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Privacy Breach - Who Does What? PRIVACY BREACH – WHO DOES WHAT? It seems next to impossible to pass a day without hearing about “privacy breach” or “privacy incident” these days. Nurses in a Victoria hospital, for example, were caught snooping patient’s medical records just out of curiosity, and fired because of their unlawful activities. A health researcher lost his laptop in a café, where he came by to buy a coffee and a dou.. 더보기
So that each tomorrow finds me farther than today January - no raceFebruary 15 (Sun) - First Half-Marathon (Vancouver)March 22 (Sun) - Modo 8K Spring Run (Canada Running Series, Vancouver)April 11 (Sat) - April Fool's Half-Marathon at Sunshine Coast (Gibsons)May 3 (Sun) - BMO Vancouver Marathon (Vancouver)June 6 (Sat) - - Whistler Half-Marathon (Whistler); June 28 (Sun) ScotiaBank Half-Marathon (Vancouver)July - no raceAugust - no raceSeptember.. 더보기
Short Review: My Real Children by Jo Walton One of the best sci-fi novels I have read for a long time. I didn't initially have any thought about expressing my humble opinion about this superb novel, but I was forced to mainly because of the other reviewer who unjustly provided one star to this lovely novel. One star...how could this be? People tend to have different views and thoughts and feelings, I know. But still. If you have even an o.. 더보기
Kevin Runs the Big Sur International Marathon A short piece I contributed to a weekly newsletter in my office. Right after the marathon, with my best supporters. On April the 27th, Sunday, I ran the 29th Big Sur International Marathon. The Marathon, a 26.2 mile stretch along the edge of the Pacific Ocean from Big Sur to Carmel, California, is also known as “the most beautiful marathon in North America,” due to the spectacular ocean view wit.. 더보기
How to make sure you are not a HEATBLEED victim? Are you scared of the Heartbleed bug yet? It is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. It allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and t.. 더보기
Privacy - Dictionary.com's Word of the Year 2013 사내 주간 뉴스레터 'Internal Update'에 연재하는 '프라이버시 코너'에 실은 글. 내용은 TIME과 TheVerge.com의 기사를 참조함. Guess What Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year 2013? Can you summarize this year in a single word? Health? Happiness? Change? Surveillance?Dictionary.com, one of the most-visited online dictionary sites has chosen one unlike any other; e.g., “selfie” (self-portrait) by Oxford Dictionary, or “science” by Merriam-W.. 더보기
The Right to Privacy by E. Alderman & C. Kennedy Could any book dealing with heavy issues such as privacy be more interesting - sometimes even entertaining - than this? To read The Right to Privacy by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy has been an absolute joy ride throughout - not the issues therein but the "stories" displayed to illustrate a wide range of privacy issues. To describe the reading experience of this book as compelling, grippin.. 더보기
Valu-Mart vs. Sam's Foodline Wawa Guide: Valu-Mart vs. Sam's Foodline Sam's Foodline Closes | by Camilla White-Kirkpatrick (Algoma News Review / Jan 3, 2005) Wawa is once again left with only one grocery store as Sam's Foodline (Picture above) closed it's (sic) doors on Dec. 21. "High costs and low profits," said owner Sam Tremblay about shutting down after only 14 months in operation. Tramblay had been store director for L.. 더보기
O You Crazy, Barbaric Parents! (Jan-05-2004) It is uncomfortable to find an article dealing with what happens in my home country. It was particularly disturbing when I happened to read the egregious - unbelievable, in fact - story of a boom of tongue surgery in Korea this morning. Tongue surgery per se does not have any strange aspect in it. But if it has become a sort of 'fashion,' and if it has been solely for toddlers, particularly in K.. 더보기
LOTR: The Return of the King Jan-04-2004-Sun LOTR: Lord of the Rings is definitely our - my wife and myself - favorite movie of all time. We have seen first two installments over and over again. We simply love it. The myth, the story, the setting, the characters. Surely it is a great, if not the greatest, movie. Went to see the movie for the second time. For the first time, we watched the 3rd installment of the LOTR two weeks ago. At first.. 더보기