09.15.08
Gosh, Matt. Do you mean like Google vs Microsoft?
Captured from Matt Cutts’ Twitter:
TechTags Plugin [ Matt Cutts | Twitter | Microsoft ]
09.08.08
Contenerte - Rich content for websites in Spanish
José Ferrer has launched contenterte, a Spanish web content extraction service. His blog in Spanish is here.
I would just like to wish him the very best of luck
09.04.08
Sarah Palin and Hilary Clinton
There’s some talk that Sarah Palin was chosen as McCain’s running mate, because of her potential to capture the disenfranchised Hilary vote.
That seemed to me unlikely. Hilary’s voters may be from the more conservative of Democrats, but have no comparison to Palin’s rabid right.
Then it occurred to me that both would be good in the role of the mother in The Manchurian Candidate.
Google Chrome - Yes, it’s good but…
I’ve downloaded and tested it, and I like it. It won’t get me off Firefox yet because I’m so hooked on my plug-ins, and actually the thing I least like about Chrome is that I wish Mozilla had built it.
When Google was born, it was a white page with a search box, and little more. That was the reason it first one favour with geeks and then more normal people. Now Google is competing to be the world’s biggest ad agency, and tomorrow wants to be the new Microsoft. It’s a fantastic business that barely puts a foot wrong. But the net, just like the high street, is losing its diversity, and that is very boring, very dull.
The UK’s high street has M&S, Boots and Tesco. Tesco does everything. It wants to be your supermarket, your corner shop, your petrol station and your tailor. Here in Spain everthing is sold by El Corte Ingles, who also want to be all things to everyone.
I am not so much in a hurry that I want a one-stop shop for everything. I want variation and niche specialists like Mozilla. I don’t want another Tesco.
09.02.08
Experiment with Wordpress and Facebook
Can I get the two to link up? Watch this space.
TechTags Plugin [ wordpress | wordbook | facebook ]
They’re so good at Google they make me want to puke.
They don’t just want to launch another browser, they want to change the world. Just like Jesus.
Source: http://snurl.com/3m4ye [books_google_com]
09.01.08
Traumatic first day
Today was the day Leo, 10 months’ old, paid his first visit to the nursery.
Here in Spain, statutory maternity leave only lasts four months. After that it’s unpaid. I won’t get into how dreadful a policy I believe that to be.
My wife and I decided that, with Leo, we could afford for mummy to stay off work until the start of the new academic year - she’s a teacher. Her career is important to her (as mine is to me) so there was always going to be a trade off. This morning I took the bitter pill and dropped him off at the nursery.
He didn’t cry, which was a blessing, but when I picked him up two hours later his little face told me that he hadn’t appreciated it. He seems to have forgiven me, but then there’s tomorrow. The modern world gives babies a hard time.
