Resistance Was Futile
Twice those words have been spoken and haunted me.

The first time was when the Cyborgs attempted to take control on an episode of StarTrek : The Next Generation…er…I mean…crap. Moving on, the second time was in 1996 or so when I moved from my Mom & Pop ISP (a moment of silence for www.avana.net please) and migrated to Big Brother (Mindspring). My old co-worker Tony Galek (where the hell is that guy?) sent me a one line e-mail: “Resistance was futile. You have been assimilated”. That stung.

I’m getting to my point, hang in there. Every time a launch a new IE window, Dogpile pops up. I’ve been a loyal user for a few years now, having fallen in love with it after discovering that it culls results from all the other engines. No longer having to run invididual seearches in Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, etc. etc. rocked…my…world. Well I’m not sure what’s been going on there over the last few months, but my results have become less and less relevant to what I’m really looking for and the GUI changed. Don’t change your hair for me. Not if you care for me. I love you just the way you are. Bad 70’s lyrics aside, I’m not a fan of change of that nature if they don’t ask my permission first.

They did not.

The plot thickens. Our heroine has been exposed to a new virus, contaminated. Googleized. Yes, I’ve gone to the dark side. Resistance was futile.

I have a new love and respect for The Monster that was sparked when I first played with it Google toolbar (80+ popups stopped in 3 days, don’t ask where I’ve been) and the expansion into / with other brian babies like Froogle and Blogger add to the adoration.

There it is. I’m a corporate whore.