Microsoft’s Bing Search engine has launched. Reviews overall have been generally positive, and it’s great for search competition to have a serious player release a product to rival Google. Monopolies are bad for innovation, bad for progress, and Google with it’s nearly 70% market share has close to a monopoly on the search market. I’ve [...]

Google makes its money from advertising. Everyone knows this. Earlier today, Firefox was not rendering a page correctly, so I switched over to Internet Explorer hoping it would. As I did so, something dawned upon me: I haven’t seen an online advertisement in over three years, let alone clicked one. For example, one website that [...]

http://photo.askthefool.com is back. It has new pictures from my Alaska trip and a few from this year. Oxford pictures are still down as they still need pruning, date fixing, enhancing, and tagging. The main problem with them is I need to synchronize timestamps from different people’s pictures. Technical note: While my new photo gallery still [...]