Finding old contacts is just one of the many reasons I love the Internet. I was looking up some of my old bosses from when I was in the USAF and using the Internet to find people makes life so much easier than it was back in the 80s & early 90s.

Turns out one of my old bosses retired in Hawaii as a 3 star general and the other is now one of the directors at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Although I took a left turn after about 12 years in the USAF and jumped on the dot com bubble, sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if I stayed in for the whole shot. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret the decision I made, sometimes you ‘just wonder’ about things. Being able to do what I love, live where I want, schedule time off with my boss (me) is a nice thing.

I think what I miss most about my prior experiences in the military was working with some very interesting people in some very interesting places. The deployments to different parts of the world to be a ‘part of history’ instead of a spectator was also quite a rush.

Anyways, here’s some useful tools for those of you wanting to find old contacts.

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This post is for the SEOs, word geeks and other webrepreneurs that find their way here.

http://www.ldc.upenn.edu

” This data set, contributed by Google Inc., contains English word n-grams and their observed frequency counts. The length of the n-grams ranges from unigrams (single words) to five-grams. We expect this data will be useful for statistical language modeling, e.g., for machine translation or speech recognition, as well as for other uses.“

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Apparently I missed the Internet’s Birthday 2 days ago on August 6th. I stumbled upon this article just today and thought I’d share with the class.

On that day in 1991 some computer code was put on alt.hypertext discussion group so that others could download and play with it. After reading that I wondered if this was also the birthday of the opensource movement?

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the read.

*** Update:� Apparently, as with trying to discern the actual date of Jesus’ birthday, so enters confusion to the exact date of the Internet’s birth.� While doing some research on general industry background information on domain names, I stumbled upon this article at UCLA that dates the origins of the Internet back to 1969.� I’d heard reference to ARPA net from programming classes back in the early 80s and while I was in the military but this is the first time I actually read specifically about the exact history and origin.

It’s another interesting read and also gives a clue to the origins of a fairly common greating amoungst techies “lo” .

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Is there a connection?

Maybe, maybe not. The one string that ties Shoemoney, 666 and Fried Green al-Qaedas is that I felt like blogging on all three topics on this amazing spring day - Tuesday, June 6th, 2006.

Shoemoney has his debut radio show on an old friend of mine’s site; webmasterradio.fm. Daron & his wife Brandy own and run webmasterradio and the latest addition to their lineup is the Net Income show hosted by the one and only Shoemoney.

The connection to 666 is that it airs today at 3pm PST.

The Fried Green al-Qaedas connection is that I found that blog today and thought it has some pretty amusing posts and wanted to share with the class.

Have a great rest of the day! I’m off to go work up some Net Income myself.
- Sean

Technorati Tags: money, seo, search engines, internet marketing, humor, blogs

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Looks like Youtube has a humorous ‘down for maintenance or upgrades’ type of messages on thier website tonight. It’s drumming up a lot of “Youtube Got Hacked” threads on message boards, and across the interwebs.

If you don’t know who or what youtube is I’ll need to unearth your head from the sand. They’re one of the biggest, fastest growing traffic monsters online.

Anyways, I’ll get more into how to mess with them later on this blog. Right now it’s late but I just wanted to test something out and toss a post up.

Technorati Tags: youtube, video sharing, viral marketing, hacked, hoax

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I’ve taken a few months away from the thought of developing this blog as I had to wrap up a sale of a domain for a rather nice figure, have about half a dozen projects in the water, etc…

Sounds like a lot of excuses? You’re right, it is just that. I do more typing and communicating via email, phone and IM than I’ve ever done in the past and I love it. So I figured, hey I’m a glutten for punishment, why not get back onto this blog and start cranking.

Today’s post is dedicated to something I recently read at SaveTheInternet.com that I thought is clearly worth talking about. I’ve chatted a bit about it on the front of the site so I won’t repeat it verbatim. The bottom line is that there are some lobbiests in congress that want to control what you see on the Internet.

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