One step closer

Looks like the big G is one step closer to releasing my GooBox

--JOsh

Dickey's Update

Since my last post, I've been to Dickey's 2 more times. Once for lunch, and another time for dinner. I was finally able to try the pulled pork. Tasty, but still not quite a good as Dave's. I guess I'm just picky when it comes to pulled pork, I like it to have a nice smokey flavor, without the bbq sauce. If the sauce has some smokeyness to it, that's fine, but I like the meat to be able to stand on it's own. Their dinner rolls are much better than their cornbread. I think I'll just stick to the rolls from now on. Still digging their fried okra. Guess that's just one of those things that I picked up from living in the South. Their green beans are very delicious. Not such a fan of the potato salad, it's not horrible, but it's certainly not Jason's grandmas deliciousness. The jalapeño beans were good, nice kick to them. Even better with a splash of bbq sauce & some onions thrown in.

So, all in all, I'm happy with Dickey's. It's certainly nice to have a BBQ place so close to home.

--JOsh

Premonitions

A few weeks back I commented on Samantha's blog about Google becoming a place to save data you want to find again, things like web pages you've visited. Imagine my surprise when I see this show up in my Google Reader feed for Google's blog: Google Launches Web History. Guess that was just my little bit of premonition.

Wouldn't be the first time either.

Back in April of 2006 I posted about Google's Calendar Release and how they weren't too far away from replacing Microsoft Outlook in many places with their combination of mail & calendaring. I envisioned an appliance one could put on their network that would run a local version of Gmail & Google Calendar so that companies could keep their own data. Well, they haven't done that, but with the release of the Google Apps Premier edition, apart from being master of your own data, they've got the calendar/mail goodness I spoke of, with the added bonus of Google Docs & Google Spreadsheets. I don't see lots of large businesses jumping on this, but after looking at Google's FAQ entry on Security, Privacy & Compliance, it looks like this would be a very viable option for quite a few small businesses, giving them the ability to ditch Microsoft Office/Exchange and save money at the same time.

--JOsh

An old post revisited

The mini-mac-stacka-attacka, you're due for an update. Thanks to the Bluedot BDM-100S DVD/CD storage and retrieval silo, you're a little more sleek and modern looking, plus you've got that wonderful blue light that everyone's using now.



--Josh