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Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2011-11-19

Michael — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:59:00 +0000

@LisaTickledPink You can take that as proof that no matter how boring you think your life is, there are clearly people who are truly dull! in reply to LisaTickledPink #
Aww… I feel special. Someone just +1ed one of my Google+ comments for the first time. #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2011-09-24

Michael — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 07:59:00 +0000

Glad to see that Google+ is open to everyone now. Hopefully the floodgates will open now that the world can get in. http://t.co/wIYLIOkO #

I Joined Google Plus

Michael — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:43:48 +0000

I had no plans to sign up for Google Plus until I did it on a whim a few days ago. I never used Friendster when it was the big social site. Then when MySpace and its animated GIFs and embedded MIDI files came along, I never signed up. Then Facebook showed up and despite the fact that many of my friends and family are addicted to it, I never signed up for an account and don’t plan to do so. In general I’ve never seen a need to provide a forum where my coworkers can contact my family or my high school friends can contact my former employees, etc. If want to talk to a friend or family member, I can send an e-mail, send a text or call them.That being said, I do use Twitter and pipe my posts back to my own website. This is an important fact because I think I’ll use Google+ much like Twitter or my own site. I plan to make everything public even though Google+ offers some very granular and really easy to use privacy options should I ever want to use them. One of the main reasons I’ve avoided Facebook is their disastrous history of making people believe their posts are private and then violated their trust by somehow accidentally making their posts public. I’m not naive enough to think place blind trust in any company, but unlike Google’s “Do no evil” motto, Facebook seems to go the exact opposite direction!

Up til now, I’ve loved almost every Google product I’ve used in the past, so I do have high hopes for Google+.

Who knows how much I’ll use it, but you can find me on Google+ right here.

Tweet & Google Plus Buttons

Michael — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:28:37 +0000

I’ve been meaning to add Twitter buttons to my site for a while. Yesterday, I finally did it, but since the popularity of Google+ is increasing every day I thought I should add that as well. I’ll have more to say about Google+ soon. Not to give away any spoilers, but if you want in invite to Google+, let me know.

In the meantime, feel free to click my Tweet & +1 buttons as you read the site!

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2010-10-09

Michael — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 07:59:00 +0000

@bigfishgrill in Wilmington for dinner last night. By far, best seafood I’ve had in a long time. (on the east coast that is) #
RT @Pogue: Oh NO!! Google is turing off 800-GOOG-411, one of its all-time best services. Nothing else comes close. WHY? http://bit.ly/bdP2sq #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2010-04-03

Michael — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:59:00 +0000

Sugar-free Marshmallow Peeps make Easter much more bearable! Not the real thing, but as close as I can get. #
I seem to be trying set a record for the most trips to the supermarket in a week. I think this the last one but I said that yesterday too. #
BurlCo Times had a great article about my friend Neil’s learning center. (Impact Learning Center in Riverton NJ) http://bit.ly/9CPJks #
Have you Topeka’ed today? http://bit.ly/ag9QY5 #
Oh joy, just got the first pollen alert text of the season from The Weather Channel. Thank god for Claritin! #
Mowing, spreading, weeding, edging, raking… it’s clean up the yard day. #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2010-03-27

Michael — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:59:00 +0000

@comcast finally did some something right & provided a bandwidth usage meter so we can finally guessing if we went over every month. #
RT @Ihnatko: “A Geek’s Sign of Spring: I plug my phone into the car dock & notice the cable is soft & flexible instead of cold and stiff.” #
@embly917 I think there are a lot of people out there who would benefit immensely from reading such a blog. in reply to embly917 #
Would have been a great weekend to get stuff done outside if not for being sidelined by a stupid head cold. #
What better way to end a stressful day than to have the dentist drill your teeth. The week over yet? #
Google turned off filters in China. While I’m sure the Chinese government will block them, it’s a good first move. http://bit.ly/9vdoQI #
Watch how Google’s experiment in information freedom in China is going day by day. http://bit.ly/dd84V4 #
RT @digitalkitty “Discovery has signed a deal with Sarah Palin to host a TV show” -Did my favorite channel just jump the shark? So pathetic! #
Took great effort to avoid giving my grandfather my cold. Now I’m at Walgreens buying him cough medicine. So much for that plan. #
FINALLY making corned beef & cabbage that was meant for St Pat’s Day. Made up for being so late by also having Irish oatmeal for breakfast. #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2010-01-16

Michael — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:59:00 +0000

Spent the weekend making a computer stop sending out spam. Rootkits are evil and the people who create them should be shot. #
How’s it possible that The Simpsons has been on for 20 years? Seems like just yesterday that my elementary school was banning Bart t-shirts! #
Very unhappy that a stupid football game made me miss the last 15 minutes of The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special. #
@intuit created a watered down & seemingly useless new Mac version of @quicken? Just when we though they were done screwing Mac users! #
RT @cnnbrk: “Google retaliates for attacks traced back to China, saying it will no longer filter search results there. – Way to go @Google! #
Why can’t Comcast’s DVR warn me when it’s not going to record something because of a conflict? How hard would that be to program!?! #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-11-21

Michael — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:59:00 +0000

I finally posted my mom’s crocheted towel catalog online. She’s making them by the dozen. DM or e-mail if you want any. http://bit.ly/32PTIn #
Just posted some stuff on @eBay for the first time in a while. OMG their fees have become outrageous! http://bit.ly/2QWAg8 #
Almost caught up on the e-mail backlog. I’ve been really bad at that lately. Now time to finally finish writing my Christmas card letter! #
So tired of seeing actors from the Twilight movie on every show I watch. Fast-forwarded though most of Jay Leno’s guests this week. #newmoon #
Stores really need to train cashiers. Told cashier she hit wrong key. She got snotty & said she’s right. Then I was mischarged. Infuriating! #
@google just indexed my last tweet & sent me an alert 5 minutes after I posted it. Very impressive! #
RT @BrentSpiner: “Doesn’t it seem like Pete Rose should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame? … he got more hits than anyone.” – I agree #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-07-11

Michael — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:59:00 +0000

Celebrating the 4th a day late this year. Just filled the tiki torches. Making 2 kinds for sausage & burgers. Celebrating America with meat! #
Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #photography #cooking #
If you don’t follow @BrentSpiner, you should. Make sure you read his tweets from the past few days. Will he ever get of of that mirror? in reply to BrentSpiner #
RT @google: “Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk are out of beta – yes, reallyhttp://bit.ly/Xl7OQ"; – can it be true? LOL in reply to google #
RT @kingsthings: “this has all been phenomenal but I hope the stories die down soon. let’s let him have some peace.” – Well said Larry! in reply to kingsthings #
Watching Billy Mays tribute on Disc. Ch. So much more touching than Michael Jackson’s. I think the world lost a lot more in Billy than MJ. #

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-06-20

Michael — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:59:00 +0000

Microsoft is advertising Bing on Google. Interesting… http://bit.ly/dTw9v #

Bing advertisement on Google

Michael — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:19:41 +0000

We all know Microsoft is trying desperately to get some traction for their new Bing search engine. While looking for some images on Google, I just noticed that one of the avenues Microsoft is using is by buying adds on… wait for it… Google!

Click here to see the whole page.

Twitter Updates for Week Ending 2009-04-18

Michael — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:59:00 +0000

Happy Easter!!! – Enjoy an Easter game from Google… http://bit.ly/xaIkL #

Google Maps Killed Bambi!

Michael — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:59:15 +0000

Oh the humanity! Apparently the Google Maps car had a run in with a deer and the car won. In true Google fashion, the entire thing was indexed!

Check it out at Gizmodo.

Ask a gas pump for directions

Michael — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:45:10 +0000

Back “in the old days” when you were lost you’d stop at a gas station and ask the attendant for directions. Here in New Jersey we still have the luxury of having an attendant come to our car when we pull in, but in the rest of the states where they have self-serve gas, you’d be hard pressed to find an attendant. You swipe your card, pump your gas and go.

Luckily, getting lost isn’t much of a problem now that we have GPS, cell phones and Google Maps. But now things have gone full circle. If you leave home and forget to map your route first, you can pull into a gas station and ask the pump for directions thanks to an internet connection and Google Maps.

Google Christmas Surprise

Michael — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:53:50 +0000

While looking for something using Google a few minutes ago, I stumbled upon a little Easter… errr… should I call it a Christmas Egg?

Do a search for “Christmas” or anything else that generates Christmas themed ads on the right side and you’ll see a row of Christmas trees along side your results.

Click here to see for yourself.

Google Earth for Mac

Michael — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:49:32 +0000

Following up on a post from about six months ago (see post here), Googgle has finally released a MAcintosh version of it’s very cool Google Earth software. It requires MacOS X 10.4 Tiger to run, so I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but kudos to Google for getting a Mac version out there.

Get it now at earth.google.com

Google Jet

Michael — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:51:05 +0000

So these two guys form a little company and call it Google. A few years later they buy themselves a personal jet. This might sound normal until you realize that the jet is a Boeing 767!

Check it out in Silicon Beat.

Google Sitemaps Results

Michael — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:56:39 +0000

I mentioned before that I started using Google Sitemaps to give my site better representation in Google’s search results. I thought I’d give you an update on my experience so far.

First, my site is getting crawled more often. However, I don’t know how often because my webhost apparently is having a problem keeping my site logs working. But based on the reports from Google, the site is getting crawled. I’ve added some new HTML to the site that allow Google to find more of my pages.

However, the results have been kind of odd. Many of my pages have been turned into supplemental reults and now some are going URL only. I’ll keep you posted on whether this problem works itself out as Googlebot crawls my site more!

Google Maps gets new feature

Michael — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 21:14:06 +0000

I’ve mentioned Google Maps before, but I thought I’d point out that they just added a “hybrid” feature where you can overlay maps and satellite images. I’ve been saying they should add this. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who thought so because they finally did it.

Searching my site/blog

Michael — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 00:38:45 +0000

Using I set up my site with Google’s new service, Google Sitemaps. It should result in better indexing of my site by Google. This means you’ll get more accurate results and some of the lag I’ve mentioned before will no longer be a problem when I make changes.

Google Earth

Michael — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:45:49 +0000

Everyone knows that Google is the best site to use for searching, but Google is slowly becoming a huge company that offers a wide array of services. the coolest new one that I’ve seen recently is Google Earth. It’s not web-based, but is an application you can download and install. If you’ve used Google Maps, you already know that Google bought out Keyhole and now has satellite imagery available. Google Earth takes this one step farther. In this program you can zoom through maps, and use them in all kinds of ways. It even has 3 dimensional representations of buildings so you can fly through cities.

It’s tough to explain all the useful features, but once you download it it you’ll see how much fun it is to play with even if you don’t have a serious use for it.

Oh yeah, and it’s free. Get it at http://earth.google.com.

Run, Googlebot, Run!

Michael — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:06:27 +0000

If you’ve tried using the Google Search box on my homepage lately, you may have noticed a lot of broken results. When I updated my site, I changed the directory structure and until the Googlebot crawls my site again, Google’s indexing still points to the old files. They usually crawl the site at least once a month so you should see it updated anytime now.