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I Love Google

This is the first of a three part series on my thoughts about the search giant Google. I definitely have a love/hate thing going on with them. I thought it was appropriate to start with love. Parts two and three will be published within the next couple of weeks. My first experience with Google came [...]

Craigslist Scammers

I’ve listed a couple of things on Craigslist recently. I generally prefer selling on Craigslist because its free, but you do have to deal with scammers. Generally my policy is to avoid them, but this week I decided to let the story play out just to see what happens. The “person” that wants to buy [...]

Secure Gmail

Do you use Gmail? You know how when you log in its a secure connection, but then when you get to your mailbox its NOT secure? That always bugged me, but I didn’t think there was anything to be done about it. Yahoo is the same way, you log in over a secure page, but [...]

Darth Scooter

I spent a few minutes surfing YouTube on a study break this morning. This cracks me up. I wonder what we’ll see next? R2-K9? Boba Fetch? Chew-bacca? Jaba the Mutt? Wow, this post went south in a hurry, didn’t it? I’ll stop now.

Happy Clever Valentine

Okay, so today is St. Valentine’s day. I’m pretty busy, but in the midst of activity I’m thinking of my sweetheart as often as possible. I had to look something up, so I dutifully pulled up Google. At the time I wasn’t thinking of any particular holiday, so was amused to see today’s doodle. I [...]

The Knack

While I’m posting YouTube videos, I’ll post another. Tonight I was working on homework with a couple of other students. We took a break for a minute and showed each other some videos. Dilbert doesn’t always do it for me, but this one cracked me up. Okay, back to work. I still have two chapters [...]

Non Smoker

I started smoking at an early age. My parents both smoked at the time, so I guess I just wanted to be like them. I can remember liking candy cigarettes when I was a kid, and getting busted for smoking when I was about 8 or 9. I took up the habit for real when [...]

Fraudulent eBay Transactions

I’ve been a computer and internet fan for most of my life. My very first email address was through Compuserve (remember them?), and it was something like 241587459. There wasn’t any @ at that time, because I could only send email to other Compuserve subscribers. When the internet became popular, I was there, on my [...]

Google Maps Blunders

Edit 1/11/2007 – some of these blunders have been fixed now. Google took the levitating car out of the picture, for instance. Some of these are now links to boring images. I just came across a list of what could be considered Google Maps Easter Eggs. These are anomalies in the images. Some are funny, [...]

Pale Blue Dot

In my surfing this week, I checked Micah‘s blog, and came across the expression “pale blue dot”, in the description of a photo that he linked to. Its used in reference to Earth. Its a pretty compelling term, because it reduces this complex world to a single color and small shape. A day or so [...]