The Real Geek's Blog. Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.
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Classify this as the cutest movie trailer EVAR!
Energizer: How to receive your free Hasbro Star Wars lightsaber.
Google: Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer.
newrecuit: I don't see anything in the email about being quiet about this so here goes with some cool new mapping features.
Randy: _ _ _ _ING COOL!!!
Video: http://videos.firebox.com/pv/lightsaber_firebox.wmv. This really does exist and you can own one, but it's not cheap ($150).
My son wants a Star Wars edition Super Soaker. We haven't even seen the movie yet, although we have watched episode 4, 5, 6 in the last week. Just image, Batman starts later this week.
TDCanadaTrust: Switch your main chequing account to
Randy: It's not worth it. Trust me! iPods are great. TD Canada Trust sucks!
PR: For the quarter ended March 31, 2005 revenue of $19,545.
Randy: Wow! They spent $millions on advertising and their entire company revenues are less than my personal salary. These guys are good! .... at suckering investors.
Petro-Points: 1000 Bonus Petro-Points when you provide your email address.
Shel Israel: This has nothing to do with Naked Conversations, but it is important. David Koch, a friend of my Conferenza Partner is missing from a mountain. If you have any helpful ideas, please email Gary Bolles or me.
Randy: Let's get the word out thru the blogosphere. Maybe some friends in the Vancouver area can help.
Yahoo! Search Marketing is currently giving $25 credit for new sign ups. Use promo code US1447.
Google provides a bit of advice and a heat map of Webpage ad performance locations (darker = stronger).
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html
What a waste.
Pandia: Yahoo has announced its new pay per click product: Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly known as Overture and Goto.com). How does Yahoo Search Marketing compare with Google's AdWords?
GE is trying to keep up with Carls Jr.
http://www.1360klsd.com/timages/page/media/model_miners.mpeg
MediaPost: Forrester Research predicted that online advertising would reach $14.7 billion this year [cut]. Research firm eMarketer predicted a total online advertising market of $12.9 billion this year [cut].
Randy: I'm not asking for much, just 0.1% :)
Cory Doctorow: Chernobyl-area doctors claim that local "radiation-damaged" children are smarter and healthier than their counterparts.
Offer: Get $5 off a future Amazon.com order when you subscribe to select magazines, including Wired for $12.
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adash: Now Gmail needs to start a brewery just to keep up.
The older I get (iM 36), the more I start looking at stuff like this.
This is a great article on buyers, tire kickers and your adwords CTR. I've always been a proponent of low CTRs with focus on converting clicks into sales.
http://results-squared.com/ad-optimization/2005/03/increase-adwords-ctr-or-not.html
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Danny Sullivan: Google itself had one of its own listings hijacked. [cut] Search for adsense or google adsense on Google. What currently comes up first is [cut] definitely not Google's! [cut] Claus Schmidt did a bang-up explaining this in great detail back in March. See his Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google for more on it.
Randy: The hackers will always find a way. You can patch till the end of time. When you have millions of lines of code, there's simply too much to patch.
Yahoo! mail: Sharing photos in Yahoo! Mail just got easier.
Randy: Game over! People are so stupid.
Robert Scoble: I'm unsubscribing from Chris Pirillo.
Randy: Robert says this about once every month or two. Not always about Chris and not always about partial text feeds. The result is usually a bumb in subscriptions to the person he's referring to because all the Scoblelites wants to know whats up with Chris Pirillo. In a week or two, you'll find that Scoble will again quote from Chris's blog, that is, he didn't actually unsub. Right Robert?
Today, I'm experiencing a comment SPAM attack. I've already received several hundred comments SPAMs in only the matter of a few hours. The funny thing is that my SPAM bot will pick out keywords in each of these and eventually delete them all. That said, I think I'm gonna start denying posts on entry, something I've really tried to avoid, cause you never know when a real user really means to type Texas Holdem :)
Update: A dozen lines of code eliminated that attack, but I'll keep an eye open. It was definately distributed, so I focuses on throwing a SPAM exception when I encountered certain keywords. Email me if you have trouble commenting today.
D-Lib: There are many open bookmarking tools available [35], a number of which fall loosely within the category of social bookmarking tools, by which we mean that they include some kind of a tagging or rating element. Some examples of this genre include Bag of URLs [36], BlogMarks.net [37], Dude, Check This Out! [38], Feed Me Links [39], Jots [40], Linkfilter [41], LiVEMARK [42], openBM [43], StumbleUpon [44], and Wists [45].
Randy: First mention of Dude in many months.
IEBlog: We’ve just confirmed an issue that has started to be reported on newsgroups and forums that after installing Netscape 8 the XML rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer no longer work. [cut] We currently have the following work around for people that are hitting this issue.
- Uninstall Netscape 8
- etc...
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/05/25/421763.aspx
Randy: I just thought this was so funny :-)
I'm part of this group of techie people, three dozen (37 to be exact) in total. We have a list of email and IM addresses. I thought data.
- 10 use Gmail
- 8 use Skype
- 3 use MSN MSGer
- 2 use AIM
- 1 uses mac.com
- 1 uses Yahoo! mail
- 1 uses Hotmail
- 1 uses Jabber
- 1 uses ICQ
Flickr is a real phenomenon. It's taken picture art to a new level. Whatever you want, just subscribe to it.
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Its now on the Carls Jr. Website. The commercial is pointless. Very hot! It should do very well. I have a craving for a Spicy BBQ Burger.
Channel 9's Robert Scoble does the interview with the Virtual Earth team.
coolZ0r: Randy's already posted his baton. I didn't know he was such an artist. I think it's very cool that you can get to know people a little by their
choice of music. That totally rules. Coding and Composing. How nifty.
Randy: Truth is, my coding skills derive from my music skills, which came first. I was a pianist in the works. The quick hands on the keyboard, translated well to quick hands on the keyboard. When you run octaves in sub seconds, you type code pretty quickly too! I converted from a life of poverty as a pianist to an above average income as a code monkey.
The Kissing Blog often turns up some interesting Flickr photosets. Not wife safe.
Coolz0r passed me a musical baton. Don't know exactly how this works, but here's a go.
Total Volume of Music on my Computer
0% Really! I was quite a musician as a young kid, having played the violin, viola, piano and many other instruments in concerts. When I want music, I listen to Q107 or play the piano myself. Nothing on my computer but podcasts and the stock music pre-installed with the OS.
Last CD I Purchased
Linus Torvald's Just for Fun - it was very disappointing and a few years ago.
Playing Right Now
I have an iPod, nothings playing, but I do listen to Morning Coffee Notes twice a week.
Five Songs that Meant a Lot to Me
- Everything I do - My wedding song.
- I Swear - Wife's first choice for wedding song.
- Bernadette Song - by me (original).
- Heart in Trouble - I heard this originally on the radio and completely freaked.
- Chicago II - Ya, the whole friggin' album.
Five People to Whom I am Passing the Musical Baton
...still thinking... of... Scoble, Winer, Rubel, Cory and Walker. Not final yet.
Inside Adwords is a blog by Google about Adwords. Subscribed.
Suzy Conn: Plane Crazy has been accepted into the Next Link Project at the New York Musical Theater Festival.
Randy: Congrats Suzy! For you x-Opencola iBt4iM readers, Suzy is Grad's wife.
Licks: On May 25th 2005 visit a store near you! To celebrate 25 Years of Lovin Lick's we are offering Single Scoop Cones for 25 cents!
One of the advantages of working at 724 Solutions in the early days was being able to work with Mira Jelic, an extremely smart and attractive lady.
Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) lets tweens and teenagers experience the awesome magic of Disney Theme Parks from home.
http://vmk.disney.go.com/vmk/en_US/index?name=VMKHomePage
Randy: Wow! My kids are gonna love me when I show them this.
Update: My daughter got bored while I registered and downloaded VMK. This is way too difficult for a 7-yr-old. In fact, it's way too difficult for me. Maybe somewhere in between you won't get frustrated with the stupid UI and move-on.
Canada.com: Lemontonic Inc., a networking software firm, is selling its online dating business for $15.2 million in shares of Silverback Media before merging with another company.
I'm getting enough fan mail now, that I've decided to make it a regular posting in my blog. Here goes...
iBt4iM fan: I was looking for references to David Kruglinski, as I happen to be using his book (which I picked up for $5 used) to teach myself some MFC (yes, I have Prosise and Petzold; I have not ever programmed Windows professionally). I am really enjoying Kruglinski's book, and while doing Google on him, I found your Top 20 Programming Books list. Thanks for keeping it out there! I liked how the list ranged from classic computer science texts to specific technologies (Windows, COM) to the business of technology (surprisingly #1 and #2)! I enjoyed browing your BLOG, and I have your RSS in my Firefox. Peace!
Randy: Let me answer suggested question of why I rank Geoffrey Moore's books so high. The longer I develop software, the more I come to realize that salesmen and corporate directive have a lot more to do with the success of a company than us dime-a-dozen programmers. Succeeding as a programmer involves primarily picking the right company to work for.
for Star Wars, of course.
The one social network that really works for me is Linkedin. About once every 2-3 days, I get a new contact request. I generally do a quick scan of the persons professional persona and click Accept. Over the last year about a dozen people have contacted me (beyond the initial request contact thingy) thru Linkedin. None of the contacts made me rich, but I did make a lot of friends and business opportunities, which led to meeting some interesting people. In the last month, I crossed over 100 Linkedin connections, who the hell are these people?
... from Sears.
Coming to a lab near you.
I just discovered this German blog. Subscribed. Even though I don't speak it!
The Times of India: According to some students who were present at the graduation ceremony and who fired up the issue in the blogosphere, Nooyi then reserved the remaining finger for the United States (and not North America, they say), launching into "a diatribe about how the US is seen as the middle finger to the rest of the world."
Randy: And then there's Canada. We're the sixth finger.
I think it's pretty clear already that Revenge of the Sith is one of the biggest events of the year. Forget all the lead up. Right now, people are talking about how The Sith parallels are real world.
I haven't seen the movie yet.
- ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
- confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
- woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
- chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
- cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway
- gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
- phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
- slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
- snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
- lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms
It's early, but the Suns are 9-27 from the field and 3-6 from the line (if you don't count MVP Steve Nash). Nash also has 8 of the teams 23 rebounds, 5 assists and no turnovers. The Suns are a one man show. The Mavs once again are winning the foul game, thanks to their team MVP and ref killer.
Nash (didn't play the first 6 minutes) and the entire team exploded in the 4th, especially Jim Jackson. Wow! Stoudemire had a BIG 2nd half.
Jim Jackson REALLY showed up in the 4th.
GOD: Frank, you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, thistle and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect, no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But all I see are these green rectangles.
ST. FRANCIS: It's the tribes that settled there, Lord. The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers "weeds" and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.
GOD: Grass? But it's so boring. It's not colorful. It doesn't attract butterflies, birds and bees, only grubs and sod worms. It's sensitive to temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there?
ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn.
GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.
ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it -- sometimes twice a week.
GOD: They cut it? Do they then bail it like hay?
ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly, Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.
GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?
ST. FRANCIS: No, Sir. Just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.
GOD: Now let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?
ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.
GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work.
ST. FRANCIS: You aren't going to believe this Lord. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.
GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn leaves fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. Plus, as they rot, the leaves form compost to enhance the soil. It's a natural circle of life.
ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.
GOD: No fooling? What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the soil moist and loose?
ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.
GOD: And where do they get this mulch?
ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.
GOD: Enough. I don't want to think about this anymore. St. Catherine, you're in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled for us tonight?
ST. CATHERINE: "Dumb and Dumber," Lord. It's a really stupid movie about....
GOD: Never mind. I think I just heard the whole story from St. Francis.
click image to enlargeI got 6 - Mace Windu.
You are a Supreme bad-ass Jedi who resonates with the Force. Yoda is your best mate.
If you take the test, then please put your results and taglines here in the comment for everyone to see. Thanks!
http://www.channel4.com/film/chatvotewin/microsites/F/forceometer/
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Randy: Who's Dave?
A long time ago (30 yrs) in a galaxy far, far away (radio).
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Randy: Can you say Vlickr?
Wired: Cutting to the chase, there's a lot to like about the new prequel, so much so that I don't hesitate to recommend it to both Star Wars enthusiasts and casual fans -- no matter what you thought of the last two movies. [cut] The executive summary is that Episode III is easily the best of the prequels, and it's considerably better than the bloated and nonsensical Attack of the Clones. It may even be better than Return of the Jedi.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67526,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
Randy: Another glowing review.
Sound Money Tips: Direct debit everything. Get as many bills direct-debited to your credit cards as you can, and get your credit cards direct-debited to your bank account. (For the FULL balance each month, so you never borrow money from your credit cards.) And bills that can't be direct-debited to a credit card? Get them direct debited to your bank account directly. Effect: You'll eliminate the time and stress of paying bills, ensure that you never get hit with late fees, and give yourself the maximum grace period - so you can earn interest - on every payment. (More on this, including why direct debiting to credit cards actually lowers the risk of being billed in error, in The Radical Guide to Credit Cards.)
Free shipping. No monitor. Celeron 2.4Ghz. 255 MB. 80 GB. CD-RW.
little green Jedi-Randy: I a spin shall give.
SearchEngineWatch: Karl-Friedrich Lenz has declared his blog a Google-Free Zone over concerns about Google Web Accelerator.
Randy: Begun The Content Wars Have.
Alex Scoble: Someone please come out with a search site that allows me to exclude retail sites, other search engine sites or even blogs or include any of the above.
Randy: Looks like Robert gets a lot of his smart via his genes.
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On Red Flag Deals, the rebate was USD, which comes to ~$8. Either way, it's a great deal, if you don't mind the rebate and actually get it.
Everybody hates SPAM. But not me. I like SPAM. Let me tell you the ways.
Darren Barefoot: Yesterday, a decision came down from Elections BC that blogs are a form of campaign advertising, and therefore must be registered as such.
Randy: Things that make you fart ;)
Jeff Barr: I Was Really Stupid, and Greedy Too. [cut] The offending ads are gone from the site, and I will certainly not be accepting any more ads of that nature.
http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/index.php?p=214
Randy: My new plan is to do the Wordpress/Syndigate thingy and make a whole shit load of money. Then, when I get caught, I'll simply apologize. The blogosphere will eat it up and I'll walk with the $$$.
I guess I haven't said anything about my native CDNian being named MVP. Well, trust me, iM impressed. Steve Nash is such a great guy. I saw him once, down on the Toronto riverfront. We went to play basketball, but were kicked off by Nash and other NBAers who were filming a commercial or something. I played for about 5-10 minutes beside the future MVP.
But, MVPs is not really the reason why I'm blogging. You see, there's another CDNian, playing in Europe, CDNian and also Nash. You see, if you play well and your team doesn't, then it's very likely you aren't as good as you project, Steve Carlton excluded. Did you know, Steve once won half of his team's games, pitched nearly 200 innings more than anybody else on his team, completed 30 games, struckout nearly 200 more than anybody else on this team, had more RBIs than any other pitcher had wins. Jim Nash, on the same team, was 0-8.
On the otherhand, if you sit out game 3 and your team dominates without you, then you're truly a great player.
Matt Round: Using a simple form on your site you can also offer users a personalised map and directions courtesy of Google Maps. Just modify the appropriate code snippet below to include the destination and any extra formatting markup needed.
<form action="http://maps.google.com/maps" method="get">
<p><label for="saddr">Your ZIP code</label>
<input type="text" name="saddr" id="saddr" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
<input type="hidden" name="daddr" value="[destination]" />
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en" /></p>
</form>
StealthSwitch: StealthSwitch™ [cut] instantly and completely hide[s] applications with a press of the footswitch. The applications are not just minimized…they are made completely invisible. No more minimizing applications [cut] when someone enters your office or cubicle. With a simple click of the foot switch, you can instantly hide the current window, hide all open windows, or hide all open windows except certain windows. And the best part – because the StealthSwitch™ is under your desk, no one will notice. When they leave your office, simply click the foot switch again and your programs are back just the way they were. Yet another Dave Winer cyber-stalker.
Red Flag Deals: Today only (May 12) eBay.ca and eBay.com
are holding a $0.10 Fixed Price Insertion Fee day! That means you can start a fixed price sale for only $0.10!
Randy: Wish I had advance notice on this deal. Now the entire day will be spent trying to allocate time to figure out what to do about it :(
Marc Canter: Then you use the blogosphere to launch - but you never really achieve critical mass - but that's OK. As long as Cory Doctorow or Xeni think it's cool - you're set. There's no need to achieve positive cash flow or even have more than 2 employees.
Randy: Dude.
Bookmarked for later viewing.
I haven't been able to login to groups.msn.com for about a week now. Can anybody confirm that it's broken?
PR: Yahoo! Inc. today announced the beta availability of its new music subscription service, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, providing music fans with unparalleled music listening and management functionality at incomparable value with an introductory price of just $4.99 per month.
Megan: This is wicked awesome!
| The Digerati | The Left Behind |
|---|---|
| Uses Firefox | Uses Internet Explorer |
| Knows who Doc Searls is | Already has a doctor, thanks very much |
| Uses RSS Reader | RSS? |
| Has a blog | Reads blogs (sometimes) |
| Reads BoingBoing (or Slashdot) | Watches the Tonight Show |
| Bored with Flickr | Flickr? |
| Gets news from Google | Gets news from Peter Jennings |
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/05/the_new_digital.html
Kirk Kroeker: News emerged that Dell founder and chairman Michael Dell has dropped nearly US$100 million of his own money into Red Hat.
McAfee Internet Security 2005 is FREE, AFTER MAIL-IN REBATE. And free shipping also, but only within the U.S. Since it's free, I wonder how much I would make, if you purchased using my Amazon Associate link provided below?
Coolz0r
BBC: A loophole in US law may allow people to get away with any major crime within a 50-square mile "zone of death" in western Idaho.
Randy: Now, what if you are in a plane, flying above that 50 sq mile part of Idaho?
Bovine Blog: In case you humans missed it, COWS RULE!
http://bovineunite.blogspot.com/2005/05/bovine-revolution-has-begun.html
File under online psychos. Marc claims they are making $200k/day selling virtual possessions.
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CLEAR!
**Fffzzzzork**
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Gimme 15 mills adrenaline. STAT!
**SPIKE**
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Come ON dammit! CLEAR!
**Ffrrazzzap**
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All right! We did it! We saved the blog!
Nathan Weinberg: Google isn't serving web pages faster, its serving other people's versions of the web page faster.
Randy: Sounds like the Google WebAccelerator is becoming more trouble than it's worth. Add or Remove Programs. Remove.
- Paris Hilton loses laptop containing personal photos and videos
- Paris Hilton Mobile Strip Poker
- Paris Hilton ad too hot for TV bosses
You could run an entire TV network reporting solely on the happenings of Paris Hilton.
Didn't notice.
I can hear Dave laughing from here. After several years of personal attacks directed his way from our friend, it must be really fun sitting back and watching him drown. A friend once told me of his dream of kicking his enemy out of an airplane without a parachute and placing a couple well timed last words. It's even better when they jump by themself. Maybe Bill will finally get a clue.
This test is interesting in two respects. First, the self-referential nature of the test intrigued me and I considered printing it on paper and using deduction to figure out the answers. Second, I read question #20 and realized the test is most likely bogus.
20. Standardized test is to intelligence as barometer is to
(A) temperature (only)
(B) wind-velocity (only)
(C) latitude (only)
(D) longitude (only)
(E) temperature, wind-velocity, latitude, and longitude
I'm no weather scientist, but a barometer measures atmospheric pressure, which doesn't translate to any of the above. I assume the test is a joke, but I'd love to hear otherwise. Further, I assume this is a play on the fact that standardized test doesn't necessarily measure intelligence, or something like that. It's late. Any thoughts?
37signals: Here’s the problem: Google is essentially clicking every link on the page — including links like “delete this” or “cancel that.” And to make matters worse, Google ignores the Javascript confirmations.
Joe Gregorio: Let's make this clear, Google didn't break your application, your application was broken, Google was just the first person to point it out to you.
Randy: Joe's correct, 37signals was already broken. Still, Google should have known they'd break many Web applications. A warning would have been nice. Or maybe they didn't realize where the Web Accelerator would lead us.
Today, I joined the iPod generation. Six months ago, I won the Feedster developer contest and the award was an iPod, which I received today. I could write a best selling book about the travels of this iPod. Thanks Scott Johnson and Beverly Parenti, especially Beverly, who spent a lot of time trying to get this iPod across the border.
Just noticed, my iPod is engraved with...
Feedster Hacker
Randy Charles Morin
fantomNews: Here’s a page you can display to people who you are restricting from accessing your site because they’re using Google’s nefarious spyware.
Randy: The Web wars have begun. Here we have Google playing god and knocking Syndic8 out of their index. Meanwhile, others upset with Google are blocking the Google Web Accelerator. I'm not defending Syndic8 and Google's Web Accelerator is not the worse malware in the world. I'm just noting a lot of people are blocking each other.
For starters, change your attitude.
Balmer: Microsoft will continueto join other leading companies in supporting federal legislation that wouldprohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.[cut] Given the importance ofdiversity to our business, it is appropriate for the company to endorselegislation that prohibits employment discrimination on all of these grounds.Obviously, the Washington State legislative session has concluded for thisyear, but if legislation similar to HB 1515 is introduced in future sessions,we will support it.
Eric Case: To make the Google Blog a bit easier to manage behind the scenes, we're now publishing it to its new home at Blogspot: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/.
Randy: If you do a query for blog moved on blogspot.com, u get 700k hits. Three years ago, everybody was located at radio.weblogs.com, including me. As the performance became intolerable, everybody jumped to blogger.com. Now the performance is becoming intolerable at blogger.com and everyone is jumping elsewhere again. Except Google Blog, for obvious reasons.
Howstuffworks: NEVER look down the "barrel" of a lightsaber, even if you are "sure" it is in safe mode.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm
Randy: Now you know how Jedi Master Toofun died.
Om Malik: 05.05.05 comes only once in 1000 years.
Randy: Does anybody agree with this statement?
GoogleBlog: Dear Sergey and Larry, I want to extend my personal congratulations to you both on your election to the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
click photo to visit BoingBoing and read about this.Surfarama: I was kind of surprised to see that Syndic8.com is hosting a bunch of ‘articles’ designed specifically for serving Google Adsense text ads and to take advantage of Syndic8’s good pagerank.
Randy: It'll be interesting to watch this one play out.
RedFlagDeals.com: Until May 7, you can get $5 off a food purchase of $10 or more at Casey’s Bar and Grill with the coupon you will find by clicking this link!
CP: Revenue rose to $787,702. [cut] Under a five-year merchant licence deal signed with Bell Canada last year, the company earned licence fees of $500,000 in the quarter.
Randy: Very signicant that you can earn a $500k from one customer, $290k from everyone else in the known universe and spend $3m in three months. This is starting to sound a lot like 724.
Google: Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make your web pages load faster, including:
- Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
- Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
- Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
- Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
- Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
- Compressing data before sending it to your computer.
http://webaccelerator.google.com/
Randy: I've noticed that some authenticated Websites, like FeedBurner, don't seem to work when the accelerator is turned on.
Sylvia Paull: Today is Dave Winer's (50th) birthday. [cut] both know firsthand that life is too short for hate, that great ideas and energy can drive people to new heights, and that the best way to love is to share your soul with everyone else on this planet. Thank you, Daves. I love you both and wish you many, many more happy birthdays.
Kosso: Happy Daveday!
Randy: As resident moron of the blogosphere, I deem today Daveday!
Chronicle: When Laura Bush wisecracked at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner on Saturday night that she was a "desperate housewife" married to a president who was always sound asleep by 9 p.m., the popular first lady accomplished two things.
Randy: If anybody has video of her stand-up routine, then I'd appreciate a URL. Watched it on CNN and it was funny beyond...
Today was a bad day for me in Windows-land...
Don Park is turning 43 and is one of the all-around great guys of the Blogosphere.
Dave Winer is turning 50 and wants more Google Juice. He invented RSS, SOAP and the kitchen sink. That last invention makes me suspect he's lying about his age.
My OLDER brother turns 37 this week too. Much of my family will turn one year older in the next 6 weeks. It starts today with my son's B-day party, but also celebrating will be my father, oldest sister, my youngest daughter and of course, me.
Don't click on the fullscreen version. It'll ask you to install malware (a.k.a. iEverything).