Life is like photography
we use the negatives to develop
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So, Google wants to be open and is going to drop support for H.264 video from Chrome in favor of WebM somewhere in the not too distant future. That’s interesting, I’m waiting for their announcement to drop support for Flash, too. Seriously, who made this decision? What in the world were they thinking? H.264 may … Read more
Funny, but not sure if it’s an April Fools joke. Just looking at some Street View imagery, when I noticed a little orange guy with 3D glasses right underneath the controls, as can be seen to the right. Turns out that when you click it, it will show you the imagery in — yeah, you … Read more
This morning, I saw a Google Street View car driving around in my home town Oosterhout (map). I it was a black Ford Focus (if I’m not mistaking), and it had a German license plate from Hamburg (HH). Unfortunately, I was unable to take a photo of it. However, I might encounter it some more … Read more
Well, in the Netherlands, that is. This is what happened. Klup.nl is a Dutch web site for people looking for a house. It apparently once posted some text about a car dealer named Zwartepoorte, and somewhere on the same page, another text about the bankruptcy of a totally different company. The two texts had nothing … Read more
Today, in San Francisco an event called “Lights Out San Francisco” takes place. Basically, everyone there is asked to turn off al their lights except for one compact fluorescent lamp between 20:00 and 21:00 hours tonight, to raise awareness of the need to reduce energy consumption. Google supports this initiative by serving a black home … Read more
A few days ago, I noticed that Google’s front page has had a facelift. Upon futher examining this, it seems than only google.com has been updated. Localized Google front pages (like google.nl or google.be) seem to still use the old layout. For those using a localized version of Google, this is what google.com looks like … Read more