On the local radio they were speaking about listeners who had meet a "Star", It remindered me about my Dad, who back in the 1960s was seated next to John Glen on a flight in the States and John Glen had signed a $20 dollar bill for him and they had their photo taken onboard the aircraft. This is what Wikipedia has to say about John Glen.
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American and third person to orbit the Earth. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered politics as a Democrat and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.
Glenn received a Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 and was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1998, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-95). Glenn and M. Scott Carpenter are the last surviving members of the Mercury Seven.
Gloomy news on the Health Front.
Simple went to the local hospital for his right knee and just happened to mention that he kept getting cramp in his calf. Now Dr J who knows a thing or two thought that the AMU ( acute medical unit ) should take a look at it. Well four hours later, one set of blood tests and a couple of xrays left them not quite sure but thinking it was perhaps a blood clot. Told to come back next morning and after an ultra-sound Simple was told it was a clot and that he will be taking Warfarin.
Oh and by the way he had to inject hinself twice each evening for about 10 days and have a blood test every three days. Now Simple is . . . well a simple sort of fellow, who feels that one needle is one too many, so nearly thirty was very bad news indeed. Inside every Simple guy there beats the heart of a small chicken !
My God, Where did the time go?
We all went to a wedding recently and in the photos there was a picture of my son, he is six foot six, smart and strong. It seems like only yesterday he was sitting on the end of the supermarket checkout looking cute. He does Tae Kwon-Do as a sport and has just got his blue belt.
Digital Death Day ( http://www.digitaldeathday.com/ )
Listening to the BBC world service article about what happens to your data when you die. It was very thought prevoking.
Article from www.thinq.co.uk , (Full rights acknowledged)
Experts in social networking, data management and bereavement last week called for sites such as Google, Facebook and MySpace to agree a common policy for dealing with users' data after their death.
The Digital Death Day meeting at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, brought together authors, lawyers, funeral directors and digital activists to discuss what should be done with the billions of pages of content held by social networks, blogging sites and online games after the users that created them have died.
"There's no standard practice across the industry yet," says Kaliya Hamlin, aka blogger Identity Woman. The organiser of Digital Death Day explained the thinking behind the conference in a report by BBC News: "There are no norms for how digital assets are passed on to heirs."
At present, policies vary widely between sites. MySpace provides no means by which heirs can 'inherit' a deceased user's page, while Facebook has enabled the creation of 'digital memorials', providing friends and family with administrative rights to manage tributes on the user's profile, but freezing the addition of new friends. Google has been notoriously difficult about handing over login details to Gmail accounts and other information to the families of the dead.
The lack of any clear guidance also raises some thorny legal issues over potentially valuable digital assets. Domain names can change hands for large amounts of money, and even Twitter accounts with large numbers of followers can attract high prices. Even virtual assets from online games can be valuable. A virtual space station that had become a popular destination in online game Project Entropia recently entered the Guinness Book of Records when it sold for $330,000.
One of the speakers at the conference, Jesse Davis, is co-founder of Entrustet, a US company that acts as an identity broker for social networking sites, and allows users to create wills for their digital assets. "There are two types of value stored in your online accounts," says Davis, "economic and sentimental... both types of assets need to be considered carefully in building a proper digital estate plan."
Digital death-obsessed blogger Evan Carroll, another attendee of the conference, provides a good summary of the day's discussions on his blog, The Digital Beyond.
Well thats all Folks
Simple of Sussex
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