Month: October 2004

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced it acquired Keyhole Corp., a Mountain View, Calif.-based digital mapping company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ‘With Keyhole, you can fly like a superhero from your computer at home to a street corner somewhere else in the world – or find a local hospital, map a…

Detailing ‘a new and surprising twig’ on the human family tree, scientists report Thursday they’ve discovered the remains of a clan of tiny human relatives, standing about 30 inches tall, that lived on an isolated island in eastern Indonesia as recently as 18,000 years ago. Bones from seven individuals of the new species have been…

In a long awaited and much heralded move, the Russian Parliament voted overnight to confirm the Cabinet’s decision two weeks ago to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The global climate protection treaty is now set to come into force, leaving Australia and the USA the only two developed countries refusing to ratify. Greenpeace Campaigns Manager Danny…

My 3 month contract with PCI finished up and i’ve now found myself working at a company called Synnex which is a large international computer hardware wholesaler, So if you want any wholesale priced parts let me know. It’s only ~4 days a week (Mondays off) so I might have some time up my sleeve…

A nice little cartoon Phoebe sent me…

Microsoft Corp. yesterday released an unusually large number of software security updates to fix flaws in its products, some of which could be exploited to remotely take over computers running the Windows operating system. The free updates, available at Microsoft’s Windows Update Web site, are designed to fix at least 21 vulnerabilities, several of which…

An unexplained and unprecedented rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere two years running has raised fears that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming. Scientists are baffled why the quantity of the main greenhouse gas has leapt in a two-year period and are concerned that the Earth’s natural systems are…

hmm… could be a Serious, duplicated integrity invalidation, or a Multiplexed, undetermined swapfile unavailability. A nice piece of work, I wish i’d found this sooner! Also check his Dilbert Gobbledygook generator, ideal for updating your CV.

My friend Paul Oosting has managed to put it into better words than I have, read on.. This seems to be our collective dark night of the soul. For many of us in Australia, post 2004 federal election period is somewhat ominous and depressing. Power has been consolidated and a new government has been installed.…

Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you’re looking to find.