As I use a popular chat program to talk to my husband each day, I now have to contemplate if I really want to. Surely you've heard the stories? Government now able to know your every move on Skype, You Tube, Google mail, Yahoo mail, Verizon phone... Very few people are aware of this, but there is no document -- not one -- linking Adolf Hitler to the Holocaust. Why not? Because Hitler didn't need to sign a document ordering the ... Read More

I am frankly so sick of stories on top of stories showing this administration in cahoots with yet another major corporation or business. I'd rather blog about fun things, but these clowns posing as leaders won't let me. In an effort to open the eyes of the blind masses,  I guess I will keep trying to inform in my own little way. From World Net Daily Under a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, lawsuit, Judicial Watch learned through Department of Health ... Read More

According to the Washington Examiner, White House and Google are violating the lobbying pledge. Maybe a $150 billion company with 21,000 employees and 20 percent profit margins doesn't count as big business or a special interest if it talks about "changing the world from the bottom up, not from the top down," as President Obama put it. Maybe a millionaire who spends his days leaning on policymakers to benefit his company isn't a lobbyist if he calls himself ... Read More

As I ponder whether or not to get a new desktop (the one I have, an HP,  is over 8 years old and acting it's age, and I already have a laptop), I stumble upon this article: “Desktops dead in three years” A charming young buck by the name of John Herlihy of Google Europe believes, like most people in the Western World that desktop PCs will be dead in the next few years. However, he believes they’ll become ... Read More

Ok, I am a romantic. This is my favorite ad during the Super Bowl tonight. ... Read More

How do I know? Well the White House top economic adviser says so! Top economic adviser Larry Summers highlighted one Friday to make his case that the economic free-fall has ended. The number of people searching for the term “economic depression” on Google is down to normal levels, Summers said. And there you have it.The White House has googled it, and now it's official. I really do hope they rely on more than just google to make their case. So ignore all that unemployment, and the ... Read More

This should no longer surprise me, but it did: If you’re planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, prepare to clean up your Facebook page. As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city officials said. On the application, one can see the following: “Please list any and all, current personal or business Web sites, Web pages or ... Read More

Proposition 8, simply put,  was a California ballot proposition in the November 4, 2008, general election. It changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples and eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry. According to Wikipedia, with a 79% voter turnout, 52.30% voted yes, 47.70% voted no. The people voted to define marriage to be between a man and a woman. There has been some ugly happenings surrounding Prop 8, one was of a mob swarming an ... Read More

Google is considering taking its supercomputers on barges offshore. They would use wave power to cool and give electricity to their computers. Brilliant. Something tells me that isn't the only benefit though, as offshore would mean not paying propery taxes. Google isn't the only internet company looking for solutions and coming up with some odd locations for their data centers. The supercomputers housed in the data centres, which can be the size of football pitches, use massive amounts of electricity to ensure they do ... Read More

I rarely actually GO to Google.com. I have the google toolbar which allows me to do a search from whatever page I am on. What a delight when I went there today and saw google written out with Legos! Reminds me of the hours my children assembled legos creating all kinds of things from their imaginations. (they let me play too!)     ... Read More

War on Terrorism, War on Drugs...now the War on Child Porn. The fight against it seems to have one thread in common, the government wants us to give up our privacy in order to fight them. While trying to fight porn, all of the other search engines have complied with the government, giving over millions of search results in doing their part of the Bush administration's appeal regarding the Child Online Protection Act. Google has not. How much privacy are you ... Read More

Ever since someone persuaded me to get ICQ, chat programs has been a large part of my life on the net. Not only did I download and USE chat programs, I then combined them with my love of graphics, and SKINNED them! Now, after trying ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, Skype, Trillian, iChat, PowWow, Odigo, and MSN, now Google is getting into the act too! "Google Talk, Google's long-expected entry into the IM and VoIP market, has arrived. As predicted, Google Talk is a ... Read More