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The first commercial starring Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld and the $10 million endorsement from Microsoft came out yesterday.

Bloggers, mostly confused and troubled by Bill Gates and his butt shake, have already started bashing the commercial. I was lost when the onlookers asked, "Is that The Conquistador?" What? Also, why is everyone in the commercial eating a Churro? Is Microsoft moving to Mexico in order to offer discount prices on computers?

The New York Times blog, BITS broke the story last week that Google is now testing video ads in search results in order to offer even more diverse opportunities and media expansion for AdWords advertisers.

Can I just say that as the last person in a fully developed country that doesn't have cable OR high definition television, the internet is like a treasure trove for me? This morning I went on YouTube and caught the highlights of last nights South Carolina debates, checked out some blogs to get people's reactions and joined my candidate's support group on Facebook.

XSL, ASP, ISP, SQL, POP, PHP...... Don't they drive you crazy?! They do me. I constantly hear them thrown around the office in all kinds of situations. Here is another, API. What in the heck does this one mean? Well, API is one of the few I do know. API stands for Application Programming Interface. Wikipedia defines API as "a source code interface that an operating system or library provides to support requests for services to be made of it by computer programs." Wow! Isn't that a mouthful?

In November 2008, I will be casting my vote for President for the 5th time in my life. I have had some winners and some losers. I have even had one where my vote didn't even count. Some guy named Harry Browne or something like that. Now that I am older, I look back on those "hanging chads" and wonder if the vote I casted the right one. Of course, I can't answer that, because every time I poked a hole in the in the yellow piece paper, the "chad" I left hanging was an uninformed one. It was not because I didn't know anything about the candidates. It was because I only knew the propaganda.

Internet video is leading the way to a new era in communication. Video has changed the way we apply for jobs, how we watch the daily news, and now how we interview our Presidential candidates.

Barack sent me another email this week. He wants me to have dinner with him. Lunch, maybe, but dinner I'm not sure I'm that serious about him yet. Hillary is still writing to me and I still haven't told her I'm upset about that whole Michael Moore/Sicko thing. I just wish they would both give me a little time to sort though all this. It's just too much, too fast.