Jobseekers Beware: Some Employers Are Stepping Over The Line

The Internet has been all a flutter the last few days with the latest in privacy concerns made by job seekers, some of whom are being asked to provide their Facebook credentials as part of a background search. Given that Facebook has over 800 million active users, this could be quite impactful and far reaching if this practice becomes some kind of accepted norm within the business / HR market. Many employers already ask for your social security number so that they can run financial and criminal background checks on you and now, apparently, they want to know your most intimate personal information as well. Lawmakers are already getting involved at a federal and state level probing various agencies and businesses for more information on the practice of asking for usernames and passwords to social media sites. The obvious question brought by many is where does this stop? Is this even legal? Will your email account be the next target of employers? When will the camera and recording devices go up in your home so that your employer can watch and hear what you say at the dinner table?

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The "new" iPad: Review

On March 7th 2012, Apple announced a third iteration of their tablet powerhouse known as the iPad. Reportedly selling 3 million units on the first weekend, this "new" iPad will no doubt become the next standard by which all other tablets are measured. At first glance, the 3rd generation iPad looks identical to the iPad 2 released in 2011 but once you hit the power button and turn this thing on it leaves a much different impression. I pre-ordered the "new" iPad on the day it was announced and it arrived at my home on the 16th as promised. What I found inside the box was a well packaged slab of metal and glass that was about to blow my doors off. I decided to review the device highlighting the things I feel are most important to those looking to buy or upgrade to this new device.

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Moved to Squarespace

Have been eying Squarespace for a while now due mostly to testimonials from friends and TWiT.tv. Decided to move my blog here as I like the ease of updating from my iPad and simpler more straightforward management from my high maintenance Wordpress installation. So we'll see how it goes. I pointed my url to here and I'm just waiting for DNS to propogate. Hopefully within the next day or two the redirect will be in place.

One thing I'm excited about is that I'm heading for Hawaii on vacation next week and I have decided not to take my laptop with me. I'm going to try and use my iPad exclusively. I'm pretty confident that I can do it and I will be updating my blog with notes from this vacation as often as is practical. As always I make no guarantees when it comes to updating this blog. I will try though and hopefully it will work out nicely.

Here's to a fresh start for this blog!

UPDATE: Well, Squarespace... you've already disappointed me. A feature I intended to use, especially with my pending trip to Hawaii was the Foursquare check-in widget. This would have been really cool, had it worked. I sent in a support ticket and to your credit you responded nearly instantly. Unfortunately, the response saying we know about this problem and are working on it does not help me much. What is troubling is that you advertise the service as a "feature" and know that it doesn't actually work. Hmm... Leo Laporte is going to owe me some money I think...