10 Random Thoughts
- Those girls in the True ads are just ridiculous. Do they think that I’ll think that I’ll meet a girl that looks like that if I click on their ad? Really? This works?
- What percentage of all Technorati searches are vanity searches? 98%?
- Speaking of vanity searches: If you’re building one of these million new google killers, make sure it returns flattering results for every big blogger’s full name. That’s the first thing they’re going to try.
- The conditional formatting and charting functions in Excel 2007 are incredible. But, Outlook 2007 still hogs 100% of my CPU every 5 minutes when it fetches mail. You can’t get away with crap like that anymore MS.
- Speaking of MS: Why does windows always insist on putting the item you want at the very end of the alt-tab list? It’s been like this since windows 95 and it needs to stop.
- Google’s gathering of inane personal usage statistics and presenting them back to us as, well… statistics, is a bad idea. First, it’s not actually useful. Second, it just gives people the creeps. They should keep it to themselves until they’ve done something very, very cool with it.
- I wonder if a website acquisition by a big media company like CBS entails the same platform migration that a Yahoo! or Google acquisition would. At Y or G, you’re definitely moving to their infrastructure because that’s what they do. But at CBS? Maybe they still let you do your own thing?
- Does it bug anyone else when a movie’s title comes from some random spoken phrase that lacks any sort of importance to the story?
- Why can’t the gov’t direct deposit my refund check? I think it’s a conspiracy to give artificial business to the USPS. I mean, the checks were clearly printed by a computer. Let’s go all the way.
- Speaking of unnecessary paper: How long before we’re no longer using paper money at all? 10 years? 20?
Update: A couple of people have told me that they can indeed direct deposit the refund check. Oops.
June 5th, 2007 at 6:09 am
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