well, if you ask me ... » google http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped my thoughts on faith, family, freedom, and fun Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Daily Links http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2009/02/12/links-for-2009-02-12/ http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2009/02/12/links-for-2009-02-12/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:12:59 +0000 bsoist http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2009/02/12/links-for-2009-02-12/
  • Canseco wants to help baseball with steroid issue – MLB – Yahoo! Sports
  • Wake N' Bacon Alarm Clock: The Best Sleep-Ending Device Ever | Serious Eats
  • Alex Rodriguez Park Dedication Set for Feb. 13
    No comment.
    (tags: steroids roids baseball arod)
  • High Five Escalator at Improv Everywhere
    I had to smile just reading this. Great fun!
    (tags: video humor nyc funny improveverywhere improv)
  • #hashtags – Popular
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  • Google Wants to Save You Money on Electricity
    (tags: google electricity energy money zero)
  • Business Opportunities Weblog | Boy Invents Way to Save Birds
    Smart kid.
    (tags: birds ideas kids)
  • Archiving Twitter in OPML (Scripting News)
    (tags: tools twitter)
  • Charge your Laptop Computer with a Foot Pedal
    A great idea.
    (tags: laptop zero environment cool idea)
  • Subpoena for Rove
    Old news now, but still interesting.
    (tags: rove gop law)

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  • Phelps Acknowledges Photo Using Pot Pipe
    Phelps doesn't fall into the trap of denying everything like many athletes – good for him.
    (tags: phelps olympics bong pot drugs)
  • Where's your data? (Scripting News)
    I was thinking about this when I learned of Magnolia's data loss. Make sure you have your data backed up. ;)
    (tags: data magnolia backups free)
  • Downloads: Rowmote Turns Your iPhone into an Apple Remote
    We have a lot of those remotes but don't always know where they are. :)
    (tags: applications ipod iphone apps mac remote apple osx)
  • Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle
    No wonder print media is suffering. Wow!
    (tags: media newspapers print nytimes kindle journalism technology nyt publishing)
  • 125 Great Movies & TV Shows You May Not Have Known Are Available on Netflix Watch Instantly | AlwaysWatching.net
    We actually bough a 360 this Christmas so we could watch these films on the big screen. Being able to play Halo again was a fringe benefit.
    (tags: video film netflix movies towatch)
  • Secrets of my success: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings – Jan. 28, 2009
    There is no other way to say it. I LOVE NetFlix. It is actually strangely ironic that NetFlix helped me earn enough to be able to afford to subscribe ($24.99/month back then). I became an affiliate for NetFlix in 2000 and it was the first real success for my online ventures. I haven't stopped making money since and the family and I blow through at least a dozen movies a month now.
    (tags: film movie netflix affiliate)
  • Neven Mrgan's tumbl
    Agreed. I'm not doing it wrong – everyone else is. :)
    (tags: gmail funny mail)

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  • Twitter Search Ranked By ReTweets
  • Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware
  • Twitter Search By Authority
    • ]]>     After posting about Google’s problem and my subsequent confusion, I realized that I didn’t give Twitter it’s proper due. I made mention of my tweet and the many other I saw (1200+ in the first hour), but I didn’t ask the bigger question.

    Did Twitter have a hand it getting this problem fixed more quickly than it might have been?

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  • Did Twitter Help Solve Google’s Problems?
  • Twitter Search Ranked By ReTweets
  • Ginx.com
    • ]]>     I’m planning a trip to Italy. While I am there, I may fly back for the Mets home opener - seriously – so I tried to search for GMT to get the flight times straight.

    Google warned me about every result. I was very annoyed by two things. One, I use a Mac so most of these warnings don’t apply (I KNOW some do), and 2) the only way to continue to the site is to copy and past the URL (or type it) and go.

    Then I noticed that even the Wikipedia entry was flagged. What?

    Then I decided to search to see if my websites were flagged – Yep! Even my twitter page, hmmm? So, I searched for Twitter – Yep. 

    What about YouTube, a Google property. Searched for youtube and sure enough the first result was www.youtube.com which was flagged. 

    So, I sent a tweet to ask for help. Seems that about 300 people sent tweets just minutes before. 

    Good news – the problem seems to be fixed.

    Google Flags Whole Internet As Malware .

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    ]]>     http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2009/01/31/google-flags-whole-internet-as-malware/feed/ 1     Google Starts Up Philanthropy Campaign http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2005/10/13/google-starts-up-philanthropy-campaign/ http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2005/10/13/google-starts-up-philanthropy-campaign/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:24:38 +0000 bsoist http://bsoist.geexfiles.com/index.php/2005/10/13/google-starts-up-philanthropy-campaign/
  • Google goes to Washington
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    • ]]>

    McGurn said that at least Google disclosed to potential shareholders up front that it intended to fund philanthropy through the corporation. But, he added, there is a danger that the “lines get blurred between how founders view corporate assets and personal assets.”

    Google Starts Up Philanthropy CampaignI’m confused by this whole thing.Many companies give like this. Many stockholders support it. Many don’t.I am not sure Google’s founders are ‘blurring’ any line. I think they know what they’re doing. Stockholders have every right to speak out. If enough stockholders disagree, fine. Until then we should all wish other companies would aspire to do good.

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  • Google Starts Up Philanthropy Campaign
  • Miers Focused on Policy
  • All we need is . . .
    • ]]>     I’ve always believed in what Google says. Not always in favor of what they do, though.Now they are setting up shop in D.C. Does this scare anyone?Official Google Blog: Google goes to Washington

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    ]]>     http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2005/10/11/google-goes-to-washington/feed/ 0     Google Maps http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2005/07/14/google-maps/ http://whsjr.soistmann.com/oped/2005/07/14/google-maps/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:56:33 +0000 bsoist http://bsoist.geexfiles.com/index.php/2005/07/14/82/
  • I’m Back
  • My Places
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    • ]]>     Tell me this is not cool!The night it was announced my son and I began brainstorming what we should try. We came up with about two dozen ideas and decided I should try about 8 of them.Here are two maps I threw together as a learning experience. They are not finished yet, but it shouldn’t take much moreUPDATE: I forgot to post the links to the maps. :) This one actually works. It may not work well, but you can actually do searches. I have to click on one of the panel items to make the map show, but I am looking into that. This one is a mock up of the next one I’d like to finish. It doesn’t work yet. I plan to pull all the data and store in on my server.

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