hello! yoshi

So TGIF, right? I’m so happy it’s the end of the work week. But what will happen this weekend? I guess for me, there could be a lot of sleeping going on, but I doubt it. I always try to sleep in, but I end up waking up earlier than I thought I would, only because I felt like I was wasting the day away. Sometimes I wonder why I waste so much time sleeping, when I could be doing something productive, but honestly, even if I was awake, what else would I be doing except wasting time playing with some movie quiz or something on Facebook. Talk about wasting time!

Today though, I had to wonder why people don’t listen. Like today, I went to KFC to get lunch, which is always a 2 piece thigh/drumstick combo. So I ordered a “number 2 with diet pepsi”. Did you just hear me? How could the girl at KFC mistake that for “medium diet pepsi”? How? Let me repeat that. “Number 2 with diet pepsi”. Say it out loud yourself. Does it sound like I just said “Medium diet pepsi”? WTF? So I got to the drive thru window and I told her, I wanted a number 2. (let’s just skip over the fact that it sounded like I needed to go to the bathroom and take a dump for a second.) She nodded like she was saying, “Ohhh, ok, that’s what I thought you said.” Which pissed me off more. Why don’t people listen?

Then there’s this stupid driver. We’re driving through a school zone. The light is flashing, that means kids are bound to be around, since school is letting out. This means you slow down to 20 mph. Nope. This guy is weaving through traffic passing everyone that’s going slow, acting like he couldn’t understand why everyone slowed down all of a sudden. He obviously has no kids and doesn’t care about kids, or he’s a kid himself. Ugh. Where’s a cop when you need one? I know the defense to this one too. “Yeah, but there’s no kids anywhere!” Yeah yeah, but did you know that kids are good at not being seen? You never know when a kid is going to jump out at you. It’s happened before. Fuckers.

So how’s your day?

Insomnic wrote an interesting article, It’s Easier To Hack You Than Your Computer, where he discusses the dangers of social engineering. If you’re not sure what that means, then by all means, Wikipedia has an article on it.

He raises a good point, and I just also want to touch on how much harm can happen if someone has too much information about you. One of my friend’s identity was stolen, and luckily enough she was able to stop a lot of the damage from happening, however, it was an ordeal. Companies are wary when you try to tell them that you’re not the one who bought so many computers. It’s crazy.

And let’s not forget the young girl who committed suicide because of “cybr-bullying”.

I digress from Insomnic’s original point however.

What it comes down to is the Internet is not quite as safe as it was before (if it was ever safe). Be careful with what you do online, and what you divulge. Remember, someone just might be watching you.

So, as promised (wait did I promise to do this?), I am bulleting a list of plugins that I simply can’t live without for Wordpress. I’ll put that at the end of the post, so please feel free to read on or just simply click the link to continue reading.

So I’ve been obsessing with Facebook lately. It would seem that I’ve actually got quite a few good friends in there. What’s even better, is that I finally caught up with a very good friend of which I had lost touch with a couple years ago. I’ll just go right ahead and pimp her site. Take a visit, say hello, tell her Yoshi sent you. But I digress.

Facebook is pretty cool. While I normally do detest those social networking sites like say… Myspace, I still hang out and stuff, because I like to keep up with the Jones’ and stay up to date on what’s cool and what’s not so cool. I try. But facebook has some pretty cool things in there like Applications that let you send your friends a round of drinks, play trivia games, and even a vampire application where you can bite your friends. Pretty Nifty, I think.

All in all, I think Facebook is just a good way to keep in touch with your friends. Pretty much like all social networking sites really. But I just really like Facebook. But I’ve been playing with that for a bit.
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