Stallman is wrong
It’s a popular news in these days, Stallman doesn’t like cloud computing, he thinks it’s just a way to steal data from users. He’s clearly wrong, it’s a clear example on how fanatism (even for right causes like privacy, free software, etc.) can lead to a stupid war against something which is actually good.
Every web site hosted somewhere then should just close?
Shall I close my blog and put it on a server at home, with high encryption on every data?
Cmon Stallmann, the benefits of cloud computing are evident, and if you hate google or amazon ec2 you can buy cheap cloud power from other providers (like mosso for instance).
Some features are important…
Like…
As a user I want to fully delete my account from eventful so that I’m sure my details are safe
Unfortunately there’s no delete account functionality in eventful, in the FAQ they explain:
How do I cancel/delete my account? Unfortunately, we don’t have the functionality in place to delete or cancel accounts. You can unsubscribe from any emails you’re receiving, however. Currently, the best solution to this problem is to do the following yourself:
- Log in to Eventful.com and click on your username (upper right corner). This brings you to your profile page.
- Click on every event, performer, venue, group and calendar which you have created, joined, favorited, friended, or commented on.
- Delete comments, withdraw demands, events, performers, calendars, leave groups, and unfriend users.
- Go to your user’s preferences and change your email address to something unrecognizable
- Delete any saved locations inside your preferences as well.
- Remove any description or interests from your public profile section in the user’s preferences.
This lengthy process effectively removes any activity you’ve done throughout our system. There is still a small chance you may show up in certain situations, and your profile will still be accessable and visible.
If you would like, you can then re-join under a different username. (back to top)
That’s terrible!
We always say that is the customer that has to prioritize the stories to implement, this story is clearly important but from a user point of view, never underestimate this!
Micro Time Boxing as a Lean Tool?
I’ve started a month ago to draft a Mind Map about Time Boxing particularly related to Lean concepts with Staffan Nöteberg using Mind Meister, it has been fun, a sort of remote ping pong pair programming, pair thinking actually.
Now I’m very busy and far from Europe (I’m a trainer in the current ThoughtWorks University batch in India) and it’s getting more diffucult to follow this “project“.
I decided then to make this mind map public, putting the source online, any contribution, comment and question will be very much appreciated.
Micro Time Boxing Mind Map
A full generated, browsable export page is here.
If you’re not familiar with micro time boxing, some links:
The Staffan page about pomodoro in 5 minutes.
The original Pomodoro paper by Francesco Cirillo
My slides, from a ThoughtWorks awayday.