Another mother completely amazed that photos she posted for the public to see were taken and used by someone.

I don’t understand these people who put photos up on publicly accessible websites and are upset when people use them. Not even a personal website (which is just as public), this lady posted them on Flickr which is a publicly browsable photo album.

Folks, morally the internet is like the bathroom at a bar. If you wouldn’t post pics of your kids for the world to see in the men’s room at the Go-Go-Palooza Club, then don’t post them on the ‘net. It’s that simple. We see parents posting pics of their kids, with names and birthdates in their forum signatures, pictures of their house with addresses visible and full descriptions about the area of town they live in, and we just shake our heads. How simple to convince a child to get into your car when you know so many details about them!

Wonderfulpages easy rule is this: No names, no faces. Someone might be able to connect stuff we say back to google and figure out who we are with a little effort, but we’re not going to make it too easy.

… finally having enough clamps.

Lee Valley has a sale on boxes of 10 clamps, and I broke down and bought some.

I can’t believe how much easier it is to do basic tasks when you have the equipment for it. It took me less than an hour to put this crate together, from first cut to dry glue. That would have been a multi-day job with the 2 too-small bar clamps I previously owned. This is a storage box / bench seat for the Living History weekend camp coming up. I’ll cover the nailgun holes with some putty and paint, and we’re good to go.