Monday, December 19, 2005

Tip

When washing your car in 24 degree weather always, always use the automatic car washes.  Under no circumstances should one wash their car at a car wash by hand.  This is even more true when the wind is blowing at about 6 mph and the car stall acts like a wind tunnel and it's so cold that the soap has frozen in the tube for the brush.

Not that I would ever do something that stupid of course.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

Google and AOL

I never really "got" AOL.  It always felt to me like they were dumbing down the internet for people too stupid or unwilling to learn how to surf the web - though I could be wrong.  I can see where Google benefits from AOL using Google as their search engine - that part of this new 1 billion dollar deal is understandable.  But what urks me is this:

Google.com will promote AOL programming on the right side of its page under the "sponsored links" heading.

If AOL wants to pay Google through their normal Ad Words then fine but I really don't want to constantly be subjected to a stupid AOL ad.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Is it just me or does Google really suck lately?

Google, in all their billionaire-ness, has, in my opinion only come out with 3 good products.  Search, Gmail, and Maps.  Everything else is crap.

Custom Homepage API
Google has created an api that allows you to build a module for the Google custom homepage.  Now, I think that would be cool if you could create your own module - then just use it.  But you have to submit your module and, if lucky enough, Google will put it in the directory.  I guess I just really don't like a custom home page - takes too long to load.  So I really don't see how this is cool.

Google Reader
This is crap on so many levels I don't even know where to start.

Gmail WebClips
Gmail is one of the 3 things they did right.  Don't screw it up by adding useless crap like WebClips.  The name is even stupid.

Gmail
When is this going to come out of beta?  It's been like 2 years.  I'm really looking forward to what Yahoo and Microsoft are going to come out with.  Microsoft is already showing signs of moving ahead of Gmail.

Google Calendar
There was a big rumor several days ago about Google announcing a calendar.  That date has come and gone with no calendar but I'm not that sorry.  Based on past launches (see Google Reader) I'm almost dreading what Google is going to come up with.

Google Answers
I have to pay to get a question answered?  What kind of crap is that!  Yahoo's is much better.

Blogger
By now, Google should have changed Blogger up a bit to give it's users more functionality. Granted, I can fully edit the template - but I want categories, stats, multiple pages, etc.  (Note: Blogger's editor really sucks too.  I had to make a change to this post and it totally screwed it up and I had to delete/repost)

Beta/Alpha
I'm tired of hearing about beta products.  If a multi-billion dollar company can't launch a product without tagging it with beta then go away.

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Saturday, December 10, 2005

Delicious is down

I don't really like the fact that Yahoo bought them.  Delicious's outage this morning just makes for a real nice omen.

To: Blogger - Fix your Atom feed!

Blogger's Atom feed runs on version 0.3 while FeedValidator is now validating version 1.0.  Consequently if you use a feed service such as FeedBurner you'll get error messages every now and then.

Monday, December 05, 2005