Google+ profile deleted for pseudonym. Please rectify or lose an advocate of your services.

Hello Mr or Mrs Google,


I'll call you that because you haven't listed your real name and seem to go out of your way to stop us from speaking to you without leaping through 25 hoops first.


I logged on to my Google+ account (https://plus.google.com/110891518917962586106) to find this,


"Your profile is suspended

After reviewing your profile, we determined that the name you provided violates our Community Standards.

If you believe that your profile has been suspended in error, please provide us with additional information via this form, and we will review your profile again."


I can think of other ways for you to talk to your customers when attempting to launch a new product and capture market share. In fact, I think all of them are much better than how you have treated me. I remember when your motto was "do no evil", what happened?


Anyway, I go by the pseudonym djarm67 or djarm sixtyseven (where numerics are not enabled). I have used these for years on various sites. As you would know Mr or Mrs Google, if you type djarm67 into yourself, you seem to heard of me almost 70,000 times so I'm clearly no stranger to you. Maybe you should invite me around for tea one night seeing as you know so much about me already.

Some of the sites you already know me from are



http://www.youtube.com/djarm67
http://www.facebook.com/djarm67
http://www.twitter.com/djarm67
http://www.blogtv.com/People/djarm67
http://djarm67.blogspot.com
http://djarm67.wordpress.com
http://www.stickam.com/djarm67



as well as around 50 forums and other sites.


I use this pseudonym for a reason. Actually, you have my gmail and YouTube accounts so you are already aware of at least some of the volume of threatening / offensive emails / messages I receive on a monthly basis. If I wish to use my real name, it is my decision. In reality, you really have no right to demand it. This is the internet. As much as you want to, you don't own it. Market share is fickle. It will go to where the customer has functionality "AND" feels valued. Whichever marketing bright spark thought up this strategy for the launch should be packing up their desk by now if you had any corporate sense. Unfortunately, once an organisation begins to reach monolithic proportions thence begins the growing chasm between the customer and the decision maker tasked with the goal of exploiting them. You begin to lose the illusion of care factor.



I have submitted a form. The ball is now in your court, rectify your mistake and reactivate my Google+ account.



Many Thanks

Your loving customer
djarm67



or as you call me 110891518917962586106

Book Review: Richard Dawkins The greatest show on Earth

Hi All,

I have uploaded my review of The Greatest Show on Earth to my YouTube channel. It is a 2 parter and I will be auctioning off my copy of the book this weekend on dprjones BlogTV charity drive. Hope you enjoy my review.

In "The Greatest Show on Earth The evidence for evolution", Richard Dawkins takes on creationists and intelligent design proponentsists whilst taking the reader on a detective trail of evidence to show why evolution through natural selection is a fact and a theory.

Part 1

Richard Dawkins The greatest show on Earth Part1

Part 2

Richard Dawkins The greatest show on Earth Part 2

The details of the charity auction for Medicines sans frontiers (Doctors without borders) is here,

Dprjones BlogTV room:http://www.blogtv.com/people/dprjones

The site at which you can make donations is:

http://www.firstgiving.com/dprjonesblogtv

http://www.justgiving.com/dprjonescharityblogtvshow/

Don't be intimidated by large donations,
simply donating what you can spare is appreciated; the small amounts make a big difference.

The website for Medicens Sans Frontiere ("MSF"):http://www.msf.org.uk/

In the US the charity (it is the same charity) is know as "Doctors without Borders":

http://doctorswithoutborders.org/

The msfuk youtube site is here:http://www.youtube.com/user/msfuk

The eBay auctions have started and will be added to as the show date approaches:

http://tinyurl.com/m2jb3e

DJ

Radio debate "Evolution": djarm67 vs Dr Steve Kumar

A couple of days ago, Mrs djarm67 was told that a local radio station was going to host a speaker who would confront the "New atheism" movement and evolution. I took the info on board and began listening to the station to get some more info, e.g. when and who. This proved to be a mildly irritating experience within itself as my musical tastes are stimulated far more easily by a combination of prog-rock and hybrids of grunge, psychedelia or various brands of metallic funk with at least a short term residence in the Phrygian mode. This exercise was made somewhat more pleasant with the lubrication of a blend of Hunter Valley Cabernet Merlot. Eventually, it was revealed that the event was to occur not just on the Sunday night but would utilise frequency modulation of the VHF electromagnetic spectrum.

The proponent gracing the airwaves at that time to "confront" this new atheism and evolution would be Dr Steve Kumar.

Heard of him?

Neither had I.

So began the extension of my love affair with all things online. I began to investigate the "who" behind the scheduled event. Who is this Dr? A Dr of what? Where did he get his doctorate? Was it legitimate or Hovindesque? I found many examples of duplicates of his bio (marketing brochure) which attested to an awesomeness clearly in excess of anything I could hope to muster. Finding out what he was a doctor of or where he got it proved difficult and I actually had to rely on his introduction on the radio programme itself to educate my ignorance that I would be dealing with a "Doctor of Philosophical Theology" if I chose to enter the field of battle. Here is Dr Steve Kumar

Dr Steve Kumar

I did find a reference which indicated he had received his doctorate from the same "California diploma mill" as disgraced NZ MP Bernie Ogilvy (who I believe claimed to possess a law degree from an institute which did not even have a law programme). A brochure promoting the "Eleventh annual European summer study session of the International Academy of apologetics, evangelism and human rights" lists Dr Kumar as "Faculty and Advisory" alongside a conspicuous William A Demski. Post-interaction with Dr Kumar, I found another reference which indicated that the institute in question is the "California Graduate School Of Theology" (a worthy member of the Wikipedia "List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning")

So here I was. An anonymous YouTuber with dreams of "League of Reason" blogging prowess about to confront some (apparently) world renowned Christian apologist who was a doctor no less. I had never been involved in a live radio debate previously. When responding to those on forums or my YouTube channel, I have the luxury of being able to research an answer prior to responding (a luxury not present in the heat of the battle which is talk back radio). I set up my tape recorder, turned on the radio and reached nervously for the phone. Here is the result. This debate is split across two YouTube videos. Please watch both as I am a blatant video view whore. Oops, I mean I think you will enjoy them both. I've included accompanying images and video footage which I hope you will find humourous.

Evolution debate: djarm67 vs Dr Steve Kumar Part 1

Evolution debate: djarm67 vs Dr Steve Kumar Part 2

In addition, for those who frequent PZ Myers blog; Pharangula, I have included a Cephalopod treat for you.

DJ