http://www.marianhackett.com/blog From somewhere you'd rather be Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:35:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So it seems that Apple doesn't require email verification or even a secret question to be paired with the creation of an iTunes account. This is nasty. I never realised how nasty it could be until an unsuspecting Irishman decided that his email address was in fact, a mirror image of ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=140 Today I was made aware that my Facebook user data is being used beyond the bounds of Facebook for target advertising. This is highly disturbing. The ad was served from DeviantArt.com, as I was doing my daily browsing. I wasn't even logged in to Facebook at the time, so I am also ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=136 I've had enough of Facebook. Here's why: It was cold night here in Adelaide, so, naturally, I went to go and put my ugg boots (slippers) on. As I did so, I told my boyfriend I was going AFK to get warmer. 2 minutes later, I opened up facebook, and what did ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=124 I realise that my sporadic blogging behaviour sometimes leaves big gaps in information- like people not knowing where I am. I'm back in Adelaide :) Now before you jump to conclusions, yes things with David and I are going very well. I made the decision to temporarily leave Sweden, and my awesome ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=123 My new lean green fighting machine arrived a while ago. I took photos in anticipation of actually blogging about it, but in true Marian style got distracted by something shiny and totally forgot. So here's my recount! I couldn't wait for my ugly/cute green weird little laptop to arrive. Unfortuantely I missed out on the OLPC "green theme" party in Norway: http://howcome.gotdns.com/img/2008/05-07-olpc/ http://www.idg.no/video/article97675.ece http://www.digi.no/php/art.php?id=527841 So, we had our ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=113 Last Satruday there was a basketball tournament at the local gym. A few friends and I decided to enter a team with the sole purpose of not coming last. We were up against some stiff competition, but nothing I couldn't handle with my superior height advantage over the Swedes: It was ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=89 Hi-ho! That's right! I no longer sit on the couch all day playing Nintendo and surfing the Internet, and occasionally teaching! I now work at Opera Software as a test monkey. Not sure how much I can tell you about the job without first reading their blogging policy, but I can ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=86 Hi Kids! Well, I've been here a while now. Aside from wondering why it hasn't snowed yet, I've been keeping myself busy with lots and lots of stuff. Somehow I scored a job as a teacher at the International English School here, substituting their PE teacher who went on parternity leave. Having ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=85 Hot Chocolate #1, 11:30am Well here I am sitting in McDonalds in some random ski slope in Sweden. My aim for today is to not get kicked out of McDonalds, without buying any food. I don’t like McDonalds, but there isn’t anywhere else here that’s warm and nice enough to sit ... http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=80 Oh my god! David has finished his exams, so let's have some cake!  Let's also celebrate with some home made sushi!... and no Christmas would be complete without a gingerbread igloo- complete with penguins (to scale of course)   http://www.marianhackett.com/blog/?p=76