Google Buzz is a PITA. I am posting a couple of warnings to people here.

1) If you have a public google profile (which I do not), it is possible that all of your contacts will be exposed to the world. Here is an article more about the issue and what to do:

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2) If you use google reader, apparently Google Buzz sent an invitation to select people on your gmail contacts list requesting that you follow them. In my case, 2 of the entries on the list were from a friend who died last year, so thanks for dredging up bad memories, Google!

Here is a link to unfollow people who google asked to follow.

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Good to know that I have still no reason to release my grudge against Google.

and maybe someone else had that Excel file open in a system with a bigger monitor, and it's remembering the size it was last opened to.

That's exactly what happened.

I am having serious DRM problems with Napster. Although the very act of typing that made me realize one more troubleshooting step I could take. Hmm.

Fifty AG13 button batteries don't take up much space, do they?

I am looking at my recently delivered stash and they all fit on a 3x6 molded plastic tray.

Not bad for $3.80 including free shipping.

So Google Buzz is starting to look like a huge clusterfuck.

Starting?

I wish I could use VOIP on my EVDO modem. It looks like it's possible, but I can't figure out how.

I just had to do the world's most convoluted series of steps to fax something. It's ridiculous. I need, like, a week just to straighten out all my tech and get it working optimally. I need an IT department.

Apparently (reading the comments of the article Scola link), this Google Buzz has released the email addresses of anonymous sources of journalists and political dissidents. Wow Google. What a fuck up.

Here's a more comprehensive solution to keeping your stuff private and turning off Google Buzz.

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Liese, these guys did it: [link]