So there was just an article posted on slashdot with the title “Google Might Dissappear in Five Years”. Nooooooo!!!!! How would we function on the web without Google?
Well then I read that the comment was made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. In case you didn’t know, Microsoft has put themselves up to the task of becoming Google’s number 1 competitor in the internet search market. There’s obviously a conflict of interest there, don’t ya think? Anyways, you gotta commend MS for their business decisions – they make a *ton* of money. (edit…Okay – yes, their business practices are sucky. Thanks to EKM for giving me a good dopeslap) My commendation stops there, however. I’m frequently amazed by the outright nasty marketing tactics they use. Ballmer’s most recent utterance is only one example. Another was when, a few weeks ago, “Chief Software Architect” Gates (uh-huh) boldly claimed that the iPod would be dead in a few years. Where are these guys coming up with this stuff? Seriously, MS must have a large cube-farm’s worth of marketing droids that sit around all day thinking of ways to discredit competitors. Okay – that’s all I have to say about that…for now.
/me wanders off to get coffee.
This is priceless. You gotta check it out. Thanks to Dan for the find.
The Brick Testament.
This morning, I stopped by the ‘Bou between church services, as is the custom for many of us that have to be at both services due to being in the choir/worship band/etc. Anyways, when I was there, I noticed that they got these new fancy espresso machines. From what I can tell, they take care of everything from grinding the beans, brewing the espresso, to discarding the spent grounds. Well I thought that was pretty cool, and mentioned it to another customer that happened to be in line behind me, and was thus berated for this being old news. I guess I need to get out to caribou more often.
All this to say that I think I need one of those machines…or three.
So I finally decided to get off my butt and get wordpress upgraded…so there ya go. Until I make a new “Erik” template, you’ll have to deal w/ the default wordpress theme.
Lots of love-
Erik
As posted on slashdot, a group of researchers at Stanford have figured out a way, using the Helmholtz Reciprocity algorithm, to allow cameras to sort of see around corners. It’s really amazing stuff. Here’s a mirror of the video that explains the process and shows some examples. It’s an MPEG4 file, and you may need a decent video player to view it.
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