With all the talk about how terrible Vista, you would figure people would be running away from Windows.  It is strange that Parallels hit 1 million users.  I guess many still have to use Windows for work related purposes or maybe, Windows is not so bad after all?  I tried Vista and it was stable but slow.  I missed how fast XP was and missed Ubuntu even more.  But I do like all the driver support of Windows and do like the fact that hardware worked out of the box.  Maybe I am not alone.

Wow it has been a bit since my last posting.  Between completing a project at work and all the soccer/music duties I have after five, the evenings are spent watching a movie with Keyla or jumping on the PS3 for a quick game of Warhawk (still addicted to that game).  So here is what’s going on lately… Continue reading

There are reports leaking about Google’s latest beta tool bar that, when you navigate to a broken link, will lead you to Google’s custom 404 page for search. So I had to find out for myself by installing the beta tool bar for IE. Interesting results on my own domain. For my root domain of ruizology.com where I have a very basic search algorithm for lost links, I had to specify a specific page (i.e. this is a broken link) before my personal 404 page was hijacked by Google. On this sub-domain where I have instant search using ajax, there was never a redirect to Google’s 404 search page (ie. another broken link on tech). I guess it all depends on how you set up your domain. If you have a default 404 page, it will trigger Google to redirect the request. Not necessarily a bad idea for old Web 1.0 sites but it is disturbing that when you look at the url, it still looks like you are on the site that is broken.

Bloggers on the web are raising the question of how Google is using it’s power to direct traffic to it’s site, though you did add a tool bar called ‘Google’s Toolbar’ to start the whole process. This is not an inherent property of the browser you were using. Plus Google gives you easy to find instructions on how to disable the 404 feature. I guess I am still on the side that Google is in clear water, though I can understand why others are mindful of the direction Google is taking. I do not contest that Google is becoming the next Microsoft, I just think that their approach is more open to options for the end-user vs. how Microsoft handled users’ requests. I hope they keep that mentality on every project they work on.

So the big announcement this last week from Apple was the new impossibly-thin notebook called Macbook Air. Here is a quick ad for the new lappy:

You knew someone was going to make a parody:

Funny and true! So I need to start selling organs for both the iphone and for this new macbook. Damn you Apple…

The Macbook Air is sweet all by itself but the multi-touch trackpad is hella-cool.  Damn I wish I had this on my laptop: