I was lucky enough to catch this image … with a touch of editing, courtesy of Google’s Picasa, and adding a lomo view, voila! I may bitch about Google’s Search Engine, from time to time, but their other tools are quite decent.
I’ve been using Gmail for quite a while (would you like an invite,… drop me a line?). It’s really quite a good system, though I’ve had difficulty getting used to several features. There’s quite a difference between Yahoo! mail and Gmail… No folders… Gmail uses labels Archive function … helps to clean out your inbox…
Google Wave is a new phenomenon from Google that aims to supplement other modes of synchronous/non-synchronous discussion such as chat or forums. This is what Wikipedia says: “Google Wave is designed as a new Internet communications platform. It is written in Java using OpenJDK and its web interface uses the Google Web Toolkit. Google Wave…
If it’s legitimate… and we’ve all seen the ads promising MAs and Ph.Ds for just signing your name… when universities start providing online courses, sometimes it’s difficult to separate the pretenders from the real deal. In fact, so few traditional schools do online education because of quality concerns for the students’ education. Many traditionalists feel…
Tonight’s light exercise: quick garbage trip, pick up the calendar from Klaus Bardenhagen which arrived today, bike trip to Guandu, and jog back. Then to 7 to pay bills for October. $10K flies out the door. Geez. Google says two different numbers for the run back. 3K or 2K. I’m going to go closer to…