Are you a Rotten Neighbor?
Remember WalkScore, the website that lets you determine whether a particular house is within walking distance of various neighborhood amenities? It’s designed to help you learn more about homes you may be considering purchasing.
Well, now you can run another diagnostic tool called RottenNeighbor - this one allows you to look up surrounding properties and find [...]
WalkScore: how walk-friendly is your neighborhood?
Found an interesting web tool today called WalkScore, where you can determine how walk-friendly any address is. I typed in my home address and got a walk-friendly score of just 34 out of 100. That means my neighborhood’s unfriendly to walkers because a variety of amenities are, according to the algorithm, too far away.
On one hand, [...]
Google your personal data: is your credit card number online?
Here’s a great post on basic personal web security from “blogologist” Alister Cameron. Cameron mentions that he recently found a text document online while doing a Google search that included credit card numbers, website log-in usernames and passwords, and other personal data that had obvioulsy been “hacked” and then posted online. He then gives some [...]
Follow the trail that follows you
Nick has become the victim of a company down-sizing - a situation which I certainly do hope evolves into a door opening rather than a door closing.
His post reminded me of something I wrote a few months ago about modern-day job-hunting. On another blog, I posted about the notion that your friends may not be the only [...]
*The trail that follows you
One more link back to Mike Sansone and then I’ll be quiet and let you discover him for yourself… today he put up some tips for graduates about establishing a personal brand. He asks the question, “If an employer Googled you, what would they find?” Well, this question isn’t just relevant to the grads themselves. [...]
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