Saturday, August 15, 2009




I found something odd on my laptop the other night. I was cleaning out doubles of image files and came across a folder of images that I didn't recognise and it was labeled oddly. The reason quickly became clear, I use a program called ialertu which locks your laptop and sets off an alarm if it is touched or moved or interfered with in any way. It also takes a photo with the isight camera the macbook and can be set up to forward that photo to an email address. Smart as a security feature and odd when it malfunctions. The malfunction is caused by that fact I do not use the Mail program on my mac usually, and haven't used it in months. So for the last few months my laptop has had a folder of images from where someone touched my laptop usually when it was on my desk in my rooms in Trinity. The malfunction also mean that the alarm wasn't being set off and I didn't notice. Essentially I discovered a set of images that I didn't know was being taken and neither did anyone else. The funniest ones are the ones where it isn't me in the image.

So it has an odd collection of images,mainly of me and some hilarious ones. Some thoughts turn to misuse of the funnier photos but to be frank the hilarity would be shortlived and the consequences fairly long term. The conundrum I face is now one of whether my usual standards of "if its funny-it is acceptable" can stand up to a promise I made. Once again I am rambling.

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