Month: February 2003

Google stores the past
Interesting article which wasn’t about what I thought it would be. Tracks through the history of Google, from conception to what it is today.. and that is the crux of the matter. Yes it is a search engine, but it is so much more now. When was the last time you googled yourself?

A Nation of Voyeurs: “It’s the collapse of inconvenience,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. “It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn’t realize it.”

This is cool
Just had this forwarded (is that a word?) to me by a friend, she, quite rightly, stated in the subject line of the email that “This is cool”. Indeed it is. I think it did the rounds a while ago but I didn’t check it out first time around.
Powers Of 10: “View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.”

Got it in one
“I thought I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was just some b*stard with a torch, bringing me more work.”
David Brent – The Office.

Bleuch
Ever have one of those days when you just want to crawl back into bed?

Relief
What a weekend. Bad family news on Friday night. Drunk on Saturday. Sick all day Sunday.

I’m almost glad it’s Monday morning.