That being said, I am reminded of an episode of one my most favorite comedy shows : MadTV. To be fair, I show both videos.

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(Fair warning: MadTV was a late-night show and featured adult themes, so it might not be appropriate for public consumption. Parents, watch it for yourself before you decide if your children can watch.)

Years ago, MadTV showed us their version:

WSJ is reporting that the “enemy” is intercepting live video feeds from US drone planes using a $26 off-the-shelf software.

First, this is really stupid. If the Iraqi’s figured this out - any teen geek can figure it out. And now that it has been splattered all over the news streams, you can bet the kids are already downloading pirated copies of the software. No need to shell out the cash.

I sincerely hope the US military is smarter than that. If not, we are ALL in trouble.

Consider the enemy…if you had your brain switched on, wouldn’t you allow them to believe they have intercepted live video? Is the US military so stupid as to use an unencrypted “live” feed to monitor military operations?

Once again, this sounds much more like media spewing this WAY out of proportion. I don’t claim to have military experience of any sort…but I’ve had enough of the over-dramatization of EVERYTHING!

If this were a serious threat, don’t you think we’d be seeing a press conference from the white house? The TV reports don’t even have any interview from a government official.

So, how serious is this “threat”?

Good grief.

There are two things online right now that just need to be FIXED.

First and foremost: Google, Puuhhhllllleeease find a way to tell when a page is outdated. PLEASE fix this!

OK, I’m still speaking directly to Google: I know how it works on your end with HTML and XML headers, but perhaps you can find *something* in your tool bag that can tag or otherwise mark DATED content on the internet. I understand, from an archival sense, that all the indexed data you have needs to be preserved.

But good grief!

Outdated information is considered by Google to be relevant. There should be some way to solve this problem.

As SEO “enthusiasts”, all we EVER hear from Google is “Relevance”. In fact, the Market Samaruai dude calls it the #1 Golden Rule of Keyword Research. If you want to rank in Google’s top ten, your content (and therefore your keyword research) must be relevant.

Cool, I like the idea of relevance. So - next time I type “best video format for online streaming” into Google’s search box….I DON’T want results from your search engine that are dated 2004! That’s FIVE years ago.

Streaming video is a relatively hot topic online as it is easier than ever to do these days - um, in 2009!  Wanting to know the best format for uploading your own videos is likely a question you might ask before doing so.

Contemplating the differences in streaming video between 2004 and now - oh I won’t even go there. So, basically Google, you delivered useless results - in the top 10 SERP.

(Still speaking to Google)

You’ve made huge advancements on real-time searching - what with all the social media explosions every second of every single day. PLEASE take some time to work on your archival methods and then make a clean sweep of anything in the top 100 results!

Ugh, I’ve been repeating this for years. Google is not a library - it’s a search engine!

FIX it!

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Ok, on to the second complaint because I haven’t already bitched enough, right?

Blog Comment SPAM - It is such a waste of time and I really don’t understand why anyone would pursue it.

Of course, now that I’ve said that…I’ll probably start getting a lot more.

Whew…decompressing. Now I’ll go delete 147 SPAM comments.

By nature - and, I mean I honestly came by this from my father - I am a piler. This I’ve known since I was a kid, and I always like it until now.

There is something efficient about being a piler, and then something really bad about being a piler.

The dictionary on my Mac doesn’t have a definition for “piler”, but an online dictionary defines it as: “one who places things in a pile”.

Well, I didn’t see that coming!

I was taught in elementary school (that’s ‘grade school’ for you modern types) that you can’t define a word with a form of that word. Yet, they were doing it back in 1913 according to a dictionary on the internet. But then in most dictonaries, I suppose that piler would be a modified version of ‘pile’ and wouldn’t have it’s own entry.

Ok, ANYway!

I pile everything. Papers, old documents, files on my computer, things to get to later, books. Well, I do pile them in cool barrister bookcases - more about books later! But I do, I pile nearly everything.

The efficiency of piles comes in the fact that I know exactly where everything is! No matter when, where, or how I need something - I can find it. I LIKE that!

I am discovering the consequences (the BAD) of being a piler. Life, responsibility, commitments and all that gets in the way of doing something about those piles. Until one day, you have to deal with the pile. And the pile is big, sometimes it takes a while to get through it.

Now that I am moving and will have no room for those piles, it’s an awesome tradeoff. I am SO ready to not be a piler. Being a non-piler in paradise is something I really look forward to!

So how about you? Are you a piler?

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I was trying to come up with a way to easily transfer my files from my PC to Mac when I thought MAYBE I might be able to network to the laptops via my wireless router.

I was NEVER able to connect two PCs with any consistency. THANKS Windows Vista for wasting so much of my time over the last two years.

I had a quick scan of how to network a windoze machine on your Mac, and Vi-Ol-A twice in one day!

It worked beautifully, perfectly - the first time I tried.

So nice to be using an intuitive, user-centric Mac again!

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That’s the sound of me relaxing.

She was a very special dog loved by a lot of people and she will be missed terribly.

I am deeply saddened and I miss her so much.

She was such a good dog, the best ever.

What do I love about my new Mac? Everything works. Everything is intuitive.
I am ALL about intuitive…and things working.

It’s amazing to me that I am using the same internet connection, the same wireless router, everything is the same except for the laptop.

I haven’t once lost my wireless connection. By now, the PC would have lost the connection, arrogantly alerted me that it once again made a connection, then sit back and pat itself on the back for a few minutes - until it lost the connection again. Rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

And something amazing happened, the battery lasted for more than 2 hours. Isn’t that the way a MOBILE computer should work? Now I can go places with my laptop and not worry about sitting close to an electrical outlet - IF I can find one. (Ever notice how they put them in corners and places that make you look VERY anti-social? Like a little geeky professor over in the corner, hunched over that dimly lit display, scheming on how he/she can take over in Facebook Mafia Wars using that over-heralded PC)

Haven’t tried it yet, but I might even come close to working an entire day without juicing up. I challenge ANYONE to show me that on a Windows laptop.

OK, so I’ve decided to change a couple of acronyms. You see, I can do that because I’ve been around the computing world long enough to know DOS (in my sleep), I know what “spaghetti code” is, I was once really good at creating graphics using ANSI codes, and I’ve come and gone (and back again) on the Mac trail.

In other words, well - I have no idea what that makes me - perhaps more geeky than I’d like. But what I’m really trying to say is…”I’m addicted to gambling”.

Anyway, what I’m really trying to say is that I’ve been computing long enough to know a thing or two about computers and computing. I had an IBM PCjr for goodness sake!

SO, everything is circular - baaaacck to the point.

My new acronyms: PC = “piece of crap” (yeah, see Microsoft didn’t even get the acronym right.)
MAC = “most awesome computer”.

Wow, I’m actually feeling creative and productive again now that I don’t have to wait 5 minutes for a command to be completed, restart because something simply flaked out, or manipulate my mail program to ignore la la land messages.

God is good.

2. Catch up on all your Facebook messages, photo comments and status updates.

3. Answer critical emails.

4. Move over, back to the PC for the time being.

5. play a little office golf.

6. Listen to some really cool tunes from the on-hold music.

7. Accidently transfer your own call to a different extension and then run to catch that line before Apple comes back to the phone. (No need to sweat, really)

8. Beg a non-existent human to pick up the phone.

9. Listen to the words of Bob Marley singing One Love, and take many slow deep breaths. Keep Belizing.

10. Write a quick and easy blog post on “10 things you can do while waiting on hold with Apple”.

By the way, you can apply this list to any phone call where you are on hold for more than an hour and a half.

HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN ABOUT ME???

TURNS OUT THEY HAD!