Microsoft lets Everyone edit Everything

When sharing from Microsoft OneDrive, the image above is what it continually defaults to.

There is only one problem, "People in your organization with the link can edit."

Who thought this was a good idea?

The things that I share within my organization are typically shared with very specific people.

I do not want to share these things with the entire organization!

This needs changed.  It is hidden.  It is not obvious.  It creates the potential for disaster with personally identifiable information.

Why should I have to continually click that link to change it to "People I Specify?"

Random Retaliation

Today, I was informed that one of the people that I had recently attempted to collaborate with on a project had lodged a complaint that I was intimidating.

It seems a certain individual does not like people questioning her work, which I had done while investigating a process.  Fault had been found with the process, resulting in the loss of several thousand dollars for our firm.

The individual turned cold and uncooperative since that finding, with icy communications or outright refusal to produce information required for further research.

Apparently, I also asked her about partying in New Orleans, which I had never spoken about to her at all.  While conversing with her and another, we talked briefly about different food and things to do there, and nothing more.

This is all somewhat of a surprise, but then, not so much.  It is the nature of my role, recognized by the individual that told me all of this.  It is my job to ask lots of questions surrounding process and procedure.  

Apparently, I found a serious deficiency in process and procedure, and now, retaliation.

That's what I get.

West Chicago and Back

The latest collection of stories comes from a brief encounter with part of the west Chicago suburbs, to include East Dundee, Hoffman Estates, and Schaumburg.  No adventuring occurred beyond that, except on the return trip.

• Part 1:  East into Illinois and Wyoming. Wandering across the central plains of Missouri and Illinois
• Part 2:  Pancakes to Pizza - Loitering about northwestern Chicago suburbs
• Part 3:  Fiddlesticks from Norway - Wandering across the northwest Illinois

This is likely the last of this travelogue style of writing.  A recent journey out to the wasteland of Las Vegas set me to thinking that I need to change things up.  

Stay tuned for more ... 

Second Creek Wasteland

Destruction of one of the last remaining forested areas in the northern realm of Kansas City is well underway along Barry Road.  Trees have been mowed down, and bulldozers rumble through the day under the banner of "progress." The scene along this strip of roadway in the northland changes almost daily, at a near feverish pitch.

The forested area in the center of this map, just east of the lake is area under rapid and mostly thoughtless development. The upper boundary of this map is Barry Road.  About 6 square miles south of there is where the rape of land is most intense, though it is occurring at a much greater commercial extent north of there.  Deer and other wildlife are scattering to all surrounding areas, witnessed primarily in populations to the east of US-169.  

The irony of all of this is that most of the people that will use and move into this newly developed area would be appalled at similar levels of destruction in the rain forests.  That is easier to get offended about, I suppose, and does not get in the way of building that new McMansion.

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Further Reading (though mos

Clay County plans to develop multi-billion dollar project near I-435, Route 152 (kshb.com)

Crane Watch: What's being built in KC area - Kansas City Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

Proposed housing development in KC draws attention of Platte County citizens — The Platte County Citizen

Projects in Kansas City's Northland to see progress in 2023 (fox4kc.com)