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FT.com / UK – Microsoft primes search engine in pursuit of Google
From the Pointless Task desk, Microsoft thinks it can reinvent their search wheel.
First off: why bother? Live was, is, and probably always will be crap. I’d have better luck searching for useful results with a scrying bowl. And I’m no sorceror.
Second, most of the damn planet is trained to use Google. Accept that. Move on.
Third. I take it all back. This should be funny as hell to watch Microsoft spend billions to fall on it’s face again. And again.
I mean, they are losing the ad war to Apple when the Mac is an overpriced piece of eye candy with proprietary hardware. How do you not beat that in the marketplace of ideas? Even with buggy software. They’ve lost the geek crowd almost entirely to Linux. Seriously, give out some free OSes, open it up, and let the hobby crowd fix your errors for you. THEN sell it to Grandma in a prepackaged box at Beast Buy. Come on!
Microsoft: too big to fall, but not so big that their screwups can be covered up.
Polaroid Lovers Try to Revive Its Instant Film – NYTimes.com
There’s a difference between clinging to the past at the expense of progress (re: any example of conservatism in America) and hoping to keep a small piece of the past alive.
The latter example lies with the folks in this article who are trying to recreate Polaroid film so they can keep snapping pictures.
Good luck to them.
Hubble’s final servicing mission – The Big Picture – Boston.com
These are amazing pics taken from the recent shuttle mission that finally made it home on Sunday.
Whatever happened to the American imagination? We should be colonizing the local planets, not quibbling over whether or nation should be partaking in barbaric torture rituals. We’ve fallen far from Camelot folks. Someone needs to take our Luddite Talibangelical Quislings aside and beat them silly for sullying our nation’s good name.
How Google Earth explains the financial crisis | FP Passport
This article is pretty instructive in both how bad the global economy has gotten and in how good our tools for analyzing such things beyond what the Dow is at have gotten.
Special Tools Required For Last Call To Hubble : NPR
Yes, tools amaze me. I’m a gear geek and these one-of-a-kind Hubble fix-it tools are pretty damn cool in my book.
Unfair and prickly
So, I’m trolling through the job ads this morning and then bounce over to CNN to check on the news (yes, that IS entertainment for me). Anyways, our unofficial government news agency FoxNews is suing Al Franken because they don’t like the title of his book – nor likely the content of it either. Just goes to show how whiny people get when you give ’em a little power.
Some of you may have come across that nasty MSBlaster/LoveSan worm. Hopefully you do not have it on your computer, but if you do, come on back after your computer reboots.
You back yet? Okay, take a visit over to this link, which will give you directions on where to get your relevant Windows updates. I will give you to quick links to McAfee and Norton’s advice as well. Good luck out there.
A little basic help for ya
I have squandered a lot of time trying to figure out how to make simple explanatory pages for people on how to use their computers and the net. So, I went looking and I found some people who can do it a whole lot better than I can.
If you know people who need help learning the basics of the internet, point them to BBC’s Webwise page. There’s also a really basic tutorial on computers too. They’ll thank you for it.
With Leslie being gone over the past couple of weekends on interviews I have been tinkering about with some ideas for pages and content. Hopefully you’ll see a bit of that in the upcoming weeks.