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Is Google god or bad?

Published on Mon 21 of Nov, 2005

Besides Sony's enormously dumb DRM-fiasco there is one other news circulating heavily on the internet currently. Google's shipping container. "A shipping container?!" I hear you ask. Yes, a shipping container - packed with 5000 Opterons and 3.5 ))PetaBytes(( of storage capacity. I bet the NSA would like to have some of those! ;)
Here is a well written prediction of Google's plans:
Google-Mart at PBS
I'm eager to see, what this guy will have to say next week...

Google fun of the day

Published on Sun 20 of Nov, 2005

Go to Google
enter "failure"
hit "I'm feeling lucky"
laugh
spread the word

;)

A reason to get an Apple and not an IBM Laptop...

Published on Sun 20 of Nov, 2005

... is the metal cover and the fancy things you can do with it - like tattoo it! :)
Laser edged powerbook

What would I put there?
What would be cool enough?
What would be an image I could live with?
Argh - the same problems as with thinking about a tattoo.. I'll better go with an IBM! ;)
But cool photos nevertheless! :)

MIT does, what's said to be impossible in Ilmenau

Published on Sat 19 of Nov, 2005

I have been ranting a lot about the stubborn staff at Ilmenau's university. Go tell 'em, that students shall create and improve the study materials, that this information should be free. Try to explain to them, that collaboration with other universities will improve and that professors will need less time to do more. You'll get laughed and shouted at.
Well, MIT again understands all this. And they even start to build a network.
MIT OpenCourseWare

In Ilmenau some study materials are even password-protected - I never understood the logic behind that!

Let's see, how long Ilmenau's good reputation can keep up with those antique and lame politics...