Last night I watched two different Mark Wahlberg movies, Max Payne and The Happening. I’m usually a big fan of his movies, but these were not two of his better efforts in my opinion. The storylines were okay, but they just didn’t connect like some of his other movies I’ve enjoyed. Max Payne was a movie that came from a video game. It kind of reminded me of the darkness and revenge of original The Crow with Brandon Lee. The Happening carried on with M. Night Shyamalan freakiness in storyline, but the acting was just okay. In my opinion the premise of the movie was a bit far-fetched, but the visual impact of the story line was quite disturbing. Mark has had quite a productive career in Hollywood since dropping his pants and... [Read more]

Collective Soul is easily one of my favorite rock groups that I can think of enjoying for so long. They’ve always had great music, but have never really had the huge media fame and larger-than-life persona that other groups have had… and I like it that way. Their major hits like "December", "Gel", "Shine" and "The World I Know" were popular during my college years. However, it wasn’t until I stumbled across their live concert recording for "Home" with the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra that I really gained a huge love for their music. That CD and DVD is absolutely the BEST ever! Collective Soul has now released their 2nd album since "Home" and they continue to deliver... [Read more]

The 7-0 Indianapolis Colts are battling the 5-3 Houston Texans this weekend. The Texans have been playing some good football this season and may give the Colts a good run for the money at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Perhaps the biggest opponent for the Colts though is battling their own challenges with injured players. Many people really wondered about the Colts this season with a new head coach in Jim Caldwell and the release of Marvin Harrison from the receiver squad. The bigger challenge though has been injured players. With so many new and young players in the lineup I’m very impressed and proud of my Colts. Here’s the latest injury report: Marlin Jackson (Cornerback) – out for season Bob Sanders (Strong Safety)... [Read more]

The battle for search is still going strong. All search companies are continually tweaking and adjusting their algorithms to help improve their search results and keep those same formulas for being gamed by developers.   With Microsoft releasing Bing and Google working on their newest search algorithm called Google Caffeine, there’s a lot of effort around incorporating the idea of social search with your organic results. One of my biggest complaints about search is that my results are impacted by just about everything that’s available on the web. If I’m searching for a question about a certain topic, I don’t want to get results from sites that are completely irrelevant to the goal of my search. For example, if I’m... [Read more]

If you’re quick, you should go follow @MSNBCHeadlines on twitter. They’ve had their account hacked and let’s just say the person that’s in control of the account is having a little fun with the media outlet. I’m not sure how it is all these accounts on twitter have been getting hacked so prolifically lately. I don’t think all of these people have simple passwords that are getting cracked, so what’s happening? Are there machines infected with other malware that’s collecting login information? Aside from the major PR issues that a entity like MSNBC is going to have to deal with after this kind identity theft, twitter is going to have to start doing something a little more to protect the security... [Read more]