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May 12th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Tech.
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Google has this week announced a labs project called Google Trends, a rather nice extension to the monthly search roundup that is Google Zeitgeist. Trends lets you see how popular a particular search term has been over time, and then just for fun, you can compare the popularity of other search terms over the same period. More…
April 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Website.
The site’s going to be up and down like a yoyo over the next few days (until Sunday 23rd April) due to some major network restructuring in the server building.
April 13th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Palm.
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Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before - it’s basically a hybrid of the two. More…
April 1st, 2006, by Rich, in Advertising, Google Earth, Tech.
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I think this may be an exclusive! It’s Apple’s 30th birthday next month; and they’re planning something big to mark the occasion.
Today I learned from a trusted source that Apple is poised to make history next Saturday when it unveils the worlds first advertisement that can be seen from space.
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March 27th, 2006, by Rich, in Semantic Computing.
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March 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Google, Google Earth, Religion, Silly, Society.
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I’ve mentioned previously about how the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) may be leaving us clues about His impending manifestation on Earth. I think I just spotted another, and it’s rather significant. More…
March 9th, 2006, by Rich, in Science, Silly.
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Schrödinger’s cat, bless it’s little white paws, had a pretty tough time of it; what with being locked in an imaginary box, and having to share that space with only a decaying radioactive isotope. At the end of the experiment, when the box is opened and the cat is observed, it’s probability wave collapses into either a live cat or a dead cat. It’s not exactly an easy life (or death). More…
March 1st, 2006, by Rich, in Google.
The rise in referral traffic from Google seems to have stabilized, so I’ve re-run the analysis from last week and updated the big daddy status list to reflect the current status of the various datacentres; two of which appear to have switched over to BigDaddy during the last week. Curiously (or not, depending on how conspiratorial you want to be) the logs show not one single referral from any of the machines in the IP range of each datacentre, yet.
February 21st, 2006, by Rich, in Website, WordPress.
For some reason, ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.0, the categories on this site haven’t been working. I’ve now upgraded to 2.0.1 and they’re still not happy. I had hoped that the upgrade would help… but alas… More…
February 20th, 2006, by Rich, in Society, Website, WordPress.
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