Its been about 5 years since I first starting using gmail and about 2 since I have been using it exclusively. It was the product that was, in my mind, a foreverbeta. It seemed like Google was never going to release the product and remove that pesky beta tag.
Google suprised me, pleasantly, today when they updated their blog:
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta. “Beta” will be removed from the product logos today, but we’ll continue to innovate and improve upon the applications whether or not there’s a small “beta” beneath the logo. Indeed, today we’re also announcing some other Google Apps features that we think will appeal to large enterprises: mail delegation, mail retention and ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability.
So summer is well underway and one of the things that peopel hate about the summer is pesky insects. I read a pretty interesting article over at Lifehacker that had an interesting time on how to repel housefiles.
Evidently, houseflies, being highly edible and defenseless, are nervous types, and don’t like to sit still when they see something moving nearby, because it could be a predator. The water bag acts a bit like a lens—try it some time—in which the movements of people in the area are reflected. Even if the fly is too far from the action to see it directly, it can see a shifting of light and dark in the water bag, which it interprets as nearby movement, and it will fly away from the bag.
Well today I have decided to reclaim this blog for my own devices. For quite a while now I used it to promote a podcast but i feel that I should really start using this for myself. I am not sure what I will use it for yet, probably some writing and general musings, but we will see how it goes.
Of course the day that I decide to embark on this endevor I have very little to talk about. Its the day before a 3 day weekend and no one is calling into the office for support. As such it leads to a long, mind numbing day where forming a simple thought requires every bit of concentration I can muster.
Having just returned from the glorious land of Las Vegas, I am looking forward to the opportunity to recharge my batteries. Vegas is a vacation that you have to work at. There is so much to do and see. I could not help but be in awe at the sheer grandious-ness-ity (I can make up words if I want) that one can find everywhere they look. It seems that every time you turn around some different attraction runs up and kicks you in the nuts to say “HI I AM HERE LOOK AT ME”. It was quite an adventure.
Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” advertising campaign kicked off pretty well, but someone, somewhere, thought it was missing something. And by “something” we mean the lunacy of Steve Ballmer shouting at the top of his lungs.
Professor Robert Connolly, an anatomist who is working with Egyptian authorities to analyse the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh, says that preliminary tests on the mummified remains of the two still-born babies indicate that Tutankhamun may have fathered them both…
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While we’re not sure how big a slice of the Guitar Hero pie the Wii version has taken, the franchise has generated some serious revenue. In North America alone, the series of games has earned over $1 billion. In fact, the third title even did so well as to be the top title in 2007.
