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Technology Roundup

| May 7, 2013

A 1 May Ars article and 30 April Wired article mention that a UK company known as Gamma International is selling spyware that pretends to be Mozilla Firefox. Both articles mention that repressive governments have used it to spy on dissidents, but it’s unclear from the article whether the company purposely sells to evil governments [...]

I don’t think this is the most efficient way to get there…

| August 21, 2009

While looking up driving directions on Google Maps from Barcelona, Spain to Madrid, Spain, I clicked the option for “walking” directions out of curiosity’s sake.  This is the quickest route they gave me for walking.  I don’t think that’s the most efficient way to go.  First of all, I can’t walk on water.  Second, why [...]

Why?

| August 19, 2009

I don’t even remember what I was going to search for in Google, but here’s what came up when I typed “why”. This is becoming a huge “sport” on the net – to see what Google gives you when you type something into the search.  It’s the first time I got something fun.

Google Chrome

| September 3, 2008

Google’s new Chrome Web Browswer has been all over the news today.  See this general one here.  Or this one mentioning how it’s supposed to be a Microsoft killer.   This one talks about how blazingly fast it is.  (I agree!)  And, finally, this one talking about how Google is becoming more evil with the [...]

Viet Zodiac Makes Top 10 on Google!

| February 29, 2008

My Vietnamese Zodiac program is on the first page of Google when you search for the term! In fact, that about 24 people have come to my site looking for that from a search engine as of 29 February! That’s exciting because I know a lot of people don’t look past the first page of [...]

Google’s watching….not big brother!

| April 7, 2005

According to CNN Google will begin offering a new map service to rival and surpass Mapquest. They bought this service from Keyhole, a company with a large repository of satellite pictures of people’s houses. Some people are protesting this from a privacy point of view. I don’t see why they are protesting. It’s not as [...]