What happens to your Facebook account when you die?
When Facebook gets a notice that a member has died (it has to include a link to an obituary, news article or some other proof of death), it locks the profile so that only confirmed friends have access to it and can leave messages. Birthday notices are still sent out, and there is no indication placed on the profile that the person is deceased.
via On Facebook, the dead live on [Updated] | Technology | Los Angeles Times.
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In 2001, my wife and I were in the process of buying the house we currently live in now and we had a house inspector inspecting the house in order to complete the purchase. There’s not much that I remember from our house buying experience, but the thing I do remember is this: the house inspector was using an Apple Newton.
I tried to glance over his shoulder to see what he was marking down with his stylus. I never got a good look, but I remember thinking, “how cool”. The Newton is still beautiful to me and I’ve wanted to buy one from eBay for a long time now. One of these days…
It’s been a long time since I’ve written anything for michaeldoan.com. Some time during 2008, I let michaeldoan.com die and started to post to my Tumblr and Blogger accounts. The Blogger account was short-lived, but my Tumblr account lives on (kind of). Tumblr is being feed post via my Posterous account.
This is all very complicated, and it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is that I’ve been on the web – in some form – since 2001 and I still find it interesting.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this space yet, but it feels good to finally be home.
Small business loans are hard to come by these days because banks are being more cautious about their lending practices. When banks do loan money, they often require the borrow to meet many financial and non-financial covenants. One such covenant is a requirement for the borrower to have their financial statements either reviewed or audited by a certified public accountant (CPA) (either a sole-practitioner or a firm). This is a cost that many small business owners are either not aware of, or forget about, when they are calculating the cost of borrowing money.
Performing a monthly reconciliation of your general ledger accounts is hard, not because it is complex, but because it is so time consuming. As such, its a task that is often neglected. When auditors ask for an account reconciliation, they often get a print out of the general ledger detail from the accounting software. The general ledger detail does contain all the information affecting an account, but it often contains too much information (e.g., correcting entries, reversing entries, etc.) making it difficult to use for the both the accounting staff and auditor.
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