Thoughts, opinions and fascinating discoveries by Elliot, a student at USC
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Here’s an actual email that I just received:
I can use Google perfectly well on my laptop. Except for one thing. The logo for Google, in red nblue and yellow, at the head of the page, comes out just as dots and dashes. It doesn’t make any difference whether I log in to www.google.com or to www.google.uk.
Tags: birthday, Google, Samuel Morse
Google is doing a Road Trip to showcase some of the universities using Google Apps. And guess which school is first on the list? That’s right: the University of Southern California. They announced the trip in this post. See the route: Google Road Trip: App to School. They’ll be at ‘SC on 9/9/2008.
Tags: Google, road trip, universities, USC
Has anyone heard of the site themiddleclass.org? They advertise with Google AdWords, but their site is bogus. They claim to support the middle class, but the whole thing is a sham. I haven’t looked into it extensively, but it looks sinister. I spent a few minutes gathering other people’s thoughts, and here’s what I found…
Tags: adwords, Google, middle class, scams
Today, USC’s Shibbloeth sign-on software wasn’t working for several hours. That meant blackboard, googleapps, my, and mywiki were down. I think they handled it well, though. They responded quickly to emails, and their phone system had a recording saying that they knew about the problem and were working to fix it. I wonder why it broke?
Tags: blackboard, Google, googleapps, my, mywiki, shibboleth, USC
Can you believe it? It feels like just yesterday I was working at my summer internship with Google. It was truly an amazing experience, and very humbling to work with such bright people. Recently, I’ve been catching myself wishing that other people were smarter. Well, it’s usually me who’s the dumb one. At the same time, I realized the potential I really did have to pull off some crucial projects. I have to be honest: working in Software Quality Assurance Engineering wasn’t a glamorous job. There were times when we simply had to yield to the developers. But having the opportunity to try new features before they hit production, and having the pride of catching a critical bug, were all incredible rushes to have on the job.
Tags: christmas, Google, internet marketer, reflection, Secret Classroom, semester, software quality assurance engineering, USC
Here’s a neat blog I found today called Financial Hack. I read his very interesting post called Screw Black Friday, in which I learned that Black Friday is actually not the biggest shopping day of the year. I tend to agree with that post. I wanted to go shopping on Black Friday just for the fun and experience, but after reading that, I’m now not so sure. I didn’t actually want to buy anything, of course. I just wanted the fun of fighting crowds with friends. That depends on having friends to go with, but I suspect I’d be able to locate a few.
Tags: Adbusters, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, Financial Hack, Google, shopping, Thanksgiving
With 3 days until the New Year, there are 2 obvious things that come to mind: reviewing the year behind us, and looking forward to the year ahead.
Tags: 2008, adsense, archive, baby, bigseminar, bowling, cruise, doslife, georgia tech, Google, langalist, new year, picasa web albums, ratatouille, time
