I just want to let you know that you don’t have to trust the government. My browser told me I shouldn’t trust the IRS. They’re hosting their secure site on Akamai, but their SSL certificates are not properly setup so the browser (Firefox) told me to leave the IRS website because it wasn’t necessarily trustworthy.
I don’t trust the IRS anyway 😉
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I am flabbergasted that Google has its knickers in a twist over the Bing ‘copying’ strategy. The truth is that Google spiders MSDN, Microsoft’s internal nerdvana site, and provides excellent results. To the point that I go to Google to search Microsoft. Just because Microsoft goes to Google to search Microsoft doesn’t mean they’re copying results, they’re just doing the equivalent to doping before a major competition.
Some folks have suggested that Google is upset because Microsoft copied their results because the algorithm Google has is better. This could not be further from the truth. Google’s algorithm is simply a bunch of code running on super-cheap hardware. Microsoft’s code is simply a bunch of code running on Windows hardware and software churning out the best results Microsoft knows how to dish out: results from Google. That’s just smart business. Bing!
Oh, and Hybbprqag is one of the words Google says Microsoft copied results for.
Oh, and Oh, I should point out that I use Bing because I prefer their user agreement and privacy policy ever so slightly more than Google’s.
This weekend I spent about 8 hours working on adding insulation to the garage roof (inside not outside).
I got the insulation because it was part of a rebate package.
I got the rebated insulation to complement the insulation I had gotten for the walls.
I got the insulation for the walls because I was going to drywall the garage.
I was going to drywall the garage because I got some new shelves and cabinets.
I got the shelves and cabinets because a guy I know kindly had some extras that were going to be thrown away at a job site.
No complaints, but these could be some of the most expensive free cabinets ever.
WordPress is telling me this is my 2000th post. Not a lot of content here, but just for grins:
1) The surprise non-geek post: Ligers
2) I’ve been blogging (mostly at this site, but when I started on a site that no longer exists) for over 10 years
3) Doing the math on that, I’m not a very consistent blogger
4) Before switching to WordPress I wrote my own blogging platform
5) Most people really want pictures of my daughters on this site, but I’m a bit short on photographs
6) After all this time I think my Sister-in-Law, Shari, still thinks I’m a dork
7) I have probably gotten the most comments on this blog from my mom, who used to regularly correct my spelling and grammar
8) This list isn’t very interesting
9) The blog I used to link to, but that is defunct, but that I miss the most is “Apropos of Nothing”
10) Before Facebook and Twitter I used to spend a LOT more time on this site