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Bill Gates concedes to Linux

Adam — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:06:59 +0000

… at least according to an official microsoft website.

As you can see, Microsoft is stupidly using a query string to pass an error message. In case they fix this problem (which they no doubt will) I have added a screenshot to the right.

Absolute web development lunacy.

Update: The page has already been fixed.

Bittorrent is the devil

Adam — Sun, 22 May 2005 08:06:24 +0000

So, the MPAA has seen fit to accuse the BitTorrent protocol of eating away at the launch-day earnings of Star Wars Episode III.

I am sure George Lucas is collecting all of his food stamps and lining up at the local welfare office following such a blatent robbery of his small-time earner. The movie only made ~$50 million or so… IN ONE FREAKING DAY! Surely BitTorrent is to blame for such poor earnings.

The consipracy theories abound, but I think one Slashdotter put it best:

I believe it was BitTorrent on the Grassy Knoll. BitTorrent also touched those boys at Michael Jackson’s pad.
This is like blaming Boeing for destroying the World Trade Center.

BitTorrent be damned.

Gmail now offering 2gig?

Adam — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 22:28:27 +0000

Sometime yesterday I noticed my Gmail account’s available storage was ever slowly going up! First 1500MB, then 1700MB, and this morning I wake up to see the following:

I wonder if that is where it will stop. One would assume so, but with Google you never know. (And the fact that it is 2051MB and not 2048 – a true 2 gigabytes – is also a little odd).

Update: Well it looks like Google are going to scale Gmail storage quotas almost indefinately and in real time. My quota is now 2057MB at 6:56pm AEST 4/4/2005.

Google-bomb… without the bomb

Adam — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:06:43 +0000

More like a Google-firecracker than a Google-bomb.

So it turns out that currently, 38.6% of all of my Google-searcher traffic is looking for the phrase “firefox settings”. Also, all of that traffic seems to be going directly to my short article about, wouldn’t you know it, Remote Firefox Settings. How could this be?

Well as it turns out, that dodgy little article is number one in Google for a search of "firefox settings".

Beats me as to why such a tiny, unimportant and uninformed couple of paragraphs would be so highly ranked by the Googleplex, but in case the inevitable occurs and I am knocked from the number one position, here is the proof:

According to Google, I am number one out of “about 1,390,000″. All I can say is, bizarre.

Update: It appears the recent downtime I had on this server has booted me from number one. Se la vis!

Update 2: It seems I am back to number one. Just goes to show how much a bit of downtime hurts you in Google ranking.