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Google Hiccups and Normalizing the Vector

By on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 | No Comments

Google Chrome

Gmail is having problems. Could it be the network is just getting too big? Google has thousands of servers providing access to Gmail for millions of users. According to Social Media Today:

The issue’s description says that while some users received the 502 error when logging in, others had latency in accessing their emails…. 502 errors usually happen due to poor IP communication between servers. There have been a number of previous occasions when Google users have encountered a similar error, but this seems to be the first time when its has affected a multitude of Google services.

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Your Memory is a Movie Trailer

By on Friday, April 12th, 2013 | No Comments

Monitoring Memory of Suspicious Processes

How does memory work and why?

Think back on when you saw the movie Star Wars (I use this movie because I believe every English speaking person has seen it). What images flash into your mind? What individual parts do you remember?

Perhaps it was the opening credits with the giant Imperial warship shooting at the tiny luxury ship. Or the spiralling stars when the Millenium Falcon plunged into hyperdrive. Perhaps the image of the desert on Tatooine?  Maybe it was Chewbacca playing holographic chess, or maybe the final explosion of the Death Star. I know I always picture the scenes that take place in the weapons locker and garbage disposal.

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Ah, Tish!

By on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 | No Comments

Money (Pink Floyd song)

Tish? Funny word. Here’s the story.

I noticed some time ago that in the lyrics to Pink Floyd’s “Money” song, when played over the air on the radio, had been “cleaned up” a bit. The verse “Money, it’s a hit | Don’t give me that | Do goody good bullshit” had been changed to ”Money, it’s a hit | Don’t give me that | Do goody good bullTISH“.

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I Really Want to Learn How to Write… Good… uh, Well…

By on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 | No Comments

A Writing Kind of Day

I was waiting for a haircut yesterday at SportClips in Eagle. I read through all the latest Facebook posts available  on my phone, then I changed the setting to show “a week” in stead of 3 days, and read through all the rest of them. Still bored. So, I picked up an issue of Eagle magazine and started flipping through the pages.

The thought, “Why can’t I write like that?” popped into my mind. The words and phrases just seemed to flow together, and in some cases, jumped off the page. The contributors to the magazine were far more adept at slinging words around than I.

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Google is Not “Magic”

By on Saturday, March 16th, 2013 | No Comments

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A few recent posts by Becker at Source-Wave.com have confirmed my faith that at least some of the internet gurus are not complete idiots. Becker, a few others like Jon Leger, “get it” – Google is not spying on you with a all-seeing crystal ball. I know, I’m a programmer, and some of the rumors surrounding the “power” of Google and SEO/IM just blows my mind.

Becker explained it best, I think – Google has a set of metrics (another term for measurements) that they use to rank sites. If you fit into a good metric, you get points. If you fit into a bad metric, you lose points. It’s as simple as that.

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