Kathy’s Tech Blog

I’d heard of this web site before, but I was recently prompted to revisit Zabasearch.com. This is a web site that culls thousands of public records in order to construct details about anyone you search for. Specifically, if I enter a person’s name, I can usually get a current or past address, perhaps a phone number, and sometimes an approximation of birth date (month and year). Scary, huh? I’m sure the people who run Zabasearch would say they’re doing nothing wrong, since they’re only searching records that are already publicly available. But the privacy implications are obvious. A web site such as this makes it much EASIER to find information that perhaps would not be so readily accessible, public or not.

They say the Internet is bringing people closer together… closer, indeed.

The standard desk clock is so humdrum, so uninspiring, so ordinary. Why not give your clock a human touch? Visit www.humanclock.com, where people worldwide have submitted photos of themselves representing a certain time of day. If that’s not an adequate explanation, just check it out. The web site gives you the option of having a little web window open that automatically reloads with the current time.

Eat your heart out, eHarmony! With new Google Romance, harness the power of the world’s most popular search engine to find the love of your life (or to find a new one, as the case may be). Never have search results been so satisfying.

(OK, so I’m a month late on this one…)