Mmmmmm fish fry….

Just remember to grab a samuri sword to fillet it properly….

In this photo released by World Wildlife Fund-National Geographic, two Thai fishermen show a 293-kilogram (646-pound) giant catfish they caught from the Mekong River in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand Saturday, June 11, 2005. Thai fishermen have caught this giant catfish believed to be the world’s heaviest living freshwater fish but died and was eaten after environmentalists and officials negotiated for its release to allow it to spawn. article

This should prove some interesting results…. I guess each new ‘technology’ out there today is going to go through some legal validation process to ensure people aren’t getting ripped off, click fraud has been pretty tightly controlled by Google in their AdSense program. I’ve heard time and again how people’s AS accounts were just disabled (thus any revenue generated was in forfeit).

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A seller of online marketing tools said on Wednesday it sued Google Inc., charging that the Web search giant has failed to protect users of its advertising program from “click fraud,” costing them at least $5 million.
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Click Defense Inc. filed its lawsuit, which also seeks class action status, on June 24 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.

Click fraud is not “fraud” as defined under the law. Rather, it is an industry term used to describe the deliberate clicking on Web search ads by users with no plans to do business with the advertiser. Rival companies might employ people or machines to do this because the advertiser has to pay the Web search provider for each click.

You think this fella has figured out his luck has taken a turn for the worse? Think I’d take one of the kids’ bikes to work the next day…

CLINTON, Tenn. An Anderson County sheriff’s deputy has survived two car crashes in eight hours.
Sheriff Bill White issued a news release yesterday, saying his department is thankful no one was killed or critically injured in either crash — both of which destroyed police cruisers.

Deputy Mike Nations was first injured about midnight Saturday when the patrol car he was driving apparently blew a tire and rolled several times. Nations was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville. His wife — who was riding with him — was released after treatment.

When Nations was released Sunday morning, Deputy Nathan Brown was driving him home when that cruiser crashed.

Alcoa police reports show Brown apparently went into diabetic shock and lost control of the car, which ran off a curve, down an embankment and struck some construction equipment.

Nations has again been released from the hospital. Brown remained there yesterday after surgery.

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Okay I know, what the hell is FFFFA, inspired by Sarcastic Kitty, who last month ran a FFA posting on her blog for the last Friday of the month, I’ve stolen adopted/borrowed the idea, added a couple of F’s, but instead of the last this will be on the first Friday of each month, henceforth to be known as the First Friday Free For All.

July 1st, aka Friday morning sometime I’ll leave a post with a link and the user name/password you’ll need to use to login and you may post at will here on my blog. So tie a string on your finger, mark your calendar, put a sticky on your monitor, or write it on your forehead backwards so you don’t forget.

I’ve since learned of the originating source of the Friday FFA, more credit to spread around, I’ll let this one run through this week just to be different and also plan on opening the blog up to the the FFA crowd on the regular schedule.