Google, Spyware, and Burn Notice

Posted • December 30, 2008 • Comments Off

Spyware

As a follow up on my post “Snubbed by Google for being Spyware“ I am glad to announce that today Google considers me an actual person and not an automated request from a computer virus or spyware application.

Google

Thank you Google I almost forgot what it is like to be a human being. After being a computer program for almost a full day the physical world starts to get fuzzy.

Burn Notice

Wow! Now I now what Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) from Burn Notice must feel like.

After 10 years of serving his country working in Eastern Europe and the OPEC countries as a covert operative, Michael is living every spy’s worst nightmare. While in the middle of a dangerous mission in Nigeria, Michael’s “contact” informs him that he has been burned. When a spy gets fired, he doesn’t get a call from human resources and a gold watch. In Michael’s case, they jeopardize his life, freeze his bank accounts, dump him in Miami, and flag him on every government list known to man. They can’t take away his skills or what’s in his head, so they take away his assets and his resources to make sure he can never work again. They burn him.

I had almost accepted that when I wanted to use Google for a search, standard procedure was that everyone was required to enter the captha word.

Now if I can stop watching the Burn Notice episodes on line I might be able to get back into the swing of things.

Thanks Google for allowing me to be a human again.

Late,
Gary Pool

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