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Facebook has been caught in a smear campaign against Google. Apparently, a PR firm hired by FB has admitted that they've been persuading journalists to write negative things about Google's privacy practices. To my mind, Facebook has the worse track record, but the point is relatively moot. Both companies offer services for 'free', but free basically means you give up some of your privacy. Daily, marketers come up with cleverer, more-insidious methods of gaining trust while creeping slowly further into our homes, our offices and our families' lives.

A new 'James Bond' book is on sale entitled Devil May Care. It's set in the cold-war 1960's. Sebastian Faulks is said to have done an excellent job at catching the style and flavor of the original author, Ian Flemming.

There are a growing number of reasons why Charter Communications - my current ISP - is losing favor with myself. For what they offer, they are woefully overpriced. They offer a phone service that costs a little less than land-line phones, but they cannot provide consistent, uninterrupted cable or internet connection, so they cannot possibly provide reliable 911 service - yet they offer just such a service. Worse - they have begun posting their own 404 'advertisement/search screen' on my unused subdomains for all who view documents through their internet services.

Borders has been slowly introducing it's online beta bookstore as it divorces itself from a seven year online relationship with Amazon.com. The new online beta is here.

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