Friday, December 31, 2004
Googling New Year’s Resolutions
- “In 2005 I want to increase average share size but decrease the total number of basket instruments.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to try new things; maybe not everyday, but at least once a month, I plan to do something that I haven’t done before.” ...
- “I want to fight five times in 2005. I want to defend my title (NABO Junior Welterweight title).” ...
- “In 2005 I want to (...) find and use daily a good excercise tape for wheelchair bound people.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to have a closer walk with the Lord. I am believing Him for some great things.” ...
- “I want happiness in 2005. I want to see Jack and Erica married.” ...
- In 2005, I want to see a new emphasis on discipline and order in the classroom.” ...
- “Can’t wait for National Conference in 2005! I want to win the free hotels and earn free registration!” ...
- “In 2005, I want to do between 5,000 - 5,500 miles.” ...
- “In 2005 i want to commit to going to a church and getting plugged in with a small group.” ...
- “I’m ready to step up, I want a world title shot in 2005. I want to take risks, I want to fight the best.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to hear about your concerns, your hopes.” ...
- “When I get home sometime in 2005 I want to personally thank each and everyone of you personally, for you are my hero.” ...
- “After I graduate in 2005 I want to attend medical school.” ...
- “In 2005, I want to: Lose weight. Stop Smoking. Exercise more. Save money. Be nicer to my family. Volunteer my time. Travel more.” ...
- “In 2005, I want to greatly extend our individual tuition provision so that every learner has the chance to have one-to-one tutorials regularly.” ...
- “I just want to know that I will be going to school somewhere in 2005. I want to go overseas, but I think that I should get my feet planted somewhere first.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to run a fast marathon.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to change the nature of the board... my goal is to try & be both a resource of information but also some practical advice.” ...
- “But I’m definitely finding my way. Hmmmm So in 2005 I want to crank out a few dozen websites, that have real targetted traffic and that sell.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to slow down and actually pay full attention.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to maximise the value of my pension scheme but conditions could be tough.” ...
- “I’ll state my goal: in 2005, I want to return to giving at least 10% of gross income away.” ...
- “For the Reboot in 2005 I want to introduce a comprehensive set of icons for the primary navigation.” ...
- “In 2005, I want to find some way to get blues into the schools, both here and back home in West Virginia.” ...
- “After I graduate in 2005, I want to do something entrepreneurial and be in business for myself.” ...
- “After I retire from work in 2005 I want to visit South Africa as I have some photos of Cape Town that my grandfather took in about 1910.” ...
- “In 2005, I want to have a comic written.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to own my own fitness/dance business.” ...
- “In 2005 I want to do a float trip for Moose and bear.” ...
- “In 2005, I want to: Learn to Sew. Learn more about motorcyle repair/maintenance.” ...
- “I’m down with fat. In 2005 I want to be sexily plump, tight, and glossy as a seal.” ...
20 Years of Windows
2005 will see the anniversary of 20 years of Microsoft Windows 1. (For the record, here’s Windows 2, and 3.)
Google on 60 Minutes
Google this Sunday gets profiled on US TVs 60 Minutes.
Google New Year’s Logo 2005
Google launched its New Year’s logo (this is a direct link to the image, and I can’t see the logo on the main page at this moment.) The logo shows a “2005” as colored shadow behind the letters “Google”, and looks a lot cooler than the cartoon animals we had in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. Google’s still-not-public Gmail has a special 2005 logo as well. [Via Dirson.]
Google vs Open Source Community
Krzysztof Kowalczyk in “Google - we take it all, give nothing back” complains Google Inc. isn’t giving back to the Open Source community:
“Lets estimate how much money did Google save by using open source software that they would otherwise have to purchase. The operating system for tens of thousands of their computers. Web servers they use. All the Unix utilities they use. Editors, compilers and debuggers they use to write their code. E-mail smtp server. E-mail pop servers. Languages like Perl and Python. Databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its safe to say that if Richard Stallman was never born, the licenses for those kinds of software would cost them tens of millions of dollars.
And what does Google contribute back? Where are their patches to gcc, gdb, python, postgresql, sendmail, emacs? (...)
Is Google (or any other company) that benefits so much from open-source obliged to contribute back? And I dont mean in a token way, like donating $100 to Mozilla foundation. Im talking about investing at least 10% of estimated savings back into open source. Either by donating money to established venues like EFF, FSF, Mozilla Foundation or by hiring developers to spend all their time developing the code for open-source projects.”
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