A few days ago, I received a text from my mom. She had found a reference to her name online and was curious as to how to remove it because she didn’t want to suffer another go around with identity theft. I told her I would look into it and today I did just that. As she had found herself on google, I decided that was a good place to start (i’ll get to the other places that I have come across).

There are a ton of sites that aggregate personal information and then display it in a decent looking format. From google, I saw the link she was curious about and began there. It was a White Pages page containing everything about her, except for her social. Fortunately Whitepages made it easy to remove it by just clicking a remove button (which was hidden amongst offers to join their site). While on the white pages page, I noticed a link to MyLife. I decided to investigate that and boy, do they not make it easy to remove your information. I ended up sending a nice email to their privacy box (bet it goes straight to null, aka nowhere).

I have been fielding many requests for the story of how I proposed, so I will retell it on here so everyone can feast on the romanticism.

Back story-I asked her dad permission and brought both moms with me to pick out the ring.I already knew what she wanted, so it was mainly for them to hang out aka “mom talk”.

In starting out, I originally anticipated on new years eve or thereabouts, but wasn’t really sure of a date/time. I had anticipated going with the moms before x-mas and them telling me they wouldn’t be able to get the ring ready until after x-mas – “oh, it can be ready by tomorrow if you’d like”. Kel’s mom let me use her dad’s moms engagement ring (several generations old and pretty-I looked at it under the scope). That is when the pandemic of excitement started in my brain. This could happen soon…

I have posted the mod onto ebay. If you would like to visit the ebay page, please click here. If you don’t care to go visit the ebay listing, you can view a mirror of it below (sans auction goodies).

As recently seen on Engadget, Hackaday, Slashdot, Gizmodo and numerous other tech news websites, this Mod”book” (insert rimshot) is now up for auction. Featuring a 2 Ghz Intel Core Duo CPU, 1 GB RAM, and a 160 GB hard drive, this is an amazing machine for most things (sorry, Crysis). The machine contains everything that a standard Macbook of its generation would have, except for a Superdrive and obviously the Macbook case and LCD screen. As a bonus, the memory is upgraded from 512 MB and the hard drive is upgraded from 60 GB. The operating system that is currently installed is OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Details on the construction of the mod can be found at this page.

Sold as is, with the following:
- 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
- 1GB RAM (667 Mhz)
- 160 GB hard drive (7200 RPM)
- 802.11g/b Airport wifi
- Bluetooth
- iSight webcam built into the front
- Microphone built into the front
- Magsafe 60W power adapter
- Mini DVI to VGA adapter
-Protection from Steve Jobs’ wrath NOT included