On the right you can find a Car factory, probably the only visible corporate logo in google maps:
BMW museum
Just added six more views to BlogsNow. Most of the Version 1 views are back now.
And then some.
see for your self
Violence in games is a good thing is the title. And it is written by a person who went to Columbine.
This get’s people to read it. I don’t see an satisfactory argument for the claim of the title in the text. But it illustrates a couple of aspects about gaming. And that makes it worth the read: Games are what is surrounding young people. If you grew up a while ago like me you have no idea what that really means.
if you are in a different country, then google really really wants to show your their localized version. Which has different search results and, for my purposes, pretty much does suck.
Adib< /a> pointed me a while back to this fix: http://www.google.com/ncr will fix the problem and let’s me use google.com even if I am not in dot-com-land. Phew.
OK, it’s a myth that Mr G. claimed that. But a nice myth.
Next stop for Al: reinventing TV, by prooving that viewers are not needed.
Next stop for George: Breaking the net, by brute forcing the control of the DNS root servers and then messing it all up. Finally we will have those internets that he has been talking about. Some
that work and others that don’t.
4:20 this morning. The computer that runs BlogsNow freezes.
Not the first time, but it was doing ok in the last 2 months.
Tricky problem to fix: The error frequncy is so low that you would know after a year or two if a change fixed the issue or if you just were lucky. Sigh.
Good thing: mysql and it’s wonderful mysqlcheck auto repair.
Does in minutes what took days on the old server.
The article does not say what version and which circumstances.
But yes: if you would find an unopened PC box from 2001 somewhere, open it and connect it to the internet then it would melt.
This will be interesting to watch. What will they do?
Review all things again?
Turn It off?
video.google: one of these projects that became a problem I would guess. It is unsurprising: When I discussed things them they seemed to have not a real understanding about the world out there. I had some concerns about hosting contents. And they basically had no answers. Nor did they seem to understand the problem. Those were in my case no copyright related. I think that
google is just a bunch of engineers that can not look further than beyond the warm and fuzzy feeling that they made something work. Which they do. And often is amazing. I love them for that.
But it also does not surprise me that they release something as immature as video.google. Any new company would be dead from day one if they would behave like video.google has so far.
I would go back to “Independence the movie” when that Alien presses the unshaved scientiest against the glas. And answer along those lines “I want you to go out of business”.
Sorry, but Microsoft left this really bad trail in the history of technology while they could. I don’t see why we should tolerate their existence. Once the power game has flipped against them. Which has not happened yet. OK, Longhorn is the most unexiciting Operating System annonuncement. They needed to through something like RSS in. Which is pathetic:
RSS is one potential way of letting information flow. The point is that information wants to just do that: flow. Now we have the bandwidth, and there will be more tools. But putting RSS into the OS is like making a car that can perform really well when you drive around an New York intersection. RSS is ok right, I hope it will be replaced added on by the people quickly for whatever direction it needs to go. Nice for M$ to come up with the Version 2. Those Microsoft ‘standards’ are bad enough if it comes to web pages. I think they really caused enough harm for one company. Right now they should just merge with Sun and look inwards for synergy for ten yours or so, till they are both history.
BlogsNow got it’s first ‘special view’ today. I mentioned it before, but this is the first sign of it: I rewrote BlogsNow in Version 2 also to be able to whip up quick views that I feel might be interesting. Google Maps is an amazing web application. And, of course all the images being out there people will find interesting views and share them in their blogs. BlogsNow simply lists the most prominent ones. As usual millions of bloggers will collect some collective filter that is somewhat interesting. Since longitude and latitude coordinates do not mean much to most of us, I listed the closest airports instead.