• Spent the weekend making a computer stop sending out spam. Rootkits are evil and the people who create them should be shot. #
• How’s it possible that The Simpsons has been on for 20 years? Seems like just yesterday that my elementary school was banning Bart t-shirts! #
• Very unhappy that a stupid football game made me miss the last 15 minutes of The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special. #
• @intuit created a watered down & seemingly useless new Mac version of @quicken? Just when we though they were done screwing Mac users! #
• RT @cnnbrk: “Google retaliates for attacks traced back to China, saying it will no longer filter search results there. – Way to go @Google! #
• Why can’t Comcast’s DVR warn me when it’s not going to record something because of a conflict? How hard would that be to program!?! #

• I finally posted my mom’s crocheted towel catalog online. She’s making them by the dozen. DM or e-mail if you want any. http://bit.ly/32PTIn #
• Just posted some stuff on @eBay for the first time in a while. OMG their fees have become outrageous! http://bit.ly/2QWAg8 #
• Almost caught up on the e-mail backlog. I’ve been really bad at that lately. Now time to finally finish writing my Christmas card letter! #
• So tired of seeing actors from the Twilight movie on every show I watch. Fast-forwarded though most of Jay Leno’s guests this week. #newmoon #
• Stores really need to train cashiers. Told cashier she hit wrong key. She got snotty & said she’s right. Then I was mischarged. Infuriating! #
• @google just indexed my last tweet & sent me an alert 5 minutes after I posted it. Very impressive! #
• RT @BrentSpiner: “Doesn’t it seem like Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame? … he got more hits than anyone.” – I agree #

• Celebrating the 4th a day late this year. Just filled the tiki torches. Making 2 kinds for sausage & burgers. Celebrating America with meat! #
• Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #photography #cooking #
• If you don’t follow @BrentSpiner, you should. Make sure you read his tweets from the past few days. Will he ever get of of that mirror? in reply to BrentSpiner #
• RT @google: “Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk are out of beta – yes, reallyhttp://bit.ly/Xl7OQ" – can it be true? LOL in reply to google #
• RT @kingsthings: “this has all been phenomenal but I hope the stories die down soon. let’s let him have some peace.” – Well said Larry! in reply to kingsthings #
• Watching Billy Mays tribute on Disc. Ch. So much more touching than Michael Jackson’s. I think the world lost a lot more in Billy than MJ. #

• Microsoft is advertising Bing on Google. Interesting… http://bit.ly/dTw9v #

We all know Microsoft is trying desperately to get some traction for their new Bing search engine. While looking for some images on Google, I just noticed that one of the avenues Microsoft is using is by buying adds on… wait for it… Google!

Click here to see the whole page.

• Happy Easter!!! – Enjoy an Easter game from Google… http://bit.ly/xaIkL #

Oh the humanity! Apparently the Google Maps car had a run in with a deer and the car won. In true Google fashion, the entire thing was indexed!

Check it out at Gizmodo.

Back “in the old days” when you were lost you’d stop at a gas station and ask the attendant for directions. Here in New Jersey we still have the luxury of having an attendant come to our car when we pull in, but in the rest of the states where they have self-serve gas, you’d be hard pressed to find an attendant. You swipe your card, pump your gas and go.

Luckily, getting lost isn’t much of a problem now that we have GPS, cell phones and Google Maps. But now things have gone full circle. If you leave home and forget to map your route first, you can pull into a gas station and ask the pump for directions thanks to an internet connection and Google Maps.

read more on Engadget | digg story

While looking for something using Google a few minutes ago, I stumbled upon a little Easter… errr… should I call it a Christmas Egg?

Do a search for “Christmas” or anything else that generates Christmas themed ads on the right side and you’ll see a row of Christmas trees along side your results.

Click here to see for yourself.

Following up on a post from about six months ago (see post here), Googgle has finally released a MAcintosh version of it’s very cool Google Earth software. It requires MacOS X 10.4 Tiger to run, so I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but kudos to Google for getting a Mac version out there.

Get it now at earth.google.com