you to identify a person (username, SSN, etc.), it’s easy to correlate searches of users and put the puzzle pieces together to be able to identify somebody just based on what they are searching for.

Today the New York Times reports that Thelma Arnold is the first person that they uniquely identified by just following what this anonymous user searched for.

Needless to say that AOL is on the hot seat for this major faux-pas.

I’m just scared knowing that the same thing is happening at all other search engines. And while their data has not been released yet, I’m certain that all of them are working feverishly on applications that allow them to collect more and more information about individuals who use their search services. The first outcome will be more targeted advertising, more ads that you’re more likely to click on. I don’t even want to think about what else could be done with that kind of information.

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Bat on the terrace

For months we saw bat droppings on the terrace close to the kitchen. Once it gets dark outside you can hear them flapping overhead, but rarely do you see one of them at night. They seem to like to hang on the wall in a dark corner. Why they pick exactly that corner is beyond me.
Anyway, this morning I was outside with the dogs and checked the results of last nights bat-pooping-session. To my surprise one of them decided not to go to a darker place but is still hanging out on the terrace. ISO 800 makes that photo a bit grainy.

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