gOS

Not sure how many of you have heard of or even looked at the gOS but it might be worth taking a look at especially for older machines.

At work yesterday I took an older machine, about 2000/2001 in age, and installed it on it. It installed clean without any problems. It has just enough tinkering ability to make me happy, but installed as it is is good for a machine for a new user. In fact if you want to you can run it off the CD to kick the tires on it. It is basically an Ubuntu install with a set of special icons, most of which go to Google related tools, hence the name gOS.

I am writing this right now after I hit the Blogger button and firefox opened up to the Blogger site. Clean and easy.

Check it out.

Was P T Barnum correct?

FOXNews.com - Hundreds of PC Users Click On 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad - Technology News | News On Technology:

"No PCs were harmed in this experiment, he emphasizes. The site is benign and has never hosted malware or other scripts or code.

Then he started the Google Adwords campaign, using combinations of the words 'drive-by download' along with the ad, which links to the drive-by-download.info site.

Next, he sat and waited ... for six months.

Over that period, his ad was viewed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times, for a click-through rate of about .16 percent.

The experiment cost him $23, or 6 cents per click/potentially infected machine.

Of the 409 people who clicked, 98 percent were running Windows machines, according to the user agent string, which is a text string that identifies a Web site visitor to a server."

While .16% does not seem like a large number, if done in large enough quantities, it can be a huge number. What is scary here is that people knew what they were clicking on before they clicked it.

Google Land Rush

KOTV.com - The News On 6:

"A new land rush grips a Green Country town. Google's coming to Pryor and catching the attention of land developers. Realtors say the market is the busiest they've ever seen, and News On 6 anchor Omar Villafranca reports Google hasn't even set up shop.

Last month internet giant Google unveiled plans to build a data center in Pryor. Since the announcement, Lee Weems, a Pryor realtor, has been busy.

'We had Gatorade, but as soon as Google came in behind them, it went nuts,' said Weems."

WOW. Google announces that they are going to move into a small Oklahoma city and all of a sudden the land for homes in the area becomes prime real estate. Just wishing that I could get a job with them considering my new status in the employment field.

My House

For those who wonder where I live, this map may help...

Google Reader Users pay attention

Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader - Lifehacker

If you use Google reader a lot (and I do) here are a collection of shortcuts that can be done from the keyboard. Quite a few I knew about already, but there are some great nuggets in there. Enjoy.

Close Up on the Moon

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

Ever wonder what the moon looks like close up. In playing with gUtil I found Google Moon. Pick one of the landing sites and then zoom down on it. It is fascinating what the moon looks like close up.