This is amusing. Apparently someone at The Register is annoyed by Google News showing press releases.
Hm. I dunno. Is it really that big a deal?
This is also amusing. A co-worker pointed out the USB Floppy Disk RAID page. They now have USB RAID working on memory sticks too.
I remember joking about this seven or eight years ago, but never thought anyone would actually do it. That's too cool.
This is amusing. A co-worker pointed out the The Apathetic Online Journal Entry Generator.
If you too lazy to write today's blog entry, give it a try! :-)
According to this Reuters article, Microsoft has decided to finally stop ignoring Google.
"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said.
Visse said the company was making some significant investments in developing a better search engine. But the company has not offered specific plans.
Hmm. This will be interesting. It's always interesting when Microsoft decides to compete with you.
Hey, technically Microsoft is now a Yahoo customer, since they use Inktomi behind the scenes and Yahoo bought Inktomi. I wonder what this all means...
In a news.com article titled Sun execs boomerang back to old HQ we learn about the fact that Sun's execs have left their new Santa Clara campus and moved back to Menlo Park. No big deal. The entertaining part of the article is a few paragraphs into it.
Sun opened the Santa Clara campus in June 2000, after the Internet bubble had burst but before the resulting spending slowdown shrank the company's quarterly revenue by about 40 percent. The site, a former insane asylum, features a prominent clock tower that housed McNealy and other top executives.
That explains a lot, doesn't it?
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Several folks at work announced that they're changing jobs soon. The announcements were along the lines of "when I get back from vacation, I'll be taking a new position doing..."
Of course, nobody knows what to believe, being April 1st and all.
If they're legit, we need to slap these guys for picking the worst possible day to make such an announcement. If not, then we'll soon know how many people were fooled.
Personally, I don't know what to believe. I'm suspicious of just about everything I read on April 1st.
On a related note, I was really hoping that The Onion would do something extra special today. But it seems not. Oh, well.
According to BlogShares, my blog is currently worth $626.54.
Heh.
I wonder which will do better in the long run... my blog or company stock? :-)
If you need a place to store a million gigabytes, look no further than IBM's new TotalStorage controller. "The SVC uses four 2 Gb/s FibreChannel interfaces, a 4GB cache and dual 2.4GHz Pentium 4 to manage heterogeneous hard disk storage independently of application servers." Apparently is can sustain 1Gbps of I/O.
And, of course, it runs Linux. :-)
Nice.