Is this for me?

"I'm a baaaaaad boyyyyyyy"

4 exhausts? - I ask ya!

Loved the gritty surroundings of the underground carpark for this new Porsche. Like most classic cars - not as good as the older models.


Hands up who wants to get hooked up to iGoogle:

Ok - so "universal search" - we're getting there and it ain't no big deal. Words, documents, images and recent music are all there. The tv shows, broadcasts and films will get there.

But at the end of the "universal search" they talk about Radio frequency ID (used on some vans that I know of now). I reckon this'll tie in more with the second part of Google's "techno-dream", the "personalised search", where they know your web-surfing and search habits. It reminded me of something I read a coupla years ago about advertising to consumers in the year 2020.

So, I'm thinking, in the future I'm stood at a bus-stop with 10 other folks. 8 have RFID tags on their mobile phones. There is a digital screen at the bus stop with kit that reads the RFID tags and satellite positioning chips on our google-laden mobile phones and..... click, up pops the advert from the product (and company that can afford to pay) that is best tailored to the majority of those 8 folks. Say there's 5 there with sports stuff - badminton raquet, sports bags etc. - a Lucozade advert might pop up. I dunno. But what if there's me, one other dude and a chick or an old lady. The advert flicks up a Playboy channel advert. It's gonna be so embarassing for the dude and the old lady that I know what their search n' surf habits are all about! The depraved perverts!

They say "Our goal is that you can, if you want, search for anything, anywhere, any time"........aye.....and we can find you anywhwere, anytime and advertise you that anything.


If the third and final piece of their future, the "cloud computing", takes off then what next for the irritating Microsoft Office? All yer shit online. On Google Apps. Nae stuttering hard-drives and external hard-drives. Just a server (called God?) living in the heartland of America serving us all (mwahahaha). They could create a new State; just take half of Nevada and half of Utah and call it Server.

"Google's overall goal is to have a record of every e-mail we have ever written, every contact whose details we have recorded, every file we have created, every picture we have taken and saved, every appointment we have made, every website we have visited, every search query we have typed into its home page, every ad we have clicked on, and everything we have bought online. It wants to know and record where we have been and, thanks to our search history of airlines, car-hire firms and MapQuest, where we are going in the future and when.
This would not just make Google the largest, most powerful super-computer ever; it would make it the most powerful institution in history."

Tell you what though - if you trust 'em not to go all 1984 on yer ass then it ain't a bad idea.