Archive for September, 2005

The Great Google Tells All

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

The great global brain that is Google tells all again . . .
A quick search for the word “failure” has a surprising top result.
EDIT 08/13: In the event that “someone” requests a change in page rank . . . I’ll link directly to the current top result for the word failure.
Interesting . . . and [...]

Microsoft Gadgets

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

From the Microsoft Gadgets Blog comes a discussion of Microsoft’s upcoming feature “Gadgets”
From the site:
“What are Gadgets? Gadgets are a new category of mini-application designed to provide information, useful lookup, or enhance an application or service on your Windows PC or the Web. Examples might include a weather gadget running on your desktop or on [...]

Wealth?

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

How can we be the richest country in the world, yet have the most debt of any nation on earth?
Charging today what you can’t afford . . . let alone pay off tomorrow, has never made someone wealthy . . . it usually leads to bankruptcy.
Someone needs to take the charge card away from the [...]

The New, New Deal

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

While watching the news this evening I was struck by a single topic . . . a topic that seemed to be on each of the newscasters minds . . . where were the masses of unskilled to under skilled workers going to find jobs once the relocation and resettlement of people from hurricane stricken [...]

Freaking Lamers

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Open Letter to all the Children on the Internet:
Learn to spell!
L8 does not spell “Late” . . .
U is spelled Y..O..U . . .
Y is not an acceptable substitute for the word “why” . . .
N cannot stand in for the words “in” or “and” . . .
It’s not acceptable to substitute 2 for “to” [...]

I just turned on the TiVo . . .

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

and was greeted by a new message from DirecTV. They have activated channel 100 via satellite to distribute hurricane relief information. What really caught my eye was the scroll along the lower quarter of the screen. There is a continuous stream of messages from individuals and families seeking missing loved ones . [...]


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