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    The Problem with Total Surveillance

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    According to the emails I’ve received just in the past couple of weeks:

    I’m actively seeking employment in Pennsylvania
    I own rental property in Las Vegas
    I have wives and children enrolled in schools in NC, VA and Canada.
    I travel back and forth between San Francisco and New Zealand frequently
    I frequent some “interesting” dating sites, including at least one that caters to cheating spouses. (Great, thanks to whoever used my email address to sign up for that at the same time my wife is across the country, that doesn’t look odd!!!!)
    I am paying for cable internet/TV service for a young lady in Michigan. (Student using their stepfather’s payment info maybe?)
    I shop at some online retailers in England.
    Now, none of that is true

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    Next Stop Oregon!

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    As if to prove that old axiom about mice and men, roughly 3 years after moving to South Carolina because we wanted to be in the South, we now find ourselves on the verge of moving about as far away from the South as we can without leaving the country. Yes, my wife has accepted…

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    SEO Question

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    So, if there are any SEO “experts” out there willing to answer a question for me, I’m seeing some really odd Google behavior from one of my sites. The site in question is www.childabusesurvivor.net. The problem is this. Once upon a time my site was in the top three hits on Google for “child abuse…