Entries from October 2006

October 28, 2006

Spoon River Anthology

I just finished reading Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.  It was a very interesting book.  If you have read it, or plan on reading it, it’s like nothing you’ve read before.  It tells the stories of dead citizens of Spoon River, Illinois.  It tells the story through poetry, a short story/poem, and a [...]

October 17, 2006

Google’s Stock Goes Down

Hey my prediction on Google’s stock seems to be right. It has been falling pretty steadily for the last few days. Here’s some graphs via Bloomberg.com:

As you can see the stock for Google has had a pretty significant decline. It was skyrocketing before and that could be argued for either viewpoints. [...]

October 10, 2006

YouTube Goes Google

YouTube has been acquired by Google. What does this mean? Well, I’m thinking a few things. Let’s get the wheel going here.

Google plans to take over the Internet’s video uploading and video blogging services. We all know YouTube was doing way better than Google Video. Now that they have YouTube, [...]

October 4, 2006

Its Been a While

It’s been a little while since I’ve blogged. There’s not a lot to talk about, but I’ll give you a few reviews and such.
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Instructables: step-by-step collaboration- Instructables is a site with some cool projects. You can sign up and contribute yours. Be careful though, some of the projects could be a little [...]

October 1, 2006

A Few Problems in Google Reader

The new Google Reader still has some little bugs to work out.  For example, this morning I was reading one of my feeds when about twenty or thirty blogs down I had found another of my feeds had mixed with it.  Hopefully Google Reader will fix this, but my new feed browsing experience is getting [...]