I'll spare you the details, since there really aren't that many. But last week my wife, the kids and I headed to Gulf Shores, Alabama for a few days at the beach.

The trip there and the time spent there was pretty uneventful, other than the fact that it seemed like everyone in Alabam looks a lot like Larry the Cable Guy.

But the journey back? Let's just say we are now of the opinion that Louisiana must be pretty desperate for cash and has turned its highways into the country's single largest speed trap.

My wife got nailed, not once, but twice with speeding tickets.

Now, admittedly, we know we aren't supposed to speed, but man, that stretch between Lafayette and Shreveport is one of the most mind-numbingly boring stretches of road I've ever seen. It practically begs you to speed just to get to some changed scenery.

Hate to tell you this Louisiana, but any plans we had for visting your State again anytime soon are now offically squelched, unless of course Governor Kathleen Blanco  wants to intervene and grant us clemency on our tickets.

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Ever have trouble remembering the words to songs, or even the song name or artist?

I had that problem recently when bits and pieces of the song "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet, kept running thorugh my head, and I could not remember the name of the song or artist.

For some reason I was determined to buy it, but couldn't remember the title or who it was by. I fruitlessly walked into a CD store and tried to hum it to them (trust me, you don't want to hear me sing), but the staff just gave me blank states.

Luckily, my early-onset-alzheimer's memory eventually kicked in and I recalled the name of the song.

But for the next time I run into the problem, there's now a Website ready to come to my rescue.

Midomi allows you to find out the name of a song, simply by humming or singing part of the song into your computer. All you need is a microphone, and you'll never be driven nuts by a song fragment running through your head again.

Of course, in my case, this means i need ot run out and buy a microphone. But I'll probably forget to do that before another tune in my head drives me bats.

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