Archive for the 'Geekdom' Category

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 [...]

Google Talk

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

First there was the Google search engine . . .
Next there was Gmail . . .
Now there is Talk . . . and it is good!
Google Talk is live (a day early even) if you have a Jabber capable instant messenger client installed.
Information on how to access Google Talk can be found here.
I’m [...]

Another Hit From Google

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

I am a loyal Froogle user, but I’ve always wanted a clean way to do price comparisons while I was standing in the store. Looks like Goggle as released Froogle on the Go, formatted for your mobile phone screen. Now I’ll know just how much I would have saved . . . If [...]

Speaking of Insanity . . .

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

From CNN: Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops
A group of people numbering in the thousands waited in line for hours to purchase $50 used Apple iBooks from the Henrico County school system. These were laptops issued to students (so you know what kind of shape they were likely in). Now these were [...]

I think hell has frozen over!

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

While I was not surprised at the Mac/Intel announcement of recent days, I was actually expecting it . . . this one has caught me by surprise!
Apple Releases the “Mighty Mouse”
Leave it to Apple to figure out how to make a multi-button mouse . . . that has NO BUTTONS!!
The $49 dollar mouse is a [...]

Things That Make You Go Hmmm . . .

Friday, July 29th, 2005

So if you’ve never attended a DEFCON convention . . . well, to sum it up . . . it’s interesting. Half hacker geek fest, half counter-culture fetish extravaganza. It’s not to be missed if you find yourself in Las Vegas at the end of July.
The thing that caught my eye as suspicious [...]


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