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I’ve been plagued all my life with a strange … affliction. I’m not sure if it’s something that I do to deserve this or it’s just my fate.

I’m the ‘midway friend’.

What I mean is, it seems like I’m the person that people befriend as the last resort. After all, no one wants to be friendless. So why not make friends with that guy with the crazy hair and crooked nose? Sure, he says oddly weird things sometimes but he’s nice and friendly.

But then, as I get comfortable after some time hanging out with that friend or chatting with them, something sad eventually happens. I get ditched. Sometimes it would be my fault. I push to hard for something or I say something less kind or accusatory. Then the friendship seems to dissolve. However, I look back and it seems like it’s more of the BBD. Bigger Better Deal. A new person comes along and my friend no longer talks to me very much. Barely says good morning. Seems they just … tolerate me.

I know that friends don’t last forever. Rarely can you find a friendship that lasts long. Maybe I’m just sentimental. But where is my Sam Gamgee who walks to the end of the world into the depth of a volcano with me, even after I’m possessed?

There is a Bible verse from Proverbs 18 that says this:

24 A man of many companions may come to ruin,
       but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

I’ve been more hurt by friends than enemies. It makes it hard to trust. Makes it hard to get close. I could list things that I’ve gone through with people who claim my friendship.

This is more of a rant post than any end result.

Today I will end with saying: I can’t let people get to close anymore.

We all knew it was coming. One of these days the end of the world would stare us right in the face, and I think it’s about to.

So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks…

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This shouldn’t really come to any surprise since the launch of Google’s browser, Chrome. Nor should it be any surprise since most of their enterprising projects have made huge splashes on the way we work and live (online speaking). Adsense, Google Search, Google Analytics, Android, etc. Now, with their ‘success’ of Chrome (which I hate, just to clarify) they’re moving on to browsers.

The only reason I’m nervous about this is because now that they watch how we surf the next via browser analytics, they’re now going to be able to see how we work on a computer. Of course they’ll say that they’re not going to track this information, but I have my doubts that would last long.

It’s good to see, however, that they’re supporting the open source community by keeping this – open source. But again, how long will that last? Is this going under a CC license or a GPL or are they going to keep all the code for themselves and save on paying developers?

Of course this is going on netbooks only right now – but what better way to test the waters then on poor, unsuspecting high school and college kids? All they know is they have a way to IM their friends, surf the net and feel like they have a cool tool while the parents can be happy about the low price tag.

I don’t know how this is going to pan out – but my buddy Todd always feared the Google Reich. I’m starting to get that paranoia as well ..

Some friends of mine are writers and directors – well, they want to be. They’ve been working on a StarWars fan-fiction mini-film that looks pretty promising. ‘Way of the Sith’ seems like it will be a pretty slick little movie … they better get it done soon so I can watch it!

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=COBWWdoZPDg[/youtube]

Yesterday, Carolyn, Aidan and I all decided that it would be fun to have the flu! So we did. We’re wild, eh? I think I had it the worse, followed closely by Aidan. Carolyn was down in the dumps too – but lucky for her she never threw up. Whilst I hugged the toilet for a majority of the day. It. Way. Horrible.
Today we’re all feeling much better. I guess Aidan is pretty clingy, but better. For which I’m glad. And Carolyn is also (thankfully) feeling better. I’m doing well, though I’m really sore … REALLY sore. And my forehead is bruised where it rested on the toilet … ew, I know. But when you’re spewing you really don’t care about cleanliness.