NevDull's Take On Things

It looks like you don’t need to be in Daytona for Spring Break to have your stuff trashed by visitors.  If you write really shitty code, you can set yourself up to have your entire website trashed by Googlebot. The comments have some insights about how to avoid such things, but the basic premise of [...]

In Rich Tehrani’s blog, I saw this post about KinderStart.com suing Google for blacklisting them.  In it, Rich hypothesizes about the possible implications of the lawsuit — rank us or pay — and it does cause me to think about the obvious possibility of Google eventually pushing people to AdWords by blacklisting them. Google’s not very [...]

The BBC’s reporting that a Google presentation posted up on the web included slides that said, among other things: “With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including e-mails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc; and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).” I’ve been giving Google most of the benefit of [...]

Occasionally, some obvious truths are distilled into a form which is great for reflection… something that you’d like to share with others because it resonates in a way that maybe a clue can be passed along. So here it is, from Daniel Jalkut, Five Things I May or May Not Know.

Are you a Star Wars douche?  I’m not.  But still, I suppose I was the target audience of Ask.Com’s SearchEngineStrategies New York 2006 party.  And they had Jeeves in Carbonite.  Was Lando fucking Calrissian supposed to come extricate him?  Am I supposed to pretend that I didn’t have to look up who the fuck Lando [...]

In articles like this one, there seems to be a hubbub about AOL and Yahoo talking about charging companies to use Goodmail for “certified e-mail” services. This makes me wonder why the hell companies aren’t yet using S/MIME to sign their e-mails sent out to customers.  It really would be trivial, and “essentially free”. That’s [...]

David Ogletree pointed out in his blog that Sun is claiming that Google’s considering outsourcing their grid. Here’s what I think. Google’s thoughts are probably that if they have everything for their compute grid as custom software, a) their money doesn’t make a difference. You can’t just bring someone in and say, “I don’t care [...]

Wow. There’s a book out called The Google Story which says that Google has been working with Craig Venter on genome sequencing. Of course, with such a huge infrastructure for distributed computing, Google is probably a natural partner for such a task, but if this is what’s keeping everything that Google has in Beta, I’m [...]

Nicotine patches really do cause strange dreams. Last night, I had a dream wherein Greg Boser had a harem of women over to my apartment, including Brittany Murphy. For some reason, the women all started beating on me, wrestling me to the ground, and overall just plain ol’ being pissed off and mean. I had [...]

Yesterday was one of those days when all the little things I’d not done reared their ugly heads. I have eight computers at home. I’m a single guy with a 2BR apartment because “the kids” need their own room. Lately, I’ve just been mostly chilling with my laptop (Thinkpad T23) on the couch, using Remote [...]