Dec - 15th
Heavenly Google
Posted at 3:58 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Oh, how I try to hate Google; but then the giant does something so terrific, so out-of-the-ordinary,so unexpected, that you just have to give them props. Google Maps now includes ski lifts and trails...
Image: Google
Dec - 15th
Dot-Me
Posted at 1:03 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Inspired by a heated discussion at work today -- on the topic of Jason Kendall, no less, the worst player in Oakland A's history; I think I won that debate -- I am thinking of starting a baseball-themed website.
Unfortunately, every domain known to man has been squatted, so I was left with either thenineteenthbestbaseballwebsite-dot-com or [...]
Dec - 12th
Superbas
Posted at 11:47 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Take that, Wikipedia...
Image: Google
Dec - 5th
Posted at 11:15 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I've been thinking about email a lot lately (I almost wrote "alot;" that would have been a disaster). What it means to me, how I interact with it, how does it fit in my future plans, what is next for this medium. In fact, I've been thinking about email too much.
I've had a lot of [...]
Oct - 2nd
Google 2001
Posted at 12:29 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
For a limited time, Google is allowing people to search their oldest archive -- from 2001 -- and wouldn't you know it: ReyCorp exists (well, in theory, at least)...
Image: Google
I am not sure if I should be proud of this, but I sort-of am. (Please note that the second search result does not refer to [...]
Sep - 30th
Laura Bush Killed A Guy
Posted at 8:50 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
Thank you, Family Guy...
Image: Google
This is for those who caught this past Sunday's episode (which you can conveniently watch on Hulu*).
* Hulu, by the way, is the best piece of evidence proving Michael Arrington's (aka, TechCrunch) idiocy and insignificance.
Sep - 25th
Loose Ends
Posted at 2:29 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I've taken on the task of cutting some loose ends of myself around the web. Over the years, I have sampled a lot of services, most of them junk. Plenty of them were not worth re-visiting, and despite a username/password, there is nothing really there. Elsewhere, however, I have personal information of photos or videos [...]
Sep - 15th
Fixing the Airlines
Posted at 10:30 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I wrote this post during my flight, including the a-hrefs.
As I sit in seat 19D -- aisle, thank you -- on my Continental flight to New Orleans, I have realized something: the airlines are not capitalizing on all of the space available for advertisements. In other words, if Google ran an airline (I am not [...]
Aug - 12th
GMail
Posted at 9:05 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
GMail was down for roughly an hour yesterday -- which is like forever in internet speed and time. Google, the super-evil company that runs the service, eventually apologized. But that did give me an excuse to play off the ordeal with my Facebook status...
Jeffrey needs to learn to cope without gmail.
Jeffrey is learning to cope [...]
Jun - 27th
Blogger No More (Officially)
Posted at 3:18 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
As readers have already been informed, I switched over from Blogger to WordPress a few months ago, and although I still have the template to work on (trust me, it's coming), I have been able to straighten out most of the stuff behind the scenes. I have built* myself a series of hefty .htaccess documents [...]
Jan - 31st
Currently Reading
Posted at 3:16 pm | Filed Under Reading
I've finished The Fourth Bear, a truly interesting book. My wife picked it up and read a couple pages while waiting for me, and she continues to give me strange looks as a result. It is purely fantastical, which was welcome during this heated election season, but it was more of a children's book than [...]
Jan - 29th
Mailbag: The Sixth Sense Of Politics
Posted at 3:27 pm | Filed Under Mailbag
What I like most about my readers is the support I receive from them. I float a lot of opinions, many of them somewhat controversial, but through thick and thin, there are my faithful readers, behind me the entire way...
see your still undecided huh???? being a buffalo underdog guy.....i'm expecting your gonna see the light [...]
Nov - 8th
Earth Redefined
Posted at 4:45 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
It is somewhat unsettling that the first two results for a Google search of earth are links to download Google Earth, and the third is the Wikipedia entry for our endangered planet.
Where has all the meaning gone in the wonderful digital information age?
I should note, however, that I googled earth so I could download Google [...]
Nov - 2nd
In the News
Posted at 9:09 am | Filed Under In the News
The Friday edition.
- I usually don't have respect for murderers, besides OJ Simpson (he is just so lovable in those Naked Gun films), but one has to respect the audacity of Scott Peterson's request to collect on his wife's life insurance policy. I really need to go to law school to take advantage of this [...]
Oct - 9th
In the News
Posted at 8:57 pm | Filed Under In the News
It has been awhile. And my ass hurts.
- The greatest republican president (no, Lincoln doesn't count) on presidential aspirant Fred Thompson: "He's dumb as hell." I hope they cryogenically froze Nixon, just like Disney.
- Hillary's everyone-gets-a-401k-plan idea is good, but her baby bond idea was even better.
- The Bush administration's decision to leak the Osama [...]
Sep - 13th
In the News
Posted at 8:43 am | Filed Under In the News
- MoveOn.org apparently paid less for ad space in the New York Times than conservative groups. This has upset the conservatives to no end, and they "demand the same ad rate [that MoveOn.org] paid." Someone get a textbook, teach the conservatives the laws of supply and demand.
- Speaking of MoveOn.org's now infamous ad -- I [...]
Sep - 7th
In the News
Posted at 9:20 am | Filed Under In the News
- The economy lost a few thousand jobs this past month, even though economists "were forecasting payrolls to grow by 110,000." (Just more proof that economists don't know anything.)
- Does anyone else think that a Google phone's OS would consist of several blue links over a white background, and maybe a revolving logo around the [...]
Aug - 31st
In the News… Short And Sweet!!!
Posted at 9:45 am | Filed Under In the News
- No more snowballing the press. Back to Fox News, I guess.
- Senate democrats are looking to regain their footing on ending the war in Iraq. Where have the democrats been on the Iraq war issue? Oh yea, all over the place.
- Google's attempts to use San Francisco as a testing ground for new technologies [...]
Aug - 22nd
In the News
Posted at 8:29 am | Filed Under In the News
- The president feels free to compare the Iraq war quagmire with the Vietnam war quagmire since he hasn't sacrificed in either.
- Google will finally introduce ads to YouTube, which only makes financial sense, really.
- A CIA report says that former director and Presidential Medal of Honor recipient George Tenet "held accountable for their failure [...]
Aug - 15th
In the News
Posted at 8:58 am | Filed Under In the News
- Google is now offering Sun's StarOffice for free, a $70 value, in the latest battle with Microsoft and their stranglehold on office productivity software. (By the way, I hate Outlook.)
- How long will the religious right allow Romney to continuously sway on the abortion issue, "from the 'effectively pro-choice' position he held until July [...]