Archive for 'Technology' Category

Let them eat Google

Oct 16th, 2007 by admin | 0

Now, this is just cool.
Google just celebrated their one-year anniversary of it’s New York City offices. So they made a scale-model cake of the huge facility, using for reference (natch) Google Earth and Street View, two wildly cool Google technologies, and a crew of seven worked four days to construct the thing.
So they’ve got the […]

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Tell the House to Hold the Line — No Telecom Immunity!

Oct 15th, 2007 by admin | 0

From EFF:
This Wednesday, the RESTORE Act enters the final round in the House of Representatives, where it will be presented to the entire House for a floor vote. Within the next 48 hours, all House representatives must hear the same, clear message — keep telecom immunity out of the RESTORE ACT.
Last week, we initiated a […]

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Open Office turns seven

Oct 13th, 2007 by admin | 0

My birthday wish: the continued humbling of MS.
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads […]

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Improve Gmail

Oct 13th, 2007 by admin | 0

I switched from Yahoo to Gmail for my primary email address a few months ago, and just wish I’d done it sooner. Gmail is vastly superior in many respects, not the least being the absence of display advertising all over the web-accessed email client, which is what finally make me abandon my several Yahoo accounts […]

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2007 Okie Blog Awards announced

Oct 6th, 2007 by admin | 0

And the winners are …
Congratulations to all, and a big collegial hug to Mike at Okiedoke who does such a great job with the awards each year, in addition to his own great blog.
I have to admit I haven’t read most of the winning blogs, which I plan to remedy soon. I have set a […]

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