Original ExistDifferently.com Weblog of David, a Christian Network and Systems Manager, with topics ranging from Apologetics to Worldview, and some crypto, open source, programming, opinion, and daily life thrown in between.

Thu, 2004-12-16 (Dec 16)

Google to Index Books

Filed under: Blog,General,Internet — David @ 18:50

“WorldMagBlog”:http://www.worldmagblog.com is reporting that “Google”:http://www.google.com/ is scanning and indexing the colletctions of books from several major universities and public libraries (if you don’t recognize half the names on the list of sources what planet are you on?) and will have the full text available to search and read by the middle of 2005 (if copyright permits, otherwise an excerpt can be found with a search). Google is becomming more and more useful; heck the other search engines should finish taking their nap and let Google just take over the world at this point. Phone numbers, scholarly journals, as-you-type suggestions, SMS text message searches, locality-based searches, Firefox Start Page hosting…and that’s just the short list!

Can you tell I like Google?

Firefox Ad Hits New York Times!

Filed under: Blog,Mozilla,Open Source,Tech (General),World News — David @ 03:35

This may be one of the few times I can agree with something in the New York Times…figures it would be an ad :-) Anyway, over at “spreadfirefox.com”:http://www.spreadfirefox.com they’ve posted the “announcment about the ad”:http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/8769 and of course “Robert Accettura beat me to posting”:http://robert.accettura.com/archives/2004/12/15/firefox-ad-is-out-2-full-pages/ about it becuase I wasn’t at the computer to catch the post!

Check it out though, my name’s in the ad somewhere! Also…a nice surprise is that the ad is two pages in size instead of the promised/expected single page!

Update: I found my name in the PDF…it’s down to the right of the light “x” in Firefox at the bottom of the first page. About a third of the way above the center of the “x” and over a little ways to the right (not touching the “x” and separated by some names). The names are alphabetical, and my last name starts with “Sz”. So far I’m not directly giving it away on this blog though…some of my readers know me though :-) (If you do, please don’t post it in the comments…thanks.)

Tue, 2004-12-14 (Dec 14)

Firefox’s Google homepage…a ’suggest’ion?

Now that “Google Suggest Beta”:http://labs.google.com/suggest has been released, and seems to work really well…why not add it to the “Mozilla Firefox Start Page”:http://www.google.com/firefox that Google hosts? Then I wouldn’t have to choose between leaving the nice Firefox start page (my current choice) and Google Suggest set as my home page. Google can go ahead and add the Suggest technology to its main homepage, too, as far as I’m concerned!

Now if they would just listen to me…

Thu, 2004-12-09 (Dec 09)

The Site Now Exists Differently!

Filed under: Blog,General — David @ 13:26

Another name change! Based on an excellent suggestion (that he didn’t know he was suggesting for this purpose at the time) from Pastor Nathan at my church, in “this sermon”:http://resources.christianity.com/lakeview/talkInfo.jhtml?id=53614, I’ve picked a new name for my blog. Instead of the previous “Riddle Wrapped Up In an Enigma”, which although cool was also somewhat clumsy and nondescriptive, the new name is “Exist Differently”. Along with the new name comes a new domain: existdifferently.com

Finally, the guy who owns forty domain names buys a real one for his blog! :-)

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