So surprised and pleased!

A little background, for the majority of non-WoW people on my flist: Blizz decided that everyone who posted on the official forums would have their real first and last name used. This would not be optional. (The stated goal was to cut down on trolling.) Understandable, nearly everyone was rather unhappy with that.

Today they changed their minds! I'm so very surprised and happy! I rarely post on the boards, only when there's a bug of some kind, but still!

I'm very, very careful to have "me" not show up on net searches, so the very idea of this made me twitch. (There are a number of doctors in Germany with the same first and last name as me, but it should be very clear to current and future employers that they're not me.)

So surprised and pleased!

A little background, for the majority of non-WoW people on my flist: Blizz decided that everyone who posted on the official forums would have their real first and last name used. This would not be optional. (The stated goal was to cut down on trolling.) Understandable, nearly everyone was rather unhappy with that.

Today they changed their minds! I'm so very surprised and happy! I rarely post on the boards, only when there's a bug of some kind, but still!

I'm very, very careful to have "me" not show up on net searches, so the very idea of this made me twitch. (There are a number of doctors in Germany with the same first and last name as me, but it should be very clear to current and future employers that they're not me.)

Inreresting correction on riots

I try not to rant in my LJ, though sometimes I get angry enough that I do. Anytime I'm wrong, but especially in ranty posts, I like to correct myself. Today, some interesting facts about last night's Oakland riots came out. 78 people were arrested. Of them:

19 Oakland residents
28 other Bay Area residents (Very large area, includes three big cities (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland.)
19 other California residents
12 out-of-state residents
(60 were men.)

Yeah, there were a lot more than 78 people there, but if those numbers were representative of the whole... (I suspect they might not be. The people who were arrested were likely the most aggressive towards the police. Still!)

What in the heck were the out-of-state'ers doing there?

Interesting stuff. Good to see that it wasn't totally the residents of the city trying to destroy the place they themselves live.

Inreresting correction on riots

I try not to rant in my LJ, though sometimes I get angry enough that I do. Anytime I'm wrong, but especially in ranty posts, I like to correct myself. Today, some interesting facts about last night's Oakland riots came out. 78 people were arrested. Of them:

19 Oakland residents
28 other Bay Area residents (Very large area, includes three big cities (San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland.)
19 other California residents
12 out-of-state residents
(60 were men.)

Yeah, there were a lot more than 78 people there, but if those numbers were representative of the whole... (I suspect they might not be. The people who were arrested were likely the most aggressive towards the police. Still!)

What in the heck were the out-of-state'ers doing there?

Interesting stuff. Good to see that it wasn't totally the residents of the city trying to destroy the place they themselves live.