For as much as I like Apple, sometimes they just do really stupid things.  For instance, I installed Snow Leopard the other day and then come to find out it automatically removed Java 1.5 and 1.4 from my machine, never mind the fact that I use them on a regular basis to develop software.  It [...]

Ah, the joys of trying to convince Google that there is something wrong…  For the past two months my site traffic has been way off, which, of course, leads to less ad revenue.  I mean, upwards of 75% less than normal.  In logging into Webmaster Tools, I quickly see the problem.  My main pages that [...]

I just logged into my Google Docs account to fill out a report and was met with:

Lovely.  I guess I will tell my boss that I can’t get my report done in time because the cloud was unavailable.  Is that the modern day equivalent of “The dog ate my homework”?

Apple announced a new iPod Shuffle.  Gut reaction:  Voice Over is cool and all, but why not voice recognition, too?  The Shuffle telling me it is playing Bach is pretty cool.  Telling the Shuffle to “Play Bach” (or “Play ‘My Playlist’) would be a whole lot better.  I suppose that will be next year.

Just got this about my Lucene blog:

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Dear site owner or webmaster of lucene.grantingersoll.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, [...]

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