GoogL'ost looks more Klingon than GoogleLost. Either way, it's far more entertaining than "Stray find of the day" and less likely to prompt a call from the nice barristers @ Google.
So here's my GoogL'ost du Jour:
As if by accident (I was trying to find the new Google: Search by Location feature), I wandered across the Google Weblog, and was summarily transfixed for hours. Then, once I started using Search by Location (okay, so it's in beta test) I stumbled across Smoke Free World (while looking for bowling resources near my home). This is not how I found B.A.D. Bowling (BAD = Bowling for Architects and Designers -- it's a group of bowlers in NYC). For that, I looked for the phrase "Bowling for Dummies" !!
Sunday, October 12
Saturday, October 11
Gadu-Gadu! Umgawa!
It's sad that Instant Messaging [IM] client applications like Trillian and Gaim (see below) have to play cat-and-mouse with the IM providers (MSN, Yahoo!, IRC, ICQ and AOL). The providers want you to use their client software (presumably so they can push advertising content), but this means that the user usually has to run a separate application for each provider. Well, the latest patch for (the free) Trillian Basic (to handle the latest Yahoo! and MSN protocols) is now available on the Trillian downloads site. Trillian allows you to run one client (instead of five) to do instant messaging. Trillian Basic doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the individual clients have, but it sure is nice not having to run 5 applications to do instant messaging. I'm not sure how many whistles or bells you get if you upgrade to Trillian Pro.
Trivia: www.trillian.cc is Cerulean Studios' web site .. and cc is the top level domain for (drum roll) the Cocos Islands - Keelings.
Speaking of IM clients, What Is Gaim?: "Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks."
I traded some IMs with Tony (an ex-boss) on Thursday; he's still doing Linux at Linux Networx. Rock on, Tony.
Meanwhile, Wayne (ex-roommate in Chicago) IM'd me to say that he's off to Seoul, via Seattle. This after being home only 5 days from a jaunt to Italy, France and the UK. Travel is glamorous, Wayne.
Trivia: www.trillian.cc is Cerulean Studios' web site .. and cc is the top level domain for (drum roll) the Cocos Islands - Keelings.
Speaking of IM clients, What Is Gaim?: "Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks."
I traded some IMs with Tony (an ex-boss) on Thursday; he's still doing Linux at Linux Networx. Rock on, Tony.
Meanwhile, Wayne (ex-roommate in Chicago) IM'd me to say that he's off to Seoul, via Seattle. This after being home only 5 days from a jaunt to Italy, France and the UK. Travel is glamorous, Wayne.
Essay question: so what is food?
North Texas Food Bank is aligned with America's Second Harvest (one of the better-run charities, according to the American Institute of Philanthropy). Food banks don't accept beer, which is probably just fine with the Beer Can Collectors of America. If I was a dog or cat, I might want to shop at Natural Life Pet Products.
Friday, October 10
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
just to show that not all stupidity is confined to the Deep South: Illinois Parents Sue School Over Wireless Network (if only they had known about the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie). This would be a better world if people would take a few minutes to understand how stuff works, rather than running off at the mouth with a new conspiracy theory!
EPC (Electronic Product Code, aka Auto-ID) will replace the UPC (Uniform Product Code) barcode labels that adorn everything sold in retail. RFID is a subset of Auto-ID, er .. EPC.
RFID Privacy reports (on their blog) : "Texas Instruments has developed an RFID chip that can survive dry cleaning" (true); conspiracy theorists say this means that The Guverrmint [sic] will be tracking all of us, all the time.
Heck, The Government can't even get rid of the quaint $1 bill (paper) and move us to a $1 coin. The cash registers would then be free to put $2 bills where they store $1 bills now. Why is this so difficult? Ditto goes for the move to the metric system. We seem to be able to handle 2 Liter bottles of soda, but precious little else metric: go figure.
Message from GeneBob to The Government: Just Do It.
BTW, here's my reaction to RFID tags in clothing: conspiracy theorists don't bathe/clean their clothes now, so how will this change anything? They think that showering in chlorinated water renders them sterile!
The web is full of conspiracy theorists (thanks be to free speech), including the Stop RFID web site and CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (who want to ban those wonderful loyalty cards). There is even a site with anti-RFID Bumper Stickers; I haven't seen a real one yet (and hopefully never will). This is not an endorsement of any of these conspiracy theorists (I find the bulk of them trivial and very foolish).
EPC (Electronic Product Code, aka Auto-ID) will replace the UPC (Uniform Product Code) barcode labels that adorn everything sold in retail. RFID is a subset of Auto-ID, er .. EPC.
RFID Privacy reports (on their blog) : "Texas Instruments has developed an RFID chip that can survive dry cleaning" (true); conspiracy theorists say this means that The Guverrmint [sic] will be tracking all of us, all the time.
Heck, The Government can't even get rid of the quaint $1 bill (paper) and move us to a $1 coin. The cash registers would then be free to put $2 bills where they store $1 bills now. Why is this so difficult? Ditto goes for the move to the metric system. We seem to be able to handle 2 Liter bottles of soda, but precious little else metric: go figure.
Message from GeneBob to The Government: Just Do It.
BTW, here's my reaction to RFID tags in clothing: conspiracy theorists don't bathe/clean their clothes now, so how will this change anything? They think that showering in chlorinated water renders them sterile!
The web is full of conspiracy theorists (thanks be to free speech), including the Stop RFID web site and CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (who want to ban those wonderful loyalty cards). There is even a site with anti-RFID Bumper Stickers; I haven't seen a real one yet (and hopefully never will). This is not an endorsement of any of these conspiracy theorists (I find the bulk of them trivial and very foolish).
Wednesday, October 8
Please to give me your fish!
The Multi-Babel Translator could be addictively funny. I had some entertaining results when I used the best advertising slogans as input. Here are some before-and-after results:
Generosity: It advanced as rapidly as possible of récolteuse
started as:
Bounty: The quicker picker-upper
If ciao sufficient, the end to transmit the thing more better possible
started as:
When you care enough to send the very best
The brown express of Vixen jumps in the inactive dog.
started as:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The hour is the hour, of the way this that comes all the good men with their country.
started as:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Two all cattles small of cakes, special, insalata sauce main one, cheese, have goodses with the vinegar, clear bulbs of the inscatolato in a Sesamsamenbrioche.
started as:
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun
(a Big Mac from McDonald's)
Noninterests that one; They do not know, where it was.
started as (thanks, Dave!):
Don't touch that; you don't know where it has been.
Marks of the time to slip further on like arrow; the flies with the fruit appreciate a banana.
started as (thanks, Dave!):
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
If inner of you that you do not create, the probabilities are that the nobody different one that.
started as (thanks, Walter!):
If you don't believe in yourself, chances are that nobody else will.
and finally:
The relative the first complete day as automati of regolators selects to us, of those who the secret, that it expresses itself of Schwarzenegger D ' Arnold, that would give the form to transistion without the joint to the office of rifle automatic of the regolator, but if the new detail of aucuns in the direction, within them, the defects of California molded to ossequio.
started as (thanks, Associated Press!):
On his first full day as governor elect, Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed confidence that he would make a seamless transition to the governor's office, but provided no new specifics on how he plans to cure California's ills.
Generosity: It advanced as rapidly as possible of récolteuse
started as:
Bounty: The quicker picker-upper
If ciao sufficient, the end to transmit the thing more better possible
started as:
When you care enough to send the very best
The brown express of Vixen jumps in the inactive dog.
started as:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The hour is the hour, of the way this that comes all the good men with their country.
started as:
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
Two all cattles small of cakes, special, insalata sauce main one, cheese, have goodses with the vinegar, clear bulbs of the inscatolato in a Sesamsamenbrioche.
started as:
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun
(a Big Mac from McDonald's)
Noninterests that one; They do not know, where it was.
started as (thanks, Dave!):
Don't touch that; you don't know where it has been.
Marks of the time to slip further on like arrow; the flies with the fruit appreciate a banana.
started as (thanks, Dave!):
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
If inner of you that you do not create, the probabilities are that the nobody different one that.
started as (thanks, Walter!):
If you don't believe in yourself, chances are that nobody else will.
and finally:
The relative the first complete day as automati of regolators selects to us, of those who the secret, that it expresses itself of Schwarzenegger D ' Arnold, that would give the form to transistion without the joint to the office of rifle automatic of the regolator, but if the new detail of aucuns in the direction, within them, the defects of California molded to ossequio.
started as (thanks, Associated Press!):
On his first full day as governor elect, Arnold Schwarzenegger expressed confidence that he would make a seamless transition to the governor's office, but provided no new specifics on how he plans to cure California's ills.
Tuesday, October 7
Titanic
Perseus - The Blogging Iceberg says that the majority of blogs are abandoned after 2 months. Does this mean that most people only have 2 months (or less) worth of stuff to say? Hmm.
Coming this weekend: 8th annual ArmeniaFest
should I invest in a GutterHelmet™? It seems a better approach than leaf screens (I got a bid for each: leaf screens are 25% the cost of a GutterHelmet). I suspect this is one of those "you get what you pay for" issues. In my old age (!) I have learned that it is possible to throw your money away on Cheap Stuff That Just Doesn't Work.
Coming this weekend: 8th annual ArmeniaFest
should I invest in a GutterHelmet™? It seems a better approach than leaf screens (I got a bid for each: leaf screens are 25% the cost of a GutterHelmet). I suspect this is one of those "you get what you pay for" issues. In my old age (!) I have learned that it is possible to throw your money away on Cheap Stuff That Just Doesn't Work.
Any excuse for a party ...
1998 was the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement. I wandered across the legacy98.org web site, which includes A Short History of the Movement. The "Short History" is 10 pages long! I once heard (never substantiated) that the average woman uses 7x as many words in a day as the average man.
Mostly unrelated: a memorable piece on Comedy Central's The Man Show when Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla setup a booth with a petition to "Stop Women's Suffrage" .. it was amazing how many women signed the petition, when Jimmy and Adam explained that they were "just trying to end women having to suffrage".
I hope the California Recall/Governor's Election goes smoothly. I considered taking one of Sky High Airlines flights, but didn't.
Mostly unrelated: a memorable piece on Comedy Central's The Man Show when Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla setup a booth with a petition to "Stop Women's Suffrage" .. it was amazing how many women signed the petition, when Jimmy and Adam explained that they were "just trying to end women having to suffrage".
I hope the California Recall/Governor's Election goes smoothly. I considered taking one of Sky High Airlines flights, but didn't.
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