Month: July 2007

Google Docs vs. Microsoft Office

It was at that point that I basically said “screw these freshly installed desktop applications on this brand new notebook… I’ll just use Google Docs to compose the damned blog post.” You can understand my state of mind, already having invested far too much time in what should be an appliance that does what I need. And you know what? It worked quite nicely.

wherein jeremy likes gdocs

Zombie institutions

Most institutions today are Zombies. What do I mean by this? I mean that they have bodies. They have thoughts. Superficially, they look human. They can move around, talk and eat you but they are not alive. They have no feedback mechanisms. They are closed systems. They have exceptionally limited ability to sense what is going on inside and outside.

Bourne Ultimatum spam

Google started showing a blue box result promoting their iGoogle homepage which received a game for the Bourne Ultimatum movie. A gimmick like this blue box, which was showing for a variety of search terms like bourne ultimatum or jason bourne (some of which, but not all, have now been removed), was likely also aimed to add extra hotness to the movie – in return, Google got a product placement in the movie (someone’s seen using a Google search engine as “part of a promotional partnership with Google that did not involve any money changing hands”; not money, but goods, apparently).

more dumb marketing.

Mars Dust Storm

For nearly a month, a series of severe Martian summer dust storms has affected the rover Opportunity and, to a lesser extent, its twin, Spirit. The dust in the Martian atmosphere over Opportunity has blocked 99% of direct sunlight to the rover, leaving only the limited diffuse sky light to power it. Scientists fear the storms might continue for several days, if not weeks.

i was just wondering how long those rover tracks would last.