I’m sure we’ve all been faced with this dillema. No net and no sanity.

The internet is highly addictive, and sometimes when we have no access it’s hard to come up with productive things to do, so I’m going to help you build a list.

1. Exercise:

We spend tons of time online and hardly any exercising anymore, go walk the dog, take a brisk walk, ride a bike, or play catch with your kids, get out and do something. The fresh air will do you good, and you might not be so pale anymore.

2. Build your brain:

Read a book. Study. Go to a class. Watch discovery channel. Do something educational and just maybe you’ll stop being such an idiot.

3. Reconnect with friends. We all have friends or at least we all should - if you don’t then you go out and buy ‘How to win Friends and Influence People’ and apply it because you definitely need friends in life, or everything is meaningless.

Spend a couple hours and talk with the friends that you haven’t seen in a year or two, it’ll be a nice refreshing break from the internet.

4. Get caught up current events.

I like to do this daily anyways, when the internet is down is the perfect time - read the newspaper or turn on cnn, see what’s goin’ on in the world. Or you could just go watch Ghost hunters - I love that show…

5. Computer Cleaning.

No, it is not natural for your keys on your keyboard to be Cheetos Orange…Clean that damn computer! Now’s the perfect time to rip off the back of your computer and clean extremely thoroughly, and while you’re at it take apart your keyboard and disinfect it.

When you’re done cleaning the hardware, why not clean the software by defragmenting…When you do get your internet back your computer will be singing it will be so happy…

6. Play a game - but not a computer game. Maybe de-veg a bit. Cornhole is a fun outdoor game you could play, or play sudoku, or crossword, or solitaire, do something fun offline.

7. Build your finger dexterity. Write or Draw something, and do it on paper. You remember paper, right?

8. Get your chores done. My wife nags about chores all the time, but I’m always busy and don’t want to do them, I’m sure we can all relate - well since you can’t do anything blogging or business related without the computer anyway why not get your chores done now so you won’t have to worry about them when you do have your internet back? I’m a genius aren’t I?

9. Now that you’re done with chores, I always like to take a small nap..hehe… I’m sure no one would mind, would they?

10. Pray and Meditate. Take a moment to thank god (or whoever you worship) for all the blessings in your life. Think about things in your life, make goals, and just relax.

These are just a few ideas on how you can cut down on the frustration caused by not having your precious internet connection. Next time your isp is working on the lines get offline and have some you-time.

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I posted earlier today about the Discovery Educator Network scraping my content… I also took the initiative to email Steve Dembo at discovery who is in charge of the network. He has issued an apology, and removed the post in question.

I’d like to poll my readers:

Should I pursue a legal suit against Heather Sullivan?

Whether the content is still accessible or not, she still stole it. I’m not going to pursue anything against the Discovery Network, because it’s hardly their fault, but still I think someone should pay, and that I should be compensated. Anyhow I guess the case is closed for now, unless any lawyers think they can win a case against Heather Sullivan, if so contact me for a 50/50 split.

Here’s the email I received from Steve Dembo at Discovery Educator Network:

UPDATE: Steve Dembo’s Email Screenshot Image has been removed, Steve emailed me back and apparently doesn’t like his email being posted, so I complied at his request.

I’m still upset about this issue, but I’m just going to let it go and move on to blogging about stuff that really matters to me…

Note: He also requested the removal of the Discovery channel logo, but as the image is from Wikipedia, and qualifies as fair use, I have the right to use it, and unless someone from Discovery wants to pay me to remove it, it shall remain.

This Topic is now Officially closed and I’m done blogging about it. Let’s Move On…

This makes me furious.. I don’t mind if someone pulls a snippet or paragraph or two from my blog, and links back to the source, even if they’re scraping to do it’s not that bad…in my opinion…however posting the entire post, making 1-2 small changes and calling it your own?

I never expected the Discovery Channel to do this, seriously this is messed up.  Apparently Heather Sullivan over at the Discovery Educator Network, is nothing more than a scraper and a fiend. She should be punished royally. If any lawyers are out there reading this - and want to help in a legal case by all means contact me, I’ll even give you a 50/50 split of the lawsuit.

I originally made a post about Ping.fm, and Pingpress.fm. My post was titled: Intro to Ping.fm(In case you don’t know) and Wordpress Plugin. Heather’s post is “Put Ping on Your Radar” which I found from a pingback to an automatically inserted link to a related post of mine for the keyword twitter.

I took a screen shot for legal reasons as well as to show you the similarities between her post and mine. Notice all of the links are the same, and the way ping.fm is in “” and bolded. Seriously heather you need to learn some etiquette, and the Discovery network needs to have some sort of moderation.

First my post:

Now for the scrapers’ post: