Google’s at it again… Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; “Heck, Yeah,” Say Google Founders MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 1, 2004 UTC – Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user. The New York Times has it, so it must be true… heck, yeah! Check that dateline, NYT?
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Tonight there was a Taize’ service at Holy Moly, preceded by a simple potluck dinner that included soup, bread, and salads. I contributed an Asian salad thingy that turned out pretty well, and I’ll forget what I did (and what I could do better for the next time) if I don’t get it down. I took it in a large covered salad bowl, which worked out great for mixing, transporting AND serving.
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In honor of the last day of March, it’s time for a little poetry. This seems to scan if sung to The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” o franken factor on the internet !pleh !pleh, airborne adventure wales, tarkett tap tight, porque? westminster abbey photo newton s tomb, it snew tricky woo… tricky woo… rasa, computers picture room full of monkeys newton s first law and marble maze, saltwaterchimp. newton law falling apple animated gif bucky katt, spork bucky katt tricky woo, bucky katt monkeys? harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken show me yours and…
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I’ve enjoyed listening to Air America/Al Franken et. al. today… that is, when I can pull in a decent signal on my crappy AM radio upstairs, or when the streaming audio happens to be working, but for the most part it’s been fun listening to it (especially today, when they’ve had some high-powered guests lined up). Most of the callers sound extremely surprised to find themselves on the air (and sound like they’re talk-radio call-in newbies). They’re not quite up to the calibre of, say, callers to :NPR’s “Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me.” Maybe it’ll improve. On a quick survey,…
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Well, the link is live at AirAmericaRadio.Com, but they’re apparently operating under radio silence. However, it requires RealPlayer (rats!1) and of course it’s nagging me to update my version of same. Ugh. And it’s NOT going to be the default player for anything. So now after updating my apparently totally useless former version of Real Player, I can hear commercials, but no talk once they’re finished. This is probably not a good sign. Somebody’s head will be rolling merrily along soon. Edited to add:It seems to be working now. Okay. Maybe I’ll listen now and then at work… but I’ll…
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Air America Radio goes live tomorrow at noon, according to their website – and they’ll be streaming audio, so I’ll be able to listen at work… but tomorrow I’m home, so I’ll give it a try and see if it’s awful, good, or awful good. That is, if this crazy experiment to bring liberal/left of center views to talk radio takes off, eh? It’s certainly gotten plenty of press. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll go on being one of 3 people in America that listens occasionally to “Le Show.” Although when we were in Utah, it was pledge week…
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With limited ability to stay current with some of the blogs I read, I had to content myself with scanning headlines in Bloglines a time or two. But not all of the blogs I read have RSS feeds, and my connection was so slow using dialup at Mom’s house on the laptop that I just had to bide my time and wonder what people were doing. For example, Ben Saunders is still on the ice. A couple of new entries at “Learning Moveable Type” – thanks, Elise! Clack is gloating over AOL’s new anti-spam tactic – raffle off the spammer’s…
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Alistair Cooke’s death was sad news for us this morning; we were lucky enough to hear quite a few installments of his excellent BBC NEWS | Programmes | Letter From America radio series, owing to the fact that our local :NPR affiliate, WBEZ, broadcasts BBC World Services on Saturday mornings. I’ll miss that warm, erudite voice very much. Dammit.
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So we’re home again. It’s been a hella fine weekend, but it’s nice to be back in our own house, and a few hours from now, we’ll sleep in our own bed. The thought fills me with contentment. Of course, the fact that I don’t have to go to work until Monday is probably part of this feeling. After learning the harsh lesson of our outbound trip, we made tracks to the airport early and had no problems at all. It truly was “Easy Check-In.” Won’t check in less than 90 minutes prior to departure again, ever. Nope. Joy of…
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The party last night… what a good time was had by all! It turned out that most of my cousins (of mine and the next younger generation) were there in addition to a bunch of my niece Sydnee’s friends and in-laws. The food was fabulous – Syd’s husband Eric is fond of Indian food so there were a lot of interesting items to choose from. The house was amazing – stuck up on the mountainside with a creek roaring down a little gully alongside, with several decks and great views of the valley through tall pine trees (kind of a…