Over the weekend while recovering from the Friday night festivities (Live bands and karoake competitions, don't ask!) I was browsing around some of the more interesting groups on Facebook and happened upon one that took my interest. The website is http://www.freerice.com/ and the basic idea is that you answer some questions, for each question you get right, some rice is donated to a third world country. It also tallies up how much rice you've managed to contribute too.
I think it's a fantastic idea and if enough people do it then the good things that come from it could be immense. So, here's me doing my little bit and putting it here for anyone to read. Please pass it on to as many people as possible and then all our little bits of help will tally up in to something much bigger.
One of the things that I mentioned about two months ago was around social networking sites and the access to information that people had on there. I make a point of not putting any pictures on there, no date of birth and definitely no contact details at all. Even putting status updates such as 'Mark is away on holiday for two weeks' could be translated into something completely different TO a thief such as 'Mark is away so please burgle his house!'
Sometimes putting less on social networking sites means that you get more out of them. The more things that are put in there the more risk you place yourself under. Read an article here - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7090096.stm
opps... practice what we preach - seems we have some guys on holiday at the moment too!
http://www.cob-blog.com/cobweb/2007/11/were-off-to-tec.html
But I know that Stephen's got a very large (and hungry) doberman at home so don't even think about it. Plus his telly is rubbish ;-)
Posted by: Dan Germain | November 12, 2007 at 05:47 PM