Gatorade
I was told because of its replenishing properties, it's original purpose was a cure for the old hangover. Apparently, Gatorade is available in the UK. But I've failed to see anywhere. It's far popular in North America where my favourite is the grape favoured edition.
Tennis
You can get your latest tennis score at tennis.com. Been following Anne Keothavong the last few months. She's been playing well enough on the LTA circuit to get into the top 50. Unfortunately for her, she's drawn world no.1 and well rested Dinara Safina.
Private Prosecution
I find it funny that someone has decided to personally give Jacqui Smith a private prosecution
Google
Just to show how reliant the Internet is on Google, there have been couple of instance where the Internet has grinded to a halt due Google servers going down. The first occasion last week was due to routing mistake. This affected all Google services. Now a lot of websites use google analytics for instance and as a consequence those websites were performing slowly. Another outage took down most news-related sites down for 15 minutes. Not clever.
Also Gumblar is on the prowl!
5 C's
Car, Career, Cash, Condo, Credit Card?
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Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Friday, 22 May 2009
Monday, 11 May 2009
Random Musings - Day #131
A is for...
Funny game, my sister came up with whilst in the car. Go through A-Z of food-types. For some reason, we kept coming up with animals instead... e.g. Dog, Frog, Llama, Orangutan!
Engineering works
I was annoyed on Saturday that there was engineering works to work. I lost 30 minutes waiting for a replacement bus. Another 15 minutes waiting at one station and another 20 minutes waiting at another one. So that sucked over an hour of my life away.
But engineering works weren't done yet. They were overrunning and hence this morning, my train was cancelled. Another half hour of my life... gone!
Mashup
If I haven't mentioned it before but this is a great mashup of Need you tonight.
Javascript is your friend
You can write text using fromCharCode. Very useful, if your quotation marks are escaped and you need to bypass it (cough). There is a comprehensive list of charcodes. Javascriptkit offers additional string functions.
Google hacked / Cassie naked?
I was looking for more details about Google getting hacked instead I got Cassie getting naked...
Seriously though, there was a universal xss issue with ALL google services which looks like has just been fixed.
Acai Berry Scam
It's the second time, I've got a random offline message from a contact.
I've not seen anything specific relating to ads in msn messenger... The actual pills themselves are apparently a rip-off!
The Wicked Fire hints the problem could with account being hacked. This blog claims it's a msn virus of some description...
Whatever happened to...
90's divas, Dina Carroll and Shola Ama?
Funny game, my sister came up with whilst in the car. Go through A-Z of food-types. For some reason, we kept coming up with animals instead... e.g. Dog, Frog, Llama, Orangutan!
Engineering works
I was annoyed on Saturday that there was engineering works to work. I lost 30 minutes waiting for a replacement bus. Another 15 minutes waiting at one station and another 20 minutes waiting at another one. So that sucked over an hour of my life away.
But engineering works weren't done yet. They were overrunning and hence this morning, my train was cancelled. Another half hour of my life... gone!
Mashup
If I haven't mentioned it before but this is a great mashup of Need you tonight.
Javascript is your friend
You can write text using fromCharCode. Very useful, if your quotation marks are escaped and you need to bypass it (cough). There is a comprehensive list of charcodes. Javascriptkit offers additional string functions.
Google hacked / Cassie naked?
I was looking for more details about Google getting hacked instead I got Cassie getting naked...
Seriously though, there was a universal xss issue with ALL google services which looks like has just been fixed.
Acai Berry Scam
It's the second time, I've got a random offline message from a contact.
I got so many messages about those acai berry pills that I decided to order them and guess what? I lost 23 pounds so far and its only been two weeks. I am living proof that they work and best part was, they only cost me five dollars to try over at http://weekcome.com
I've not seen anything specific relating to ads in msn messenger... The actual pills themselves are apparently a rip-off!
The Wicked Fire hints the problem could with account being hacked. This blog claims it's a msn virus of some description...
Whatever happened to...
90's divas, Dina Carroll and Shola Ama?
Friday, 20 March 2009
Random Musings - Day #79
Google Street View
Apparently, Google Street view has been around for a few months but it's been introduced to London to a mixed reaction.
People have coming out with privacy concerns.
People caught in compromising positions (e.g. leaving sex shops, being sick, etc) have been pulled. Another concern was that not all number plates weren't fuzzed out upon release. Also entrances to high profile organisations were not consulted (e.g. MI5)
I live on the outskirts of London and it appears that there is no street view for my street.
This could be because of the constant roadworks in the way or the fact google's equipment would probably be ransacked and vandalised by the friendly locals.
Twin Cats
My mate put his milk bottles out and saw a cat leap out and then jump over the neighbour's fence. He thought it was my cat!
He got his shoes on and tried to entice my cat back home. I decided to help out, so I got to my room and picked up a pair of shoes. When I got there, there was a cat lying in bed waiting for me. My housemate saw the wrong cat. Funny!
Champions League Draw
I really think Arsenal got the best deal out of the draw for the Champions League. They avoided all the other English sides plus Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Furthermore, only Man Utd stand in their way of the final. They could go all the way! This is reflected in the odds for Arsenal to win the Champions League reduced to 7-1. Talking of odds, Charlton are 1-66 to get relegated again. Here's a fact, Charlton have lost 6 times after scoring first (out of 13). They were Preston (away), Wolves (home), Sheff Wed (home), Sheff Utd (away), Burnley (away), Bristol City (away). If they won those games, particularly the former games, they wouldn't be in the mess they are in now.
Cleared for driving too fast
This cracked me up. A man who drove 173mph was cleared when the prosecution could not prove that the car was capable of reaching that speed!
What's on in London
New Boy is a play that stars "About a boy" and "Skins" star Nicholas Hoult and is a comedy/play set/about school-life. It's got ok reviews. The cast is good but it's too short and the material quite risque. Its run ends on April 11. Meanwhile Avenue Q is moving to the Gielgud Theatre and will recommence performances on June 1.
Also I see Wallace & Gromit are fronting "A world of cracking ideas" at the Science Museum (from March 28 to November 1). There's also the Ideal Home Show, which started today and runs until April 13.
Apparently, Google Street view has been around for a few months but it's been introduced to London to a mixed reaction.
People have coming out with privacy concerns.
People caught in compromising positions (e.g. leaving sex shops, being sick, etc) have been pulled. Another concern was that not all number plates weren't fuzzed out upon release. Also entrances to high profile organisations were not consulted (e.g. MI5)
I live on the outskirts of London and it appears that there is no street view for my street.
This could be because of the constant roadworks in the way or the fact google's equipment would probably be ransacked and vandalised by the friendly locals.
Twin Cats
My mate put his milk bottles out and saw a cat leap out and then jump over the neighbour's fence. He thought it was my cat!
He got his shoes on and tried to entice my cat back home. I decided to help out, so I got to my room and picked up a pair of shoes. When I got there, there was a cat lying in bed waiting for me. My housemate saw the wrong cat. Funny!
Champions League Draw
I really think Arsenal got the best deal out of the draw for the Champions League. They avoided all the other English sides plus Barcelona and Bayern Munich. Furthermore, only Man Utd stand in their way of the final. They could go all the way! This is reflected in the odds for Arsenal to win the Champions League reduced to 7-1. Talking of odds, Charlton are 1-66 to get relegated again. Here's a fact, Charlton have lost 6 times after scoring first (out of 13). They were Preston (away), Wolves (home), Sheff Wed (home), Sheff Utd (away), Burnley (away), Bristol City (away). If they won those games, particularly the former games, they wouldn't be in the mess they are in now.
Cleared for driving too fast
This cracked me up. A man who drove 173mph was cleared when the prosecution could not prove that the car was capable of reaching that speed!
What's on in London
New Boy is a play that stars "About a boy" and "Skins" star Nicholas Hoult and is a comedy/play set/about school-life. It's got ok reviews. The cast is good but it's too short and the material quite risque. Its run ends on April 11. Meanwhile Avenue Q is moving to the Gielgud Theatre and will recommence performances on June 1.
Also I see Wallace & Gromit are fronting "A world of cracking ideas" at the Science Museum (from March 28 to November 1). There's also the Ideal Home Show, which started today and runs until April 13.
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Google is your friend - You can find anything, well almost anything
As a friend once said to me, 'Google is your friend' and you can find anything.
Some searches are easy, some are hard and some are downright frustrating. Looking for something popular, e.g. perl, mysql or david hasselhoff, it's very easy as what you are looking for is usually at the top of the list and on the first page of Google.
Looking for something in particular and generally not as well known is a little harder as what you are looking for is unlikely to be at the top. Take 'Jo King' for example. There are probably more popular people and organisations with that name. Naturally, you would enter some additional points to identify your 'Jo King'. Even then you still have to be even more specific. That's the frustrating and time-consuming part.
Just as frustrating is when you can't find any details about the subject or the exact context.
e.g. you are searching for an example of how to do a perl build...
Conversely, I am trying to get my name out from the Google search engine as much as I can but
unfortunately my name is tarnished and a few results pop up albeit it's old stuff. A few months ago, I discovered my name and address listed on alexa due to the fact that a previous domain that I let expire still had my details even though it was bought out by someone else. It was a bit of a mission getting a contact to erase these details. I remember I had to change these details in two places as well.
Anyone doesn't have their name found in Google is doing a great job. I have pay due to my ex. I can't find anything on her!
Anyways you can find a lot of stuff about companies. One thing I am getting good at is finding ip address ranges of companies just by name/location. The first thing to do is find a domain name. Most companies will have a site. The next thing to do is to whois is on it. You will probably find the domain is hosted. However, it is likely that the company if they are connected to the
Internet will have other services like mail services, proxies, etc. All these services should connect somewhere to the Internet and like I say, 'like Shakira's hips, the logs don't lie'.
Logs can be found by searching Google. So do a random search on the domain name found plus a keyword that would trigger log-files being found (e.g. log, vpn...)
Once you have a sub-domain, do a lookup and whois to get their range and see if they own it.
Some searches are easy, some are hard and some are downright frustrating. Looking for something popular, e.g. perl, mysql or david hasselhoff, it's very easy as what you are looking for is usually at the top of the list and on the first page of Google.
Looking for something in particular and generally not as well known is a little harder as what you are looking for is unlikely to be at the top. Take 'Jo King' for example. There are probably more popular people and organisations with that name. Naturally, you would enter some additional points to identify your 'Jo King'. Even then you still have to be even more specific. That's the frustrating and time-consuming part.
Just as frustrating is when you can't find any details about the subject or the exact context.
e.g. you are searching for an example of how to do a perl build...
Conversely, I am trying to get my name out from the Google search engine as much as I can but
unfortunately my name is tarnished and a few results pop up albeit it's old stuff. A few months ago, I discovered my name and address listed on alexa due to the fact that a previous domain that I let expire still had my details even though it was bought out by someone else. It was a bit of a mission getting a contact to erase these details. I remember I had to change these details in two places as well.
Anyone doesn't have their name found in Google is doing a great job. I have pay due to my ex. I can't find anything on her!
Anyways you can find a lot of stuff about companies. One thing I am getting good at is finding ip address ranges of companies just by name/location. The first thing to do is find a domain name. Most companies will have a site. The next thing to do is to whois is on it. You will probably find the domain is hosted. However, it is likely that the company if they are connected to the
Internet will have other services like mail services, proxies, etc. All these services should connect somewhere to the Internet and like I say, 'like Shakira's hips, the logs don't lie'.
Logs can be found by searching Google. So do a random search on the domain name found plus a keyword that would trigger log-files being found (e.g. log, vpn...)
Once you have a sub-domain, do a lookup and whois to get their range and see if they own it.
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