A sure sign of big business corrupting politics are those people who stand outside of stores and try to get you to sign petitions. Most of them are PAID!

My husband asked one yesterday if he was paid, and he said yes, and then tried to defend himself by saying that "everyone does it." That is not an excuse. If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you also?

If someone doesn't feel strongly enough about a petition to stand outside and get signatures from the public, then that petition doesn't deserve to be on the ballot!

My web site must be showing up in the search engines, due to the amount of spam it is generating. Someone from India just e-mailed me looking for a job in SEO work!

I am still working on my search engine submission expose. Hint: if a company claims to submit your site to over 20,000 search engines, don't do it. There aren't 20,000 or even 5,000 such sites out there. They are probably submitting to 1) FFA sites which are a waste of time, or 2) submitting to geo-specific search engines that will reject your site out of hand.

The search engine HotBot is gone. Terra Lycos that owns it says it will return in summer, but it is unknown if it will still allow free URL submission. It will probably not, and will be included as part of Lycos' paid inclusion program.

I never realized that you can make a political statement with a search engine site. I have been examining several Middle East directories and search engines, and they ALL leave out Israel as a country. Two or three have Palestine, but not even a wave of the hand to Israel. Amazing!

Middle East Directory
Arab Sites

Looksmart has just bought Wisenut to the tune of $9.25 million. Pretty good for a search engine that just started out last August.

I am seeing a rather nasty trend here. Looks like some search engines are trying to monopolize the web.

Right after 9/11, people around San Diego were driving badly as though they were completely distracted (which they probably were. Getting on the freeways was hell because no one saw you.

As the country started to unite, flags flying, driving conditions got better. People were polite to each other on the road, and obeyed the basic laws. There were still those who couldn't figure out that a red light meant stop, but they will always be with us.

Now, six months after the event, I have noticed that road rage is increasing. Horns are honked for no reason at all and constantly, people are cutting off each other, trucks merge without looking. Perhaps it is the state of the economy? Or something else?