http://itsablogeatblogworld.com Just a blog about nothing. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:23:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This topic has been addressed within the circles of my friends for decades now. Today I bring it up, since my sister sent me a clearly Right wing you tube video about how the Obama Admin is the cause of all that is wrong today. I wouldn't mind a logical ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2010/06/when-the-right-wrong-wing-finds-me-on-the-web-a-web-of-lies-that-is/ Image via Wikipedia When I first used the Internet, I did not think that some day some dweeby, data mining people would track me like a dog online. They would create a dossier of every morsel of information they could find, which would eventually pigeon hole me in ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2010/03/my-so-called-internet-life-keeping-your-personal-info-private/ Image via CrunchBase You know, I imagine any powerful entity that has come into power did so in small, incremental ways. I mean Napoleon had to get through each country to build his empire, right? What seems to be important are the gatekeepers (or just paranoid individuals like myself) that point ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2010/03/you%e2%80%99ve-been-googlitized/ Image via Wikipedia I can’t help but talk in metaphors that involve Star Wars. As a Mom of boys, this epic plays out in my house nearly daily. I have to say I was not a Star Wars fan initially. I am and will always be a Star ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2010/03/find-your-yoda/ Image via Wikipedia You know it seems like a simple task to find a famous person’s Facebook page and just become a friend or fan or whatever. Unfortunately, there are all these bottom feeders that just post up a site that has virtually nothing to do with the ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2010/02/seo-hell-will-the-real-search-engine-page-please-stand-up/ Microsoft's Gordon Bell has now converted his brain into digital-memory, or e-memory. The 75-year-old researcher carries around recorders to capture his conversations and all his experiences into 350 gigs of biological memory. It's part of a project that Microsoft is working on called the SenseCam that a person would wear ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2009/09/from-baltimore-spencer-memories-are-now-forever/ Yes - I know the title is so 1999; but, hey, "I've seen better days / I've been the star of many plays." I recently came upon a news story that on its surface is shocking, but in its root: less than so because we are talking, after all, about Phoenix, ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2009/09/from-baltimore-spencer-the-city-of-phoenix-newest-honornot/ I just had the best laugh when I went on Facebook this morning. I know people talk about how FB is evil or what not, but once in a while you read something that just makes you laugh and perhaps gives life's issues a little perspective. I think the overall ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2009/08/a-dark-sense-of-humor-helps-with-grieving-and-lifes-rough-patches/ Cover of Sixteen Candles It's weird how someone's passing that you don't even know can leave you thinking about that person for quite sometime, a real impact, if you will. This is how I felt hearing the news of John Hughes' sudden passing. I know he was not making movies now, ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2009/08/john-hughes-wrote-the-manifesto-for-my-generation-on-film/ You may see many things on the golf course ... but a llama and a llama that is caddying??!! Yes - it's come to that in our country. For the past couple of months, club pro Brian Lautenschlager and Great Smoky Mountains Greenskeepers Inc. owner Mark English at Sherwood Forest ... http://itsablogeatblogworld.com/2009/07/yes-that-is-a-llama-on-the-golf-course-and-yes-it-is-caddying/