Many of you enjoyed the fun posting I made a few weeks ago called “Piracy Going to the Dogs?”. But many of you also thought my comments about Lucky and Flo (the two black Labrador dogs who have been trained to find illegal CDs and DVDs) was my version of an early April Fool’s Day* joke. Far from it! I was quite serious and so too are the dogs and the people deploying them.
Last week, they chalked up another big success, which you can check out in Monday’s article from Reuters “DVD-busting Dogs Do It Again”. Once again the dogs were able to find things the human experts could not. In this case, they discovered over 150,000 illegal DVDs that were hidden in a secret room the investigators had missed. Apparently the pirates think the dogs are way too good as well and have "put out a hit” on the dogs to be killed and so Lucky and Flo now have their own security force!
While Lucky and Flo were not quite what I had in mind in my recent posting “The Search for Better Finding”, they none the less provide a great example of the end results (finding) winning out over the time we spend searching. As you can see, I didn't call this site "Off Course - On Target" for nothing!
But whether it is dogs or people or technology, here’s to continued progress in our quest to eliminate piracy and dramatically improve our abilities to actually find what we’re looking for.
* For those of you unfamiliar with the fun tradition of April Fool’s Day, sometimes called “All Fools Day” (or in France they call it "Poisson d'Avril" or "April Fish"), here is a quick history and explanation. Believing as I do that laughter is one of the best medicines, you may want to check out:
- “The Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time”
- Elliott Masie’s most recent Learning Trends posting #439 - Updates on Learning, Business & Technology. This is his version of an April Fool’s Day joke for those interested in learning, education, and training. And if you haven't done it already, I HIGHLY recommend that you subscribe to Elliott’s Trends Email.
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