Funny site. Tell it a bit about yourself and it tells you your famous last words. Mine seemed suprisingly accurate: “I can pass this guy!”

There is a clever little program that tests sites for safety and puts a green checkmark or a red one in the search engine against the site url so that you are warned even before going to it. There is a version for IE and Firefox take a look at Siteadvisor.com I’m trying it out and at the moment its free .

Does anybody else think it odd that a not found page at google displays the word “Google” in text instead of the companies logo? It uses this:
Google  

By coding as follows:
<font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>G</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#f3c518 size=10>o</font><font face=times color=#0039b6 size=10>g</font><font face=times color=#30a72f size=10>l</font><font face=times color=#c41200 size=10>e</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;</b>

It is not even CSS. What is with those guys?

Worse yet, it is not even a link back to Google’s main page.

I never knew this: people find it funny to put up internet spoofs around April Fools Day. At my house, it is common — no required — that one of my children put a rubber band on the sink sprayer so that when one turns on the kitchen faucet to get a drink or wash ones hands before preparing food, you instead get a face full of water. I forget every single year and use that faucet, sometimes twice believe it or not. Of course the one year I did realize ahead of time, I feigned not to and used it anyway. But on the internet?

This tale is funny, a bathroom equipped with browsing hardware. Now well I don’ t think that such a great idea … who would want the keyboard next, how about these twists on it:
a. around here all urinals now have advertisements called “johnny ads” posted over them on a subscription basis. Why not make johnny ads display on lcd screens and that way you can vary the display and update on the fly. I don’t think that such a piss pour idea (that was a pun for those who missed it); and
b. at the movies or concert, stream the movie or content to the restroom so that you don’t have to hold it for fear of not understanding the rest of the show because you missed the critical two minutes. There is nothing more crappy than having to go at the best part of the movie!

Apparently people actually make lists of the best April Fools Day Spoofs on the net.

With almost a 50% share of all net searches, people are googling it rapidly. Why? Because they get good results I presume. I sure do.

In one of the most disjointed rambling pieces I have read in a while, author David Donnelly aparently criticizes Google for playing the game of politics in Washington. It is hard to figure out exactly what is going on from his piece.

Assuming he is unbiased and giving objective facts (well I guess those two could exist one separate from the other … so assuming objective facts at least), one wonders if his statements are true, Google employees gave predominantly democratic (read minority) in Federal campaign contributions. Is it any wonder than that they are having trouble advancing their net neutrality campaign then? At least it sounds like they now recognize their mistake. Always side with the more powerful … even packs of dogs recognize that. Google is smarter than the average dog so they’ll get it handled.

Godaddy has decided to move all of its 4.5 million parked domains to a Microsoft Windows server platform. The move from Linux is supposedly to maximize assets and permit rapid deployment of new technologies.

Said the quotes in the Microsoft Press Release:

“Our business is based on providing the best possible service at the lowest possible price. This strategy requires us to maximize all of our resources, particularly our technology assets,” said Warren Adelman, GoDaddy.com president and COO. “It was clear from all of the testing we’ve conducted that Microsoft provides an efficient and scalable operating platform, while also providing the performance needed to handle our extraordinary growth.”

I am sure they spent some time trying to figure out what is best for them. But I really wonder what the politics were behind this move as I have never seen anything slicker about Windows server hosting over Linux, and I have definately not seen any example where it is a less expensive deployment.