Google is a big whiner - google’s a verb, get over it
[Update] It seems Seth Godin agrees with me, at least that’s how I’m reading it. [/Update]
I’m sorry, but I don’t care in the slightest that Google doesn’t want people to use the word “google” as a verb meaning “to search” in general terms. In fact, to me it sounds a bit silly when spoken out loud. But their bellyaching (same link) actually makes me want to do it more.
Yes, you’re Google - at this point who gives a rat’s ass if your name remains trademarked? Everyone knows who you are.
I’m just not remotely feeling sorry for you.
Now excuse me while I go google some stuff using Yahoo’s search because I’m annoyed with Google.
Tags: Google, to google, Google as a verb, Google usage
Jack Black on Piracy
Jack Black’s new tongue-in-cheek public service announcement asking users not to be pirates (video embedded below):
Via Jordan
BTW, there are other funny Tenacious D clips available as well.
Tags: Jack Black, piracy, pirates, PSA, public service announcement, Tenacious D
Regular Dish Soap in the Dishwasher…
So, guess what happens when one spouse (say, me) leaves a dish full of one part dish soap, one part water mixture in the sink with all the other dishes - without telling the other spouse (Fran)? Well, she decides to do the dishes, which I of course can’t complain about, and doesn’t notice the fluid in the dish in question as it’s put in the dishwasher.
This post is just in case anyone else finds themselves in the same situation, with soap suds creeping out of the dishwasher at an alarming rate. (And so I have it archived somewhere, in case, you know… I need it again):
Here’s the fix:
- Dump all of your ice cubes into the bottom of the dishwasher to cool the water.
- Sprinkle salt on the suds.
- Pour some vinegar into the suds.
- Scoop out as many of the suds as you can.
- Turn your dishwasher’s knob (if it’s the old-school kind that has one) to the end of the last part of the cycle. It should be fairly straightforward to find the point where it actually starts draining the water. Usually this is right after the rinse cycle.
- Once it’s empty, turn it all the way around to the rinse cycle, and let it rinse then drain 3 or 4 times. The first time or two, monitor things so that the suds don’t get out of control. If you did the vinegar and salt thing, it shouldn’t be a problem.
- After about the 4th mini-cycle, you’re probably safe to do a regular load again to clean the dishes that are coated in dish soap. Again, monitor things, since the residue of dish soap on the dishes could cause a flare up of bubbles.
- If you noticed dish soap bubbles, yet one more cycle might be in order to get the dishes clean.
What fun!
Tags: dish soap, dishsoap, dishwasher, dishes, vinegar, salt, regular dish soap, suds, bubbles
Public Health using podcast?
We recently moved, and as always happens when you move, much of our mail has been going to our old address. We picked a stack of it up tonight, and as Francesca was going through it, she pointed out that we had received a notice from the North Delta Health Unit pointing out that chicken pox vaccination time was coming around for our oldest son.
That’s not all that notable, but the fact that at the bottom of the postcard there was a large section that stated “Listen to a podcast with Dr. Monika Naus on Chickenpox at: www.bccdc.org” sure was. As Fran said, it’s not that long ago that they started using email and pointing people to their website. Now they’re using podcasts? Cool!
Tags: podcast, podcasts, health unit, public health, chickenpox, chicken pox, mail
Scrybe - Check it out at Download Squad
I don’t often promote my writing at Download Squad here on my personal blog, but today I need to point out a post I did about an upcoming web-based productivity suite called Scrybe. This thing looks incredible, and if it can deliver on the promises made in the promotional video, it’s going to be a hit. Check out the comments at Download Squad too - it’s almost unanimous that people want to try it.
Here’s an excerpt:
Scrybe is an online organizer that is grounded in one word: context. The user interface is designed to always give the user context relating to the data they are dealing with. So if you’re working in your calendar, you can fly up to a year view, or dig down all the way to a day view, and all of the related information is intelligently displayed so that you never lose track of where you are. Watching the video on their site, you immediately get a feeling of “that just makes sense”. Google Calendar is good, but doesn’t appear to be as good as this.
Oh, and if you like it, please Digg it!
Tags: Download Squad, DownloadSquad, 43 Folders, 43Folders, Backpack, Getting Things Done, GettingThingsDone, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, , GoogleCalendar, GoogleNotebook, GTD, offline productivity, OfflineProductivity, online offline, online , productivity, OnlineOffline, OnlineProductivity, productivity, Scrybe, synchronization, 37 Signals, 37Signals
