His wife, Araceli Valencia, was mopping the kitchen in their family home on a typical warm spring morning in Phoenix, Arizona, "when she suddenly felt a hard object pointed to the back of her head and a voice in Spanish tell her not to move," according to a Phoenix, Arizona, police investigative report.

"I told you not to look at me!" Valencia heard one of the kidnappers bark as he struck Andrade across the head.

Her four children bawling, Valencia was hustled into a bedroom where an armed man fondled her and threatened to rape her if she didn't tell him where Andrade hid his money, according to the report.

After beating and binding Andrade, one of the kidnappers put a gun to Valencia's head. His message: We're taking your husband and SUV. We'll be watching your house. If you call the cops, he's a dead man.

Andrade, his wife would later tell police, was a mechanic and freelance human smuggler, or coyote. Police say his 2006 kidnapping was evidence of a growing trend in Phoenix: drug and human traffickers abducting each other for ransoms or retribution.  Hear Andrade's wife plead with the kidnappers »

The trend continues, as police investigated roughly a kidnapping a day in 2007 and 2008 and are on track to shatter those numbers this year. Police are stingy with details of fresh cases navigating the court system, but recently allowed CNN to review the files from Andrade's kidnapping.

Lakers should take care of this game easy with all the size they have. Not just w/ Gasol and Bynum, but with Yao out, every position is a mismatch ... Lakers cover easy -9 LOS ANGELES -- Momentum. It's something everyone likes to talk about: "They have the momentum now," media types and fans often proclaim. And it's certainly something the Los Angeles Lakers would like to think they have as they head to Houston for Game 6 on Thursday. But Lakers co-captain Derek Fisher, a veteran of 163 playoff games and three championship teams, says game-to-game momentum doesn't exist, just as the Lakers' 118-78 blowout of the Rockets in Game 5 wasn't the "statement game" all of Los Angeles had been waiting for. "Every game is different," Fisher said. "To say we recaptured the magic [in Game 5] means Thursday we'll play the same way. That's just not how this works. Thursday, we might shoot 39 percent, and you just got to play defense and rebound and hustle and take charges and figure out a way to win the game. It's going to be different than it was [Tuesday]." And that could include the play of their on-again, off-again man in the middle, Andrew Bynum, who started in place of the ailing Lamar Odom in Game 5 and came up with more points than fouls in the first few minutes of the game, unlike in the first few games of the series. "I got into a little rhythm," he said after a 90-minute practice Wednesday before boarding a flight to Houston. Bynum, who finished with 16 points in 20 minutes of play, has been called everything from soft to lazy to, perhaps worst of all, nonchalant. He has been crucified for admitting that most of his problems have been mental, rather than physical, in returning after tearing the medial collateral ligament in his right knee. And he's a key part of a Lakers mystery: Since his absence seemed to be a key reason L.A. lost to Boston in the NBA Finals last June, why hasn't his return helped the team this season? "You've got to remember he's a 21-year-old kid coming off sitting out 32 games with injury," Fisher said. Bynum entered the NBA as the youngest player to ever play in the league and still is developing muscle on his baby-faced body. He is soft-spoken and mannerly, hardly the image of someone who viciously prowls the paint. Lakers coach Phil Jackson usually has had an enforcer on his teams, someone like Dennis Rodman, Ron Harper or Robert Horry to send a message. Fisher tried to be that guy in Game 3, but he's a point guard. Many have hoped Bynum will be that player for L.A. in the playoffs, but he hasn't been. Part of the problem has been the knee injury, which requires him to play with an awkward brace that he says restricts his mobility and lift and reminds him he missed 32 games and is just "85 percent" healthy. His mellow personality is misleading, Fisher says, but Bynum is sensitive enough that the Lakers have been cautious about how they talk to him, how they encourage him, how they deliver the criticism. They might want to get in his face and tell him to step up to his enormous potential, but some guys just don't respond to that, Fisher says, and Bynum is one of them. "We push Andrew, but we respect who he is and we don't ride him in a way that we feel like it would disrupt his confidence or his ability to go out there and help our team," Fisher said. "We have to use Andrew the right way. We can't just put him out there and if he doesn't come back with 15 points and 15 rebounds, now everyone is upset, saying, 'What is Andrew doing?' We have got to put him into position to do those things." Which they did in Game 5, in part by starting him. Even big-time, professional, millionaire ballplayers still get jazzed about starting games. That includes Odom, who was in so much pain the night before Game 5 that he slept in a chair, unable to lie out straight on his bed -- but he still wanted to start. Odom did play through the pain of a badly bruised back when Bynum came out in Game 5, with Jackson sensing that Bynum was favoring the injured knee. Odom remains day-to-day and was "no worse for the wear," Jackson said, after his efforts in Game 5. The Lakers likely will go big again Thursday night to take advantage of Houston's Yao Ming-less small lineup. But they know that alone won't do it. They know they need to reach back and find even more energy and passion than they displayed in Game 5. Because, as they say, they can't count on momentum. Shelley Smith is an ESPN bureau reporter based in Los Angeles.

The story Let's just say it. The whole thing sounds insane. For six days, people from across the world -- accountants, school teachers, farmers, CEOs -- will run 150 miles, the equivalent of five consecutive marathons, across one of southern Africa's most remote landscapes. Without showers, toilets or beds, the racers must fend for themselves by carrying in their backpacks all the food they will need for the week. Water is rationed, despite 120-degree heat. And the racers will wear whistles to summon help should they encounter a wild animal that seems inclined to make them into dinner. Read full article »

(CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused CIA officials Thursday of misleading her in 2002 about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning and has been described by critics as torture. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was misled about the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques." Pelosi reiterated an earlier claim that she was briefed on such techniques only once -- in September 2002 -- and that she was told at the time that the techniques were not being used. A recently released Justice Department memo says that the CIA used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 in the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, a suspected al Qaeda leader imprisoned at U.S. facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Pelosisaid that one month later, she was told only that the Justice Department had concluded that such techniques were legal, not that they were being used. "That's the only mention, that they were not using it. And we now know that earlier, they were," Pelosi said at her weekly news conference. Watch Pelosi explain what she was told » Pelosi said the briefing she received from the CIA was incomplete and inaccurate, and she called on the CIA to release a full transcript of the briefing. She said that in February 2003, a member of her staff told her that the Republican chairman and the new Democratic ranking member of the Intelligence Committee had been briefed on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

In it’s own words Microsoft promotes IE8 for “professionals as well as those trying CSS and scripting for the first time.“, because of it’s built in tools for debugging purpose. ReadWriteWeb has done a great job promoting IE8, this is what they had to say regarding it’s standard compliance:

There were hints that IE8 would be a remarkable offering on the IE Blog as they released tidbits about the browser’s capabilities. For example, the announcement of IE8’s passing of the Acid2 test (a test for standards compliance) marked a milestone in IE8’s development. The standards mode was originally going to be turned off by default letting web developers code for it by including a “meta” tag to make use of IE8’s new standards compliant mode. Later, Microsoft came to their senses and made the default the standards-compliant mode.

That’s great news. It seems Microsoft has finally done something right, regarding IE, by following web standards; which has been a cause of headache for many web developers and freelancers like me trying to get websites compatible for two different browsers.

Let’s look at some IE8 standard compliance power:

Palm 'Withdraws' McNamee's iPhone-Killing Pre Statements
Posted by Eric Zeman, Mar 10, 2009 09:57 AM

Last week, Elevation Partners investor Roger McNamee made some interesting statements about how he believes early adopters of the iPhone will jump ship and replace their Apple hardware with the Palm Pre. Palm thought his statements went a little bit too far, and submitted a document to the SEC "withdrawing" them.

This is too rich. As if McNamee's statements weren't somewhat inflammatory to begin with, Palm is calling even more attention to them. Here's what he said last week:"June 29, 2009, is the two-year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later. Think about it -- if you bought the first iPhone, you bought it because you wanted the coolest product on the market. Your two-year contract has just expired. Look around. Tell me what they're going to buy."
"The Pre going to be a million times -- well, not a million times -- several times faster than the iPhone."
"The Pre is going to run rings around [Apple] on the Web."
McNamee is implying that iPhone users will want the Palm Pre and nothing else. He's forgetting that there could be a significant number of first-generation iPhone adopters who already moved on to the 3G iPhone. Those users will still be under contract come June 29, 2009. Second, McNamee isn't considering the possibility that Apple may release yet another version of the iPhone come the summer. Palm decided it best to take those statements off the public record (after all, investors may take McNamee seriously).

If you’re still holding your breath for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to enable some sort of turn-by-turn GPS navigation functionality on the iPhone, you might have to keep on keepin’ on, as they say. Ever since Apple released its GPS-toting iPhone 3G, the world has been waiting for a bona fide navigation application with turn-by-turn directions. The GPS receiver lying within the iPhone 3G offered users the tantalizing prospect of using their shiny handset as an in-car GPS navigation system, but Apple has so far been slow to move on that front. But, if real-time GPS navigation on the iPhone is more important than your loyalty to Apple, XROAD’s new G-Map for iPhone is ready to turn your iPhone 3G into a high-performance GPS navigation unit.

Car blog Kicking Tires had a chance to review the new XROAD G-Map application for the iPhone 3G, and came away quite impressed. G-Map for iPhone proved to be as accurate as any dedicated navigation unit from TomTom or Garmin, as long as towering buildings didn’t get in the way - GPS accuracy suffers in downtown Chicago, but moving towards the out-skirts of town revives G-Map’s pin-point accuracy. G-Map also gets high marks for its ease of use (this is an iPhone, remember?), POI content, routing directions and value. Unfortunately, G-Map lost points for its inability to display all street names on the map and its apparent lack of voice-guided navigation. But, with future application updates likely to fix the street name snafu, G-Map for iPhone still scores well.

G-Map for iPhone will cost you $19 from the iPhone AppStore, but when you compare that to the cost of a comparably sized (in terms of screen size) GPS navigation unit, it’s obvious that there’s tons of value packed in this iPhone app.

People could be obsessed with you, reading everything you write. You are completely unaware of this as they're taking notes about the things you like, the places you go etc.

If you're fighting with something and you post something about it, then they'll post in theirs. Pretty soon it's a public fight, with both of you saying dumbass things.

When you're upset or frustrated with something but don't want to get into it with your friends/family, you can't post how you're really thinking or feeling unless you want to make things worse.

If there IS someone you know is reading your stuff and you don't want them to know where you're going all the time and everything, then you have to start censoring yourself.

When you hang out with friends and they post about their night and you always come off looking stupid but if you say anything it will end up in their journal.

If you're pretending that you're too busy for the internet to avoid someone, then they will simply wait for you to post on your journal. once you've done that, then you'll get hate mail from them saying that you're avoiding them.

Fucked up strangers think they have the right to comment on anything you've put in your journal.

You post in anger and suddenly you're labelled as a huge bitch by all your 'friends' linked to it.

Some people don't know when to shut the hell up in theirs. No one gives a flying fuck about every detail of your stupid day!? Who cares what you wore?!

The people who are posting photos of themselves but claiming they're 'ugly' or 'fat' or something. If they truly didn't like they way they looked, why are they posting photos?

People who post sexy photos of themselves because it's all they think they have going for them.

People who brag about all the drugs/sex/partying they do in an attempt to seem well liked by other idiots.

Those who believe every detail of every post you ever make and then call you on it later.

When your friends post pictures of you hanging out, they always pick the ones where THEY look wonderful and you look like an ugly freak.

People who are stupid enough to post enough information to be able to track them down in person.

Leaving your entries online for over a year allows people to spend hours reading everything you've written. If they're crazy enough, they'll think they actually KNOW you from simply reading the entries. Then, they'll contact you and pretend to be a normal person, who just so happen to love/hate the same things you do.

Having your ex post up pictures of them with a new boyfriend/girlfriend and you can't help but look and feel even worse.

Having people you're arguing with post fake/nasty things for everyone to read and when you don't (to be the better person) then the posts continue and you have to do all you can to stop from going over and punching their face in.

Knowing that your parents read your journal and thus being unable to post party pictures because you told them you were going to the library or something. Then, your friend posts all the photos and your parents see THAT.

Kids stupid enough to brag about partying etc KNOWING their parents read their journals but doing it anyway to be 'cool'.

People who OBSESS over others and blither on in their journals about it. (Writing stories, poems, and all sorts of stuff)

Those who can't figure out how to link images properly so they're always broken.

People who post ten times in one day.

There are so many people using butchered language that it's impossible to read. (2, U, wuzup, 4 etc)

Journals where the colors are so awful it's impossible to read a damned word.

Peope who think that those stupid animated cursors and songs playing upon loading up are 'cool'. They're not, it's very annoying.

Having to pick a 'mood' that suits you but instead you pick the emoticon you like the most.

When you go to sign up with a username, the one you want is always taken and then you get stuck with some shitty one you didn't really want anyway.

Having people you hate reading your stuff and making fun of you.

You spend time customizing it only to have it crash the following week and reset everything to default.

Writing up a huge entry and spending lots of time on it, only to have the journal time out and lose everything you've written.

Posting from work/school and forgetting to change the time so it LOOKS like you posted from home. Then you're caught and get in shit.

Having people reply to your entries and post personal/revealing information and you don't know how to delete their posts.

People who change their design every day, spending hours on it. What a waste!

Being out somewhere and all you can think about is how you're going to describe it in your journal when you get home.

Reading about someone and wanting to be their friend because you have a lot in common, but now you feel like you're some creepy person that reads a strangers journal so you don't make contact with them.

Posting on others journals in an attempt to make friends and being treated like you're some annoying loser when really you're just lonely.

Not being sure what to write about becuase you feel your life is boring and when you post that, you get given shit by friends and strangers about feeling sorry for yourself all the time.

People who write about how much their journal suck but they never attempt to make it better.

Posting entries while drunk and feeling like a dumbass the next day and you're too hungover to figure out how to delete it.

Making things up or copying out of other people's journals because you don't want to write about yourself for real.

People who fill their journal with entries about how depressed they are and how bad their life is, but anyone reading their journal knows 3 entries in that they have no one to blame but themselves.

Reading about someone you like liking someone else in their journal and you're all hurt.

Having someone print out some of your entries and post them around your school/workplace for the sole purpose of making you look like a moron OR they do a screen capture of your post and post it in theirs.

Posting an idea you had and then seeing someone you KNOW reads your journal posting that idea as their own somewhere else.

When reading old entries, you realize what a fucking moron you were only months ago and start deleting them.

After reading the journal/blog of someone you like, you discover what a horrible/stupid person they are and you feel like an idiot for ever liking them.

You post ONE photo of yourself online and suddenly all these losers start sending you messages about how they love you and think you're hot but all you are is creeped the hell out.

After setting up the journal, spending time to make it look right, and post some huge post about how you're going to write in it every other day and get something done in your life, you forget about it until months later. Then, you make another post proclaiming how THIS time you're going to get your life together and post, you forget again for another few months.

People who set up journals just to post once that they hate their journal and then never post again.

Myspace.com

People who encourage you to set up journals so they don't have to have actual conversations with you, but can instead just read what you've posted and THEN decide if they want to get into conversation with you.

People who only post lyrics of songs they didn't write.

People who insist on discussing everything you write in your journal with you when they see you in person. "SO, I saw in your journal that you hate salad. Why is that?"

When you ask people how they are while chatting and they reply with a post to their journal so they don't have to speak with you directly.

People who spend way too much time creating the PERFECT avatar/user icon for themselves.

Entries that contain a lot of thought and information, only to be deleted by the person later on.

Putting a lot of thought into a post and no one replies to it. Then, when you post something dumb, everyone you know replies to it.

People who post really pointless stuff in their online journal in the hope that it somehow makes them important

People who post really pointless stuff in their online journal and have a huge number of readers who make them into some sort of minor internet celebrity.

Knowing that you we inevitably read the online journal of people you hate in the hope that they have contracted some sort of fatal and painful disease but instead finding out that they have won the lottery and are marrying your highschool sweetheart.

Reading the journals of promiscuous hot guys/chick who, will seeming willing to sleep with just about anything, wouldn't give it up for you.

The proliferation of really pointless and shitty questionnaires that are rife on online journals.

The proliferation of young, nubile teenagers whoring themselves for attention and money on sites such as Camwhores.com whilst using an online journal to hook guys in.

People who read your journal, idolise you and try to become you.

Having an online stalker who follows each of your friends journals as well as yours, and then posts on all of them claiming they're in love with you, as well as threatening anyone who likes you. Then when you ask/tell them to stop, they start posting about what a bitch/asshole you are on everyone's journals and they create a special one dedicated to how much they hate you now.

Being unsure quite why you're doing it but being completely unwilling to stop writing in your online Journal.

Being stopped in the street by someone you haven't talked to directly in years, and they ask you about stuff that you wrote in your journal 2 years ago.

Revealing to the world how much of a moron you are and how bad your spelling is.

Writing up huge journal entries, thinking that you're being witty, interesting and such, only to realize that perhaps you and one other person are reading it.

Writing up a really stupid entry that reveals just how big of a dumbass you are, and having everyone you know just so happen to read it that day.

The stupidest people who have no sense of decency always end up having tons of people reading their journal. Then they become this 'internet celeberty' for being a complete fucking bitch/asshole.

People who think it's ok to say whatever they want online becuase "it's just words on a screen."

People who post gigantic pictures of stupid things or their pets. Sure, you may have a cute animal or something, but 10 5mb pictures on your journal isn't cute at all.

People who post pictures of themselves, thinking that they're sexy, only to be told they're ugly. Don't get angry because you said that you were sexy and we don't all agree! Either toughen up or don't put your sorry ass photos online!

Writing a huge post about how angry or confused you are with something you saw/read and a few days later someone sends you an email with a simple and obvious explanation.

Worrying that you have to be RIGHT about everything you say on your journal, or that people will use it against you.

Peterson, a former Bolingbrook, Illinois, police sergeant, has not filed divorce papers, said his attorney, Joel Brodsky.

But Peterson told an author he would look into a divorce after Stacy had been missing for a year. He said he was considering divorce for the sake of their children.

"I can confirm that Drew Peterson did have a consultation with Jeffrey Leving," Brodsky said, adding that no divorce papers have been filed.

Leving, who bills himself as a father's rights lawyer, represented Cuban immigrant Elian Gonzalez's uncle and ultimately helped reunite the boy with his father

Police have said that 54-year old Peterson is a suspect in his wife's disappearance, which investigators have labeled a "potential homicide."

Peterson maintains that his wife, who was 23 at the time of her disappearance, left him for someone else.

In an interview in May with Derek Armstrong, author of "Drew Peterson Exposed," Peterson hinted that he planned to divorce her after she had been missing for a year. In Illinois, willful desertion or abandonment is grounds for a divorce after a year.

The interview begins with Peterson expressing frustration with the media attention and negative reactions from his neighbors.

"We were talking about the neighbors and how it's hard to live in the neighborhood with the media trucks around and the neighbors being so difficult," Armstrong told CNN. "I asked if he was going to move, and he said, 'Yeah, when I get a chance, but Stacy's on the title.' "

People could be obsessed with you, reading everything you write. You are completely unaware of this as they're taking notes about the things you like, the places you go etc.

If you're fighting with something and you post something about it, then they'll post in theirs. Pretty soon it's a public fight, with both of you saying dumbass things.

When you're upset or frustrated with something but don't want to get into it with your friends/family, you can't post how you're really thinking or feeling unless you want to make things worse.

If there IS someone you know is reading your stuff and you don't want them to know where you're going all the time and everything, then you have to start censoring yourself.

When you hang out with friends and they post about their night and you always come off looking stupid but if you say anything it will end up in their journal.

If you're pretending that you're too busy for the internet to avoid someone, then they will simply wait for you to post on your journal. once you've done that, then you'll get hate mail from them saying that you're avoiding them.

Fucked up strangers think they have the right to comment on anything you've put in your journal.

You post in anger and suddenly you're labelled as a huge bitch by all your 'friends' linked to it.

Some people don't know when to shut the hell up in theirs. No one gives a flying fuck about every detail of your stupid day!? Who cares what you wore?!

The people who are posting photos of themselves but claiming they're 'ugly' or 'fat' or something. If they truly didn't like they way they looked, why are they posting photos?

People who post sexy photos of themselves because it's all they think they have going for them.

People who brag about all the drugs/sex/partying they do in an attempt to seem well liked by other idiots.

Those who believe every detail of every post you ever make and then call you on it later.

When your friends post pictures of you hanging out, they always pick the ones where THEY look wonderful and you look like an ugly freak.

People who are stupid enough to post enough information to be able to track them down in person.

Leaving your entries online for over a year allows people to spend hours reading everything you've written. If they're crazy enough, they'll think they actually KNOW you from simply reading the entries. Then, they'll contact you and pretend to be a normal person, who just so happen to love/hate the same things you do.

Having your ex post up pictures of them with a new boyfriend/girlfriend and you can't help but look and feel even worse.

Having people you're arguing with post fake/nasty things for everyone to read and when you don't (to be the better person) then the posts continue and you have to do all you can to stop from going over and punching their face in.

Knowing that your parents read your journal and thus being unable to post party pictures because you told them you were going to the library or something. Then, your friend posts all the photos and your parents see THAT.

Kids stupid enough to brag about partying etc KNOWING their parents read their journals but doing it anyway to be 'cool'.

People who OBSESS over others and blither on in their journals about it. (Writing stories, poems, and all sorts of stuff)

Those who can't figure out how to link images properly so they're always broken.

People who post ten times in one day.

There are so many people using butchered language that it's impossible to read. (2, U, wuzup, 4 etc)

Journals where the colors are so awful it's impossible to read a damned word.

Peope who think that those stupid animated cursors and songs playing upon loading up are 'cool'. They're not, it's very annoying.

Having to pick a 'mood' that suits you but instead you pick the emoticon you like the most.

When you go to sign up with a username, the one you want is always taken and then you get stuck with some shitty one you didn't really want anyway.

Having people you hate reading your stuff and making fun of you.

You spend time customizing it only to have it crash the following week and reset everything to default.

Writing up a huge entry and spending lots of time on it, only to have the journal time out and lose everything you've written.

Posting from work/school and forgetting to change the time so it LOOKS like you posted from home. Then you're caught and get in shit.

Having people reply to your entries and post personal/revealing information and you don't know how to delete their posts.

People who change their design every day, spending hours on it. What a waste!

Being out somewhere and all you can think about is how you're going to describe it in your journal when you get home.

Reading about someone and wanting to be their friend because you have a lot in common, but now you feel like you're some creepy person that reads a strangers journal so you don't make contact with them.

Posting on others journals in an attempt to make friends and being treated like you're some annoying loser when really you're just lonely.

Not being sure what to write about becuase you feel your life is boring and when you post that, you get given shit by friends and strangers about feeling sorry for yourself all the time.

People who write about how much their journal suck but they never attempt to make it better.

Posting entries while drunk and feeling like a dumbass the next day and you're too hungover to figure out how to delete it.

Making things up or copying out of other people's journals because you don't want to write about yourself for real.

People who fill their journal with entries about how depressed they are and how bad their life is, but anyone reading their journal knows 3 entries in that they have no one to blame but themselves.

Reading about someone you like liking someone else in their journal and you're all hurt.

Having someone print out some of your entries and post them around your school/workplace for the sole purpose of making you look like a moron OR they do a screen capture of your post and post it in theirs.

Posting an idea you had and then seeing someone you KNOW reads your journal posting that idea as their own somewhere else.

When reading old entries, you realize what a fucking moron you were only months ago and start deleting them.

After reading the journal/blog of someone you like, you discover what a horrible/stupid person they are and you feel like an idiot for ever liking them.

You post ONE photo of yourself online and suddenly all these losers start sending you messages about how they love you and think you're hot but all you are is creeped the hell out.

After setting up the journal, spending time to make it look right, and post some huge post about how you're going to write in it every other day and get something done in your life, you forget about it until months later. Then, you make another post proclaiming how THIS time you're going to get your life together and post, you forget again for another few months.

People who set up journals just to post once that they hate their journal and then never post again.

Myspace.com

People who encourage you to set up journals so they don't have to have actual conversations with you, but can instead just read what you've posted and THEN decide if they want to get into conversation with you.

People who only post lyrics of songs they didn't write.

People who insist on discussing everything you write in your journal with you when they see you in person. "SO, I saw in your journal that you hate salad. Why is that?"

When you ask people how they are while chatting and they reply with a post to their journal so they don't have to speak with you directly.

People who spend way too much time creating the PERFECT avatar/user icon for themselves.

Entries that contain a lot of thought and information, only to be deleted by the person later on.

Putting a lot of thought into a post and no one replies to it. Then, when you post something dumb, everyone you know replies to it.

People who post really pointless stuff in their online journal in the hope that it somehow makes them important

People who post really pointless stuff in their online journal and have a huge number of readers who make them into some sort of minor internet celebrity.

Knowing that you we inevitably read the online journal of people you hate in the hope that they have contracted some sort of fatal and painful disease but instead finding out that they have won the lottery and are marrying your highschool sweetheart.

Reading the journals of promiscuous hot guys/chick who, will seeming willing to sleep with just about anything, wouldn't give it up for you.

The proliferation of really pointless and shitty questionnaires that are rife on online journals.

The proliferation of young, nubile teenagers whoring themselves for attention and money on sites such as Camwhores.com whilst using an online journal to hook guys in.

People who read your journal, idolise you and try to become you.

Having an online stalker who follows each of your friends journals as well as yours, and then posts on all of them claiming they're in love with you, as well as threatening anyone who likes you. Then when you ask/tell them to stop, they start posting about what a bitch/asshole you are on everyone's journals and they create a special one dedicated to how much they hate you now.

Being unsure quite why you're doing it but being completely unwilling to stop writing in your online Journal.

Being stopped in the street by someone you haven't talked to directly in years, and they ask you about stuff that you wrote in your journal 2 years ago.

Revealing to the world how much of a moron you are and how bad your spelling is.

Writing up huge journal entries, thinking that you're being witty, interesting and such, only to realize that perhaps you and one other person are reading it.

Writing up a really stupid entry that reveals just how big of a dumbass you are, and having everyone you know just so happen to read it that day.

The stupidest people who have no sense of decency always end up having tons of people reading their journal. Then they become this 'internet celeberty' for being a complete fucking bitch/asshole.

People who think it's ok to say whatever they want online becuase "it's just words on a screen."

People who post gigantic pictures of stupid things or their pets. Sure, you may have a cute animal or something, but 10 5mb pictures on your journal isn't cute at all.

People who post pictures of themselves, thinking that they're sexy, only to be told they're ugly. Don't get angry because you said that you were sexy and we don't all agree! Either toughen up or don't put your sorry ass photos online!

Writing a huge post about how angry or confused you are with something you saw/read and a few days later someone sends you an email with a simple and obvious explanation.

Worrying that you have to be RIGHT about everything you say on your journal, or that people will use it against you.