Merry Christmas!
// December 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Myself
Yes, it’s another one of those posts… 
Joking aside, have a good one and best wishes for 2010. You never know, I might post more frequently next year
Jordan
Archive for Myself
Facebook, privacy, and why they've got the wrong idea.
// December 10th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Myself, Technology
I’ve been a member on Facebook for a long while. I don’t use it addictively, but it’s been the private social networking place between me and my friends, where we can discuss things we wouldn’t be comfortable with doing if the rest of the world was watching. This is unlike Twitter, which has been my place to rant my thoughts to the rest of the world. It seems like this is about to change.
You’ve probably all been prompted by now to “review” your Facebook privacy settings in their latest update rolled out yesterday. In this dialog you’re nudged towards sharing select things with “Everyone”, but you can keep your current settings if you wish. Since I’d like to keep my private profile to stay how it was, I chose to stick to my existing settings and was on my way.
However, I’m the sort of person who (usually) knows what I’m doing with these sort of things. Already I’ve seen today people unaware they’ve accidentally published their entire profile, pictures and updates to the world, and in today’s all-encompassing digital age where nothing ever completely disappears from the internet, this is a very dangerous area. We’ve all heard of cases where people have posted insulting statuses about their boss, then realised they’re actually their friend. Now it doesn’t even take a friendship with the boss for him to see your incriminating statuses if you’re using Facebook’s “recommended” settings.
Even more infuriating is the now standard amounts of information which are shown on your profile to the public. I have no control over who sees my friends, my pages or even worse, the events I’m attending with the specific times and dates. Surely this stuff should be under the same controls as everything else?
It’s clear why Facebook are doing this – as already explained on various websites, they’ve struck a deal with Microsoft’s Bing search engine to provide public status updates to its searches. They are expected to do a similar deal with Google next year. To do this they’ve nudged their members to share all and covering it up by saying how much more streamlined it will be.
For me, Facebook was a private place I could chat with my friends, but if they can’t guarantee the privacy of my posts, events and profile, then I’ll think twice before posting that update or RSVPing to an event. I think they’ve got the complete wrong idea.
Jordan
Soo, 2 years eh?
// September 10th, 2009 // No Comments » // Myself
This blog has turned the grand old age of two. Well, two years is a long time I guess, but it’s flown by pretty quickly. Here’s to another good year of (occasional) ramblings about something not the least interesting, and goodness knows how many design changes
And I'm Back!
// June 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Events, Myself, Technology
After a little bit of downtime (you can blame some bloody Turkish hackers for that), my blog is back on new servers. Everything pretty much was salvaged but I wanted to move it somewhere where security might be a bit tighter so it’s now sitting on what is hopefully a rather secure VPS!
I am hoping to post more often on here now – I get so many ideas for posts and by the time I get round to writing them, I think to myself that the idea has probably been and gone, and that I’ve probably missed the boat with it. Maybe that won’t happen so much in future.
I would like to write more about some of the music I’ve been listening to recently as I’m quite a big fan of indie artists and move through different groups quite quickly. I’m also willing to take some suggestions of new bands to try!
Well it’s 1:30am now and I’m falling asleep. Before I go, just want to send some link-love over to Francis’ new blog – A General Repository. He’s jumped aboard the WordPress bandwagon now and I’m looking forward to reading some of his upcoming posts! Check it out at http://ageneralrepository.wordpress.com/
Jordan
Merry Christmas!
// December 24th, 2008 // No Comments » // Events, Myself
Merry Christmas from JordanH.net!
Have a great Christmas and a happy new year! Thanks for reading my blog this year and I hope I’ll keep it up (and maybe post a little more frequently) throughout the years to come.
How are you spending Christmas this year? Personally, I’ll be playing Guitar Hero: World Tour for most of tomorrow, and some CoD: WaW later on. Considering we seem to have bought FOUR turkeys this year (don’t ask me why!), we may be eating turkey all the way through 2009 too!
Have a great time,
Jordan
Halloween
// October 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // Myself
Well it’s the last day of the month, and quite evident by the number of trick o’ treaters calling round tonight that it’s Halloween. All over the web there have been sites celebrating the occasion, from Google to Twitter.
I’ve had a few ideas going around my head over the past day about redesigning my blog, but creating my own theme from scratch rather than using a WooTheme (even though they’re superb).
Tonight, I’m off out to see the new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace tonight, and I’m really looking forward to it. I think I’ve grown out of Halloween now…
Lifestreaming
// October 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Coding, Myself
Well, here’s my first attempt at lifestreaming. I coded it this evening in PHP and it pulls RSS feeds from twitter/flickr/my blog. I’ll be posting up a tutorial on JordanHatch.co.uk soon on how I did it.
There’s some styling I need to do with it, but other than that I think it’s pretty extendable. What do you think?
Television
// September 27th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // Myself, Technology
I’ve been waiting ages to get a High-Definition Television, and yesterday the wait was worth it! I went to Tesco and eventually decided on buying an LG 32in Television (32LG3000). I got it home, set it up in my room and I was stunned by the awesomeness of HD!
The picture quality is really good. It’s not 1080p, but it has a sharp, stunning picture and a 15000:1 contrast ratio. It’s got a brilliant backlight and the screen seems huge in my room!
I’ve got my Xbox 360 and my PS3 hooked up to it now, and I’m on my second attempt of downloading the new Burnout Paradise updates for PS3. I’ll be reviewing those later!
A year on…
// September 5th, 2008 // No Comments » // Myself
Well, JordanH.net turns the grand old age of one this week. It’s been a long year, many ups and downs and twists and turns along the way. But it’s still here (apologies for the downtime last week btw) and there’s nothing to suggest that it’s going anywhere soon!
Here’s to another great year!
London Calling…
// August 28th, 2008 // No Comments » // Myself, Places
Well the Super Lamb Bananas are gone, and although I’m a bit behind in uploading photos to Flickr, I’m already looking ahead to this weekend. I’m off to London.
I’m off early tomorrow, and we’ve booked into a Novotel. We’re going to see the sights, the London Eye, and I’ve booked a tour at BBC’s Television Centre. I’m hoping to be tweeting through my iPhone for the whole trip, something I did in Newcastle too (but that was when I still had the Viewty).
You’ll be able to follow my updates here and my locations here.
See you next week!
>Jordan