This is the best laugh I've had in weeks: CNNs 101 dumbest moments in business in 2006. The Chevy Tahoe viral act gaffe sets the stage, especially once I went to www.youtube.com and looked up some of those Chevy Tahoe ads. It just gets better as well! I didn't realize so many funny and awesome things happened in 2006!

One thing I've realized slowly over the years is there are a lot of people in this world and country with the name Michael Dickey. I've made attempts in the past to search out old buddies and friends and classmates from various times in my past, and typically, those searches yield very few hits when using their first and last names, even shortened versions of them. But a search on Michael Dickey or Mike Dickey yields more hits than I even care to go through. And maybe one or two end up referring to me! There's a number of artists, a few professors (one a woman), even some weird hits on some Linux forums.

That's kinda mindboggling and surprising. Although, about 5 years ago, someone was arrested here in Des Moines for holding up a grocery store with a gun whose name was Michael Dickey. There's another of me right here in town! Maybe I should consider using Michael L. Dickey in the future!

As much as that is a bit annoying, especially to anyone who might try to look me up like I do old buddies, that little bit of added noise is very helpful when trying to maintain some sort of anonymity online. It also helps that this site links out to very few other sites, and likewise gets linked to from very few sites. This keeps it relatively low on search engine results.