Hurray, Google is 7!

The brainchild of two friends, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google has finally transform and
change the way we use the web/internet.

When anyone tells you they need to do some research, you simply tell them (without blinking an eye) to "Google It" first, isn't that wonderful and when they do; am that sure they will get something useful. The web as unwiedley as it is, have been turned into an information goldmine for those that knows the power of Google.

Google is an had i know for David Filo (Yahoo founder), cos if he had foresee what Google would eventually become, he would have gracefully jump at the offer to help them (Larry and Sergey) when they turned to him instead of telling them "When it's fully developed and scalable, (now Google has the most scalable data center in the world) " he told them, "let's talk again." Now Google beats Yahoo hands down in the numbers of queries they handle per day, isn't that wonderful.

But i thank God that he failed to, if David Filo has funded Larry Page and Sergey Brin then am sure Google/BackRub would have been a dead dream by now.

Food for thought:
Whatever you can do today you must not postpone till tomorrow, those smart guys left their Ph.D. program to pursue their dreams, am sure hey have not regreted that step. Now they have some of the brightest Ph.Ds in Computer Science on their payroll.

Never give up on your dreams, just; Think Big, Start Small and Grow.

My Wishes:
I hope Google will finally release their own browser and ultimately the much anticipated OS (Google OS).

The End is Nigh. (9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014)

The End is Nigh. (9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014)

According to this report by Yahoo, the much-anticipated end of the world may finally happen on 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014.

Mind you am not a prophet of doom, and don’t stop working because of this report.

Below is the report.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Discovered April 6 by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the swirling, 10 million-mile- wide cosmic dust cloud has been likened to an "acid nebula" and is hurtling toward us at close to the speed of light -- making its estimated time of arrival 9:15 a.m. EDT on June 1, 2014. "The good news is that this finding confirms several cutting- edge ideas in theoretical physics," announced Dr. Albert Sherwinski, a Cambridge based astrophysicist with close ties to NASA. "The bad news is that the total annihilation of our solar system is imminent." Experts believe the chaos cloud is composed of particles spawned near the event horizon of a black hole (a form of what's called Hawking Radiation) that have been distorted by mangled information spewed from the hole. "A super-massive black hole lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth at the center of our galaxy," explained Dr. Sherwinski. "Last year the eminent physicist Stephen Hawking revised his theory of black holes -- which previously held that nothing could escape the hole's powerful gravitational field. He demonstrated that information about objects that have been sucked in can be emitted in mangled form. "It now appears that mangled information can distort matter. "Just imagine our galaxy the Milky Way as a beautiful, handwritten letter. "Now imagine pouring a glass of water on the paper and watching the words dissolve as the stain spreads. That's what the chaos cloud does to every star or planet it encounters." To avoid widespread panic, NASA has declined to make the alarming discovery public. But Dr. Sherwinski's contacts at the agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory leaked to him striking images of the newly discovered chaos cloud obliterating a large asteroid. "It's like watching a helpless hog being dissolved in a vat of acid," one NASA scientist told Dr. Sherwinski. Ordinarily, Hawkings Radiation is harmless. "It's produced when an electron- positron pair are at the event horizon of a black hole," Dr. Sherwinski explained. "The intense curvature of space-time of the hole can cause the positron to fall in, while the electron escapes." But when "infected" by mangled information from the black hole, the particles become a chaos cloud, which in turn mangles everything it touches. "If it continues unchecked, the chaos cloud will eventually reduce our galaxy to the state of absolute chaos that existed before the birth of the universe," the astrophysicist warned. Some scientists say mankind's best hope would be to build a "space ark" and hightail it to the Andromeda Galaxy, 2.1 million light-years away. "We wouldn't be able to save the entire human population, but perhaps the best and the brightest," observed British rocket scientist Dr. David Hall, when asked about the feasibility of such a project. But even if such a craft could be built in time, evacuating Earth might prove fruitless if theories about the origin of the chaos cloud are correct. "A black hole at the center of Andromeda is about 15 times the size of the one in our own galaxy," Dr. Sherwinski noted. "It might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a senior White House official said the president's top science advisors are taking the findings in stride. "This is a lot like global warming, where the jury is still out on whether it's real or not," said the official. "The existence of this so called chaos cloud is only a theory. Americans shouldn't panic until all the facts are in."

Hurray, 240-Mbit WIFI Coming Soon.

A wireless chipset that could deliver (theoretically) 250MB/s of data is now in the offing thanks to the innovative work been done by Airgo Networks, according to this report by extremetech.com.

I hope Access Points(AP) and wireless NIC with these chipset will be available and affordable soon.

One of the main drawback that I personally don’t like about wireless networks is the speed limitation when compared to wired Ethernet, I hope this will change that soon.

And i wish...

I wish there's 24/7 power (electricity) supply without all the frequent blackout, load-sheddings and low currents.

I wish NEPA(sorry PHCN) could b more responsive when a complaint is lodged with them.

I wish NEPA technicians and officials won't demand for some kickbacks before coming to fix their stuffs.

I wish generator noise and polutions could become a thing of the past.

I wish Obasanjo could get serious with the selling of NEPA than castigating Atiku.

I wish i can stop buying fuels for generators.

I wish all these wishes come true soon.

Introducing Google Voice Search.

And the goodies keeps coming; Google the undisputed king of search has now done it again, this time around bringing out Google Voice Search.

According to Google this new system work as listed below:

"To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 623-6706.
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results."

But the unfortunate part is that the new offering is not for people in countries like Nigeria where ordinary “080” call is a burden already not to talk about calling “oyinbo man’s land”.

This ingenuity is unrivalled; I hope the new service live up to users expectations.

Trump: The Blogger.

Last night a stumbled across Donald Trump’s blog and I was really thrilled to read some of his posts. I have always fancied him for his business acumen and “never die” attitudes. This man bemoans rising fuel prices (oga o…so the rich also cry) even to the extent of proposing Naija’s death sentence, “alternative fuel”. I hope Nigerian leaders will wake up before OPEC fully becomes a byword. Anyway, I dey kampe.

With his recent foray into the educational sector Trump University (online only), you can only expect the very best from this man that like to stage unprecedented comebacks.

Google Desktop Search (GDS) and your Privacy.

Google Desktop Search (GDS) is a really cool tool that bring the power of Google powerful search algorithm right into your PC. With GDS you can search for files/words (and, even words/sentence(s) within a file) instead of using the built in search facility in your Windows PC. Apart from it’s searching capability you can also enrich it by downloading some other useful plugins and alerts (see picture >>) from http://desktop.google.com/plugins?hl=en, and if you will like to develop your own plugins and alerts, you can download the SDK from here http://desktop.google.com/developer.html . Google said you could use any language that supports COM and XML to develop your own plugins and alerts, and you can also embed GDS right into your own application; hmmm… super cool (I wish they could let developers “adsense” that way). If GDS is running when you open Google’s homepage you will seethe following menu: Web Images Groups News Desktop more »

Caveat:
GDS won’t work if you are using a proxy in your Internet connection setting in Internet Explorer except you tell Internet Explorer to exclude http://localhost:4664/ (this is the local address for GDS Server on my system and on most default installations).As with all technology, GDS has its own good/bad side (depending on your perspective on this), and this is its ability to grab screenshots of webpages. Now you don’t need a screen grabbing software, you can easily see all or part of any webpage and web based e-mail that might have been access on a system with GDS installed on it. Just search for a likely keyword that you know must have appeared on that webpage or inbox and GDS will gracefully display a screenshot of the webpage for you, (I leave the good and bad effect of that to your imagination). If you have nothing to hide I don’t think you should worry much about this, else…run.Some people also talk about the search index taking up all the available space on their system, am not sure this is possible, Google herself would have run out of storage space if that is the case (hope you catch my drift here). Am still doing some research on that though.

Conclusion:
Take GDS for a spin today and see if it lives up to the hype or not. GDS main rival right now is MSN Search Toolbar from Microsoft; I don’t really like it though, (too heavy).

NOTE:
GDS as at September 4, 2005 is still in beta stage.

In times like this...

The storm howled... floodwaters took over what thousands called home, Katrina leave sorrow and anarchy in her wake… (Dear Lord, may your peace be with all people on the face of the earth. Amen).

And here in Nigeria life goes on (their problem is not our proble, abi?), we kept arguing why Obasanjo increased petrol pump price (forgeting that what happened thousands of miles away determine the price we pay for that fuel in our vehicles and generators). Too bad, and am part of the ungrateful privileged , ever eager to bewail why we were born in this part of the world…, quick to point to America where everything work like a charm, never minding the price(s) they and their forebears have paid.

But wait, Katrina was Mother Nature’s handiwork, but here manmade catastrophes like corruption, torture, bribery, non-payment of salary and pension, unstable/unavailable power supply, hunger, assassination, extra judicial killings and other countless avertable calamities are giving us hell on earth.

When will we sail/swim from these self-inflicted Katarina? When will we say the Storm is Over? (Perhaps when all these corrupt leaders are nomore, how long do we have to wait? Only God knows.)

Dear Lord, see to the supplications of all refuges, (from Sudan to Sierra-Leone, from Liberia to Bosnia, from Israel to USA.) Let the earth rejoice in your glory.

And bring to shame the enemies of this nation (Nigeria) into shame and disrepute. Amen.