Dear Santa,

I am a little boy and I think you already know this. The thing is that this is my first year on the internet and I started to do some interesting stuff, maybe you know what a blog or blogging is. If not you should google for it, of course if you have a computer and you know how to use it! I’ll get straight to the point, maybe you can understand me after all: blogging every day is hard, I destroyed my brain searching for information and learning every day from ebooks and other pwnage bloggers. This means that I am a studios boy and after all I behaved well all the year, because my social life is kinda over and I didn’t have with who to argue or fight! Now because I was a good boy all the year I want you to bring some gifts. Here is a list of the things that I want to have under my Christmas tree on 25 December (If not don’t even bother to fit your big fat as down my chimney because I KILL YOU):

• A laptop! This is an essential tool for blogging. Why? Because I want to do some live blogging when I get out of my room and then go to the bathroom! It’s the place where I get the most inspiration and I don’t know why. You should try it to some day!
• Because I know you will bring me a laptop, you should consider buying me a dedicated server as well, because my passion for blogging (I will create a lot of quality content from my bathroom) will result in huge amounts of traffic and I don’t want downtimes.
• A copy of the book “Blogging for dummies”. This isn’t for me because I know how to blog. I need to scan it and then spread it on the internet, maybe some of the n00bs will learn how to blog. By the way Santa, in your way to my house you can read it to. Maybe in the near future you will buy the domain santaclaus.com (if it’s not too expensive) and start blogging about how I introduced you to this world (a link to my blog in your blogroll is a must).
• And my last wish is a Sanyo Xacti CG7 or 8, not 6 like John Chow because I want my video blogging to be ubersmooth. It’s not so expensive I think! I want the best just don’t bring me the same video camera as his!

I am waiting for you Santa! I just hope the rumor that you are my father isn’t true because I don’t know what …. Ah I know what I’ll do!! The domain NOMORESANTACLAUS.COM is free, I’ll buy it and do some smart advertising for children between 6-12 years old and you are history. Blame it on my father !!!

Sincerly Cosmin!

I hope you’ve seen the movie “I am legend” starring Will Smith (Robert Neville), otherwise go to a cinema and see it, because in my opinion it’s a great movie. To get an idea about the movie, read the summary from imdb link here. Now let’s compare the story from “I am legend” with Google. I can only imagine that Google is the virus because it has behaved like one since the beginning and so, over the years it has “infected” us by spreading very fast on the internet (in the world) with the help of the monsters (spider bots) that are working full-time to provide the best cache for this search engine.

Because Google is the best virus, people have spread the word about it (infecting other persons) and so it has monopole in this industry for now. But wait, there are some persons out there that are immune to this virus; those persons are all the other search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc, the only problem is that they aren’t good enough to defeat it and save the world. Now comes Robert Neville in action! Who is he? Well he represents all the other projects started with the main goal > destroy Google. I don’t know if you remember, but a few months ago, Germany (Theseus) has started a project that can be described in a few words: “the world’s most advanced multimedia search engine for the next-generation Internet”. Now this can be our salvation, a cure for Google’s domination.

In conclusion I would like a cure like this, because I like new stuff, but until then we remain infected and I think that one day Google will own us. Let’s hope not and go see the movie because it already owns me!

• Did you know that besides head, neck, and lungs cancer, smoking can provoke bladder, kidney, pancreas, and cervix cancer and as well the new technology is adding leukemia and colorectal cancer this large list.
• This one is kinda funny, that smokers need more anesthesia for surgery and of course they recover very slow and in some cases they don’t recover at all
• Smoking is heavily related to osteoporosis, the loss of bone mass, which results in brittle bones and more breaks.
• Smokers can suffer of depression, but here I can say that sometimes depression leads on to smking.
• Former smokers and smokers are risking to develop cataracts permanent blindness from lack of blood flow and severe forms of macular degeneration.

Smoking isn’t good as you can see and know and I think that on the internet, the big companies such as Google and Yahoo should do some no-smoking campaigns, because a lot of smokers surf the net every day, 2 hours minimum