As I’m sure everyone is aware by now Barack Obama has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2008 Presidency. Obama is young, exciting, energetic. In short, I think he could be a great President. I see a few problems though. First, it’s going to be tough to beat Hillary Clinton in the primaries. She is more well-known and has a lot more financial backing I’m sure. The second, in case you haven’t noticed, Obama is African-American. Unfortunately there are still many people in this country who are not ready to see past their own bigotry and vote for someone no matter race, religion, gender, sexual preference, etc. Finally, Obama is not as experienced in national politics and people running against him, in the primaries and national election if he makes it that far, will be sure that the public knows that. I hope Obama wins the primary and becomes the Democratic candidate, and if he does, he will get my vote.
I’m going to start posting up some songs that I really like. Usually they will be from independent artists that can do with some exposure and I always like turning people on to new music. This first song is by a singer/rapper Big Krizz Kaliko and rapper Tech N9ne. But this isn’t rap music. This is their successful attempt at rock forming a group called Kabosh. If you’ve heard Kaliko in the past, you know he can sing opera, funk, r & b and now rock. He’s an amazing talent, and well, Tech N9ne has been one of my favorite rappers for many years now. This is a really good track. It was included as a bonus track on a Strange Music (record label) Sampler that came with Tech N9ne’s Everready: The Religion.
I came across this video about Google and it’s master plan. When you think about it, Google really does have control of a lot of information. They have my pictures in Picassa, my emails in Gmail and Google Apps for Domains, they have some papers I’ve written in Google Docs and Spreadsheets, they know who visits my websites via Analytics and what sites I visit if other websites use the service. They even know where I am on a given day via Google Calendar and could even track me down to an exact location via Google Earth and/or Google Maps. Recently they can even track my online purchases if I use Google Checkout. They pretty much have my entire life stored somewhere. Do I mind? It depends on what is done with this information. Obviously when I use Google services I know the risks and still continue to put it out there. This video makes you think though. Hat tip Google Inside
I have decided to start putting a small amount of ads on here just to help pay for hosting and whatnot. I know what some of you may think and remind me of my thoughts on ads on personal blogs, but this site generates a fair amount of traffic, more than my others that my ads do okay on, and by okay I mean at least I make a little something every day. And I don’t think they look too terrible here. The theme is nice enough that the ads blend in fairly nice. If I don’t really make anything from them then they shall disappear. We shall see.