Archive for September, 2008

Search the Year 2001

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Google can pull up a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001. From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear it’s not an exact version, but that they can do it at all is impressive. Could your company pull up a backup of anything from [...]

Introspection

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Merlin continues to inspire. Diana mentions Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture which is getting a lot of attention with his recent passing. Many people are probably already in a mood to seriously consider their life’s course. While these two posts have great value to me, I fear the next few weeks. The influx of attention, conversation and links [...]

Google Chrome’s Comic Book for Tech Gurus

Monday, September 1st, 2008

The USPS sent the promotional comic book about Google’s new browser a day early to Philipp Lenssen. While everyone else wonders what this means for the browser cold war, I’m much more interested in the messenger. Who thinks of launching a web browser by mailing a paper comic book to tech bloggers? I’m not sure what [...]