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At long last, I got back into my blog. This has been one of those seemingly unsolvable Internet fiascoes.

I was not able to get to work on my blog for several months, and when I go back, I am being asked for a gmail account. What Gmail account? I never had one. I try an unrequited 25 or so possible combinations all of which are not the right combination to unlock my access to my own blog.

I then go to google help files, which were no help and that I felt like a dog chasing their tale is probably underplaying what I experienced. Of course there is no way to contact a live person through email. I give up, but every month at least once try again, hoping the hand of God will zap my brain with a new combination, and today I hit the jackpot folks. So, for better or worse, here I am again folks.

I know that some of you will find the above amusing, and have similar experiences creating an Internet personae. Here is another amusing Internet tale.

I have these friends who question everything, but for some reason, if they find it on the Internet, it becomes the gospel of our times. I wonder how many of you have back tracked website addresses to their root to find a big surprise, at the end, about who was the source of what you were reading about.

I had one such interesting experience this week. Perhaps, some of you know the Stumble On It system, which is a browser attachment. The system allows you to pick topics to look at web sites about, by just clicking a button that randomly shows you a site related to one of your topics. Some of the things that come up are pictures often with no one to credit, so I save them to be part of my screensaver or other places for possible further use. Oftentimes, when possible, I go backwards on the address leaving off the ending after the / and come up with other pictures and the photographer--not always though.

So I come to the ABOVE cute photo, which I post here with the web address below. I suggest you go backward and see the other pictures and go further backwards to the root address to see where that gets you. This is a perfect example to look at who wants you to read what. If you are not a bit taken a back. I suggest that you look at some articles about who is editing things on Wikipedia and for what reason. All for now, but I will make a few posts to catch up a bit here. For me it is clear that, the message is not always innocent in its reasoning for the facts stated and can be just as dubious as something you come up with in the National Enquirer. So next time you want to quote from the Internet please remember the picture above.
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