It’s My Space and I’ll say what I want to

Internet privacy issues are a big concern and the reason for that is internet privacy laws are poor to non existant. Did you know that google keeps a record of every search? Did you know that google also keeps the IP address for that search. Did you kow that google keeps these internet searches forever?

All search engines keep the searches and most also keep the IP address where the search originated. Heh, google is now better than the govt at predicting flu outbreaks and that’s from search analysis. What else can google and the other search engines do with search analysis?

Did you know that law enforcement officials have access to the search information at google? Did you know that your searches can be used against you in court? Did you know that a psychologist could give a pretty thorough analysis of you just from your seaches?

Scary isn’t it? Lol, it’s worse than you know. Everyone screams about privacy from spammers but the real danger is from SE and the databases they have. We haven’t even discussed internet mail. Heh, I’ll bet you thought when you deleted your emails from google and other portals they were lost and gone forever. Heh, that’s a very, very false assumption. Your emails are also kept for a time. Sometimes a very long time.

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Give some gift wine baskets this year. I’m going to as I’m kind of lazy and gift baskets are even easier than most things. Lol, you can order them over the net and have them delivered just before Christmas.

I don’t know about you, but I am a real sucker when it comes to receiving food as a gift. I do not care what the occasion is, give me food. Food is one of those special gifts that mean something bigger than just another ‘thing’. Food puts together all the best in life. In addition, the best thing about giving food, is you can be a little more extravagant without being truly expensive.

Particularly in my business, wine gift baskets are the best gifts for all reasons. You can give wine gift baskets for any holiday or occasion as well as for special events. Wine gift baskets always fit in and no one, and I mean no one, will be disappointed you did not get them a new sweater or engraved pen instead.

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I see by the hunting forum at South Dakota Hunting that the geese and pheasant hunters are doing quite well this fall. I discovered something today while reading that hunting forum that SD has swan licenses, Now there’s something I’ve never hunted.

Every now and then I check out this site too as it’s related to the hunting forum but it’s not a forum, just a nice little hunting site woth some good articles on hunting. You can see it here at Hunting. Of course being a native of SW Minnesota I’m very familiar with Eastern SD hunting and fishing. Because the area I’m talking about is on one of the major snow and blue geese flyways goose hunting is always good.

The guys did say a litle ice is forming here and there but all of the larger lakes are still open and it seems, from reading the fishing forum, the big walleyes are biting quite well after dark. If you’ve ever wanted to go on a hunting fishing vacation next year you might want to consider going to South Dakota in the fall. You just can’t pick a better time for fish and game in SD.

If you are a newbie to ice fishing you might want to check out this site on fishing. It does have a section on ice fishing basics and a few tips and tricks if you are going ice fishing.

I see they had snow in SD the other day and that made me think of all the times I used to go fishing in the winter. The anticipation of the ice freezing was almost painful as it seemed to take forever for the ice to get thick enough to walk out on.

Of course like all water in the north the lakes eventually do freeze and the ice gets thick enough to put out an ice house and to drive on the ice. No big deal as it can be anywhere from 1 foot to 3 feet thick in SD and Southern MN where I fished. Even thicker if you go further north.

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Reality just keeps getting more unrealistic doesn’t it. What was reality yesterday is not reality today. What was science fiction 30 years ago is now reality today. Funny isn’t it how much things change and we don’t even realize it.

The Dick Tracy writst radio is now more than reality. Cell phones are real. Satellites were once considered an impossibility and now we can’t live without them. We went from one case of unreality to another case of unreality yet both cases are totally real.

Somedays it really gets confusing trying to figure out what’s real and what isn’t. Now, even things you can see don’t mean they are real. You can’t trust your eyes nor your ears anymore. This is going to sound a bit funny but TV isn’t even real anymore.

Say what? TV isn’t real? Lol, no, not that reality, the reality that all the backgrounds and charachtors were real people and real backgrounds. Now you can use a green screen and just have live actors that never leave the studio. Sanctuary on the SCiFi channel is not real at all, except for the actors. The rest is just played out on a green screen.

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