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Searching for Zach Jones

Posted by on November 25, 2008 No comments

Looking at some of my stats for visits for this blog, and it’s really weird that over 90% of them come from Windows Live. I just found that interesting because on Google, if you do a search for “Zach Jones” you get a bunch of pages mainly dedicated to some football player of my name, as well as links to a musician and a comedian as well. It is on the second page that there shows up a link to my plaxo page, and it isn’t until the fifth page of the search on Google that you get a link to one of my blogs – and it’s the Linux.

Just to see what it pulled up, I did a search on Windows Live for “Zach Jones”. Pretty fun, actually…at least for me. The first two results were for my Linux blog, and the third was to my bio on this blog.

So, apparently, the people who search on Windows live find me way more interesting than a football player, a comedian and a musician. Or they just find me weirder.

Breathalyzer for gmail?

Posted by on October 7, 2008 No comments

okay, this is nutty, but I had to share it. Apparently Google has cooked up a way to (hopefully) keep overly inebriated individuals from sending out email they wouldn’t in their right mind….

Ars Technica has the story

pretty wild huh? What would you have to set the math level at to pass when sober?

should blogging software come with this as well…?

New browsers

Posted by on September 6, 2008 No comments

Well, I wrote a few days ago about Flock, a firefox-based browser focused on networking. You can download it here. I am really enjoying it, but it is quite a memory hog. I think it has to do with how much it is keeping track of. But it is nice to be able to open the browser and just check in on what everyone is up to. And I love it’s blogging tool (did this post through it!). Check it out and play with it!

And I’m not too sure how many of you out there are aware of this, but Google just released it’s own browser. What?! you ask…. Yeah. Unfortunately, it’s only a Beta version which only works on XP and Vista. But Mac and Linux ones are supposedly coming soon. I’ve started playing around with it. It is blazing fast! But it has a some bugs on a few websites. On the other hand, it is the fastest browser I’ve seen with gmail, and it has Gears built in, so you can take many of the google services that are offered offline (through Gears) offline. Very cool. It’s called Chrome. If you’re using windows, it’s definitely worth a shot.

On an interesting note, Google released word of this browser to programmers and others worldwide by emailing them a comic strip. Though a little deep, it really explains all about the browser.

Blogged with the Flock Browser