Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
One awkward fearture of this particular blogging tool is that the length of the message is actually limited -- I forget the exact number of charactters, but have exceeded it more than once. Sometimes I edit. Sometimes I discard. Now and then I just break the post into two pieces
This is just plain scary -- anyone's identity can be hacked if it is true. I recently had an uncomfortable thing happen to me when an email from some guy in Indonesia arrived in my Gmail account -- it seems that bela.dona@gmail.com worked as easily as my actual beladona@gmail.com addy and he had created a FaceBook page using that. I changed the passwords on that account immediately, and all my main passwords, so I hope that I got to it before anything happened. I was lucky that I was at the PC when the notice came over and could act right away.
Recently there has been a couple of "no excuses" comments made about public education. But does this just confirm that education, like healthcare, has become dependent on the class structure? PL Thomas thinks so. Me? I am not as convinced, I think it has more do to with a societal shift towards no longer respecting knowledge and education, placing an emphasis on vocational training. We no longer worry about our kids being able to think, we only worry about the job they will be able to get.
Star Trek continues.... we will will always "boldly go where no one has gone before"! I just wish I could afford to go back to Las Vegas again. That was a swell vacation even if I was alone