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Happy birthday, Samuel Morse – from Google

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…Continue Reading…

Google Bus to take Road Trip to USC

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.

themiddleclass.org Review

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……Continue Reading…

USC Blackboard, Google Apps Down

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…Continue Reading…

20 Days Until Christmas: A Reflection

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…Continue Reading…

Financial Hack and Black Friday

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…Continue Reading…