Creating your very own CyberTwin is easy. All you have to do is register and then give your CyberTwin some ideas of things you want it to chat about. If you feed your CyberTwin content from your own IM conversations, email or blog, it will actually learn to talk and be just like you! It will be your digital personality and represent YOU online.

Isn’t that ID theft of your mind?

Any of your friends can go ahead, and feed the twin with what you have said…

Do you think it is ethical to create something like that?

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Today’s news is Oil prices decline as tensions ease between the U.K. and Iran.


At the same time the gasoline price goes up.

Haven’t we always been told that the gasoline price goes up and down in relation to the oil price? And please spare me the comment of: “It takes time for the gasoline price to change when the oil price changes.” Because that is only true when the oil price falls, but never when the oil price goes up.

Shouldn’t our politicians step in and stop this price hike that makes a handful wealthier but at the same time hurts an economics that is not running at its best? But then again—we saw after hurricane Katrina how that worked out…

Do you think that the oil companies will ever pass on savings to the consumer?

Is pleasing the stockholders no matter what a model that outlives itself?

Are you starting to wonder how many disasters are created—to get more publicity, reasons to increase prices, et cetera?

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Do you use them? I know of many big ISPs like AOL and Verizon, but also Gmail that have ended up on blacklists. My fuzz with blacklists is the amount of wrongly blocked addresses and how easy it is to get something blocked while at the same time taking ages to remove a block. That’s like shooting the mailman—because he might bring you spam.

And spam arrest—are you going ahead and fill that out—when the other person is someone you are in contact with for weeks or months? And isn’t it true that many spammers employ extreme low wage employees to fill out those spam arrests?

Let’s face it: Spam is a problem but blacklisting or spam arrest do not fix the problem; they actually add more complications.

SpamAssassin and some rules of the e-mail software help me to weed spam fast.

But I am not using Outlook for e-mail. Are you?

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All of those “reality” shows stand and fall with the quality of the candidates. And their likeability from the viewers point of view.

Was letting go of Caroline was a good move for the show?

Don’t you miss George?

Can you still learn something from The Apprentice?

Or is it just chewing gum for the brain?

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If at first you don’t succeed, you’re fired!

Jean Graman

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