“Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions.”
Posted in google on Sep 5th, 2008
WARNING: Google installs Google Update without telling you.
Nice job Google. See update at bottom.
.. back to our regularly scheduled post
Toon it up!
Huh? Yea, exactly my reaction. You just have to wonder who the target audience is for this. Google has decided that we are all so stupid, we need ‘toon-age!
Posted in google on Sep 3rd, 2008
They say it will set the world on fire. Hmm, not so much.
Google Chrome is available here.
It’s essentially a FireFox addon, a chrome addon. It’s slick, but I am not impressed. It reminds me of IE7 crossed w/Safari. It seems to use a lot of AJAX type code to make it appear faster than it [...]
The U.S. Department of Defense has issued a memo that Google vehicles doing mapping for Street View are not allowed on U.S. Military Bases. One unit appears to have made it on a base, already. This is a no-brainer. Should have been in place months ago, no years ago.
Posted in google on Jun 7th, 2007
Once again Google has decided that it is the arbiter of all things social. However this time even the vaunted EFF is not happy with them, and their liberal buddies are in a tizzy also.
Privacy advocates counter that it also provides offensively candid glimpses of people unwittingly photographed while going about their daily lives.
In a [...]