September, 2004


23
Sep 04

GBrowser – Google Print – A9

Is Google working on a Mozilla based web browser? Yes, according to different blogs (PCWorld) and news sites (BBC News) around the world.

That to me, is one of the coolest things that they could be working on right now. What a way to bring Mozilla to the masses. I just became a convert about a month ago with Firefox and haven’t turned back since. It really is the best web browser out there. I can imagine Google taking that and building something very useful and at the same time taking a massive chunk of the browser market.

Leading into the next part of the post. This has been around for about a year I think, but I haven’t even seen it anywhere until today. If you go to print.google.com, you get a “page left blank intentionally” message. But, if you add “site:print.google.com” to your search term, it will search excerpts from books and magazine articles and provide those as results. This is way interesting because it follows the same sort of concept that Amazon uses in their “Search inside this book” feature. Bringing me to the next point. Amazon’s ever-cool A9.Com is a user interface that combines the power of Google, IMDB, and Amazon itself (among a few others) to try and provide results across many different medias (for lack of a better word). As soon as I saw A9, I thought “wow, that’s a great thing, harness the power of Google in a friendly UI that people can use to widen their searches…. hmmm, Google should do that with a desktop application.” I then come in today to find all these rumors floating around about the Gbrowser. Perfect.

My prediction: Gbrowser will be a graphical interface for Gmail, Picasa, Blogger, RSS Feeds, and many other features. Imagine the power of Picasa with Gbrowser… You can search for images with Google, and automatically toss the relevant ones into your Picasa database. At the same time, choose to post the images to your Blog automatically or save them as Gmail attachments. The possibilities are really pretty endless.

My two cents on the coolness of Google’s future….


21
Sep 04

29:34

29hours and 34 minutes…

That’s how long it took for me to get my first spam message at [old link removed]

Pretty amazing, should I go for the quick money by selling the domain?

“I was doing some searches and I saw you just registered [old link removed].

If you’re interested in making money with your new domain,
check this out:

http://(nofreeadvertisementherespammers)”

Yeah, don’t think so Doug Garrison…

“This is backed by an Inc. 500 listed company and globally
it’s growing very quickly.”

Really… backed by an Inc. 500 company? Is that supposed to make me think “Fortune 500″? Oh crap, better sign up right now with my special access code….

Wow, I just realized that most of the last few posts have been spam related… I’ll have to stop that now. But seriously… that spam poetry, what kind of random word generator decides to pop that into some pornspam….


21
Sep 04

spam poetry 3 – megawatt farce

Hershel supplants assemble jersey
inching rumen Rosella flirting
Cyril designed, herbs, lynxes
occlude porcupine.
lavatory………..
………..blossoms

gladden mediating,
woodcocks divining
Gothic airmails
Washburn disposal

Reedville blips Casey.
falling, rushing…..
sexually shrunken
decent McNally.

insensible oppression
powerless
waiting
Satanist.

chocolate Formosa.


19
Sep 04

sleep

SLEEP is now necessary

But in the meantime….

[old link removed] – brand spanking new, fun with CSS, a pad of paper, a sharpie, and a digital camera…. still in the beginning part of the beginning stages of the beginning of the site (you get the point.)

ramblewords is now a member of the nightnoise network

and I’m damn tired, good night.


18
Sep 04

spam poetry 2 – “forwarding luggage”

subtleness supported
symbols dishonor
bubbly nationhood
Londoner guarded!!

flaps ticker seasonings
engraved bottomed invention
snifter muses cocktails
anchorage gasket goblins!!

engraved bottomed invention unequal
Luxembourg dredge slacking bruises

undertaker nines
ethnic helpless
brick cohesive farming


18
Sep 04

spam poetry – ternary fangled

funnels grippingly unseen
shouter clatter despots
roaming Weidman hauled
brunt Burke absolves

waiving subfiles
screaming arclike
truer cauldrons
boredom gilded

botched electoral Guggenheim
Wednesdays trickiest!!

fasts Melbourne winker
sphere centroid
towel?


15
Sep 04

R.I.P Johnny Ramone

Oct 8, 1948 – Sept. 15, 2004


14
Sep 04

i walk the line

ok, I promise this is the last Cash lyric post for a while…. but damnit, he knew how to write them…

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you’re mine, I walk the line

I find it very, very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day is through
Yes, I’ll admit that I’m a fool for you
Because you’re mine, I walk the line

As sure as night is dark and day is light
I keep you on my mind both day and night
And happiness I’ve known proves that it’s right
Because you’re mine, I walk the line

You’ve got a way to keep me on your side
You give me cause for love that I can’t hide
For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide
Because you’re mine, I walk the line

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you’re mine, I walk the line

John R. Cash, © House of Cash, Inc


14
Sep 04

man in black

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there’s a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he’s a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you’d think He’s talking straight to you and me.

Well, we’re doin’ mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin’ cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we’re reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought ‘a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin’ for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen’ that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen’ that we all were on their side.

Well, there’s things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin’ everywhere you go,
But ’til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You’ll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything’s OK,
But I’ll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
‘Till things are brighter, I’m the Man In Black.

John R. Cash, © 1971 House of Cash, Inc


12
Sep 04

Cash

Feb. 26, 1932 – Sept. 12, 2003