What’s wrong with this picture? The green line represents the fastest way to get from the peninsula to the north bay. Usually, the shortest distance between two lines is a straight line; not when San Francisco is involved. We went up to Bodega Bay today and this was the route we took. The alternative was …
“‘Cool’ would be the last thing someone would use to describe me as I sit here on a Saturday night, quilting in my pajamas.” — Anne, my ultra-cool wife
Just last night I talked about video search and how if Google did it, it would be all over the news. Today, exactly that happened. Google announced a video seach product that doesn’t even search videos, but just closed captioning (poorly I must add) and it gets all kinds of press. A search for Yahoo …
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ABC decided to change their schedule this year so that Alias is opposite The West Wing. That’s unfortunate because we watch them both. What’s one to do? One week we TiVo’d one while watching the other live. We found that we’ve become quite unaccustomed to live TV though. We found the commercials very annoying and …
So Yahoo’s got a Desktop Search product, joining Google, Microsoft and others. It’s pretty good. It takes a while to start up, but searches are quite fast. These tools are of limited use for me since most of my data is not on my desktop (or laptop), but stored on some server somewhere. What would …
I’m a self-admitted emailaholic. But something strange has happened recently. I turned off my email. Thunderbird doesn’t seem to like it when I switch from the wired network to the wireless network, so I end up having to quit and restart it. The thing is that sometimes I forget to start it back up again. …
I saw this on Google today: Advertising Programs – Business Solutions – About Google ©2004 Google – Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages Google thinks it’s still 2004. Maybe it’s time to use a search engine from this half-decade. If firefox didn’t keep switchhing my search bar to Google, I might not have ever noticed. I wonder …