Giovanna Di Sauro

There have been plenty of tech articles warning us of the dangers of posting information about us online – especially when it comes to naughty pictures and compromising comments. However, not many people know that there are special search engines out there whose aim is to scavenge all the information you have disseminated on the web, and put it together in one single place – for the pleasure of HR recruiters everywhere.

I was going through my usual morning news reading, and then something in the European news section of the BBC really tickled my interest: it is the story of a once successful French cardiologist who beat his alcohol dependence prescribing himself a muscle relaxant drug.

I refuse to use the word “recession”, as I am in Canada at the moment! However, as one of the major importers (if not the major) of Canadian products and services is the USA – therefore, their recession is starting to affect the Canadian economy, even though Canadian banks fared pretty well during the hot times of the financial meltdown. While working on another post and doing my usual news reading, I encountered some interesting news, and takes, about the current global crisis.

This is how I felt today while waiting for the bus in Vancouver…