This is just sad.
July 30th, 2008 • politics • No comments
McBush’s team has put together the saddest ad I’ve ever seen in a political race. Seriously, resorting to comparing Obama to these ‘celebrities’? Wow…. you can even smell the desperation!
New McCain ad portrays Obama as celeb not leader
Yes We Can!
Cuil
July 28th, 2008 • tech • No comments
Yep, another “I’m going to be better than Google” site has popped up. According to a Wired.com article ‘Cuil’ “Anna Patterson’s last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it’s not for sale.
Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet.
The end result is Cuil, pronounced “cool.” Backed by $33 million in venture capital, the search engine plans to begin processing requests for the first time Monday.
Cuil had kept a low profile while Patterson, her husband, Tom Costello, and two other former Google engineers - Russell Power and Louis Monier - searched for better ways to search.
Now, it’s boasting time.
For starters, Cuil’s search index spans 120 billion Web pages.”
… well then. Now, according to the article, today is the first day of availability, but, let’s give it a test. I put my last name in, and I even have a domain registered for it. That didn’t even come up. My twitter account shows, followed by an obituary for a couple dead relatives, and a few other things. Then there are two sites that come up that appear to be completely unrelated. (the reason I know they’re unrelated is this - per all my research, and knowing my family history, we are the only family to have this last name - anywhere.)
The site is nifty looking, polished, but, also slow and appears to be inaccurate. Granted, this is a new engine, and those do take time to ‘learn’, but I have to agree with a quote in the article for now: “I doubt (Cuil) will be keeping anyone at Google awake at night.”
Dawn’s question to Sam Raimi
July 27th, 2008 • movie, video • No comments
How cool is this - Dawn’s question to Sam Raimi is included in MahaloDaily.com’s YouTube channel video!
Comic Con
July 25th, 2008 • Life • No comments
Dawn’s been at Comic Con for today and yesterday. Thursday she had one of the worst experiences at Con she’s ever had. First, took her 3+ hours to get there due to an accident on the 5. Then, once she got there, she was barely able to see anything she wanted due to the hellish crowds. (yes, we’ve been there before - for years actually - this year just sounds worse than ever).
Then, she called me and said she lost the camera. Needless to say she was distraught. She checked lost and found, but no one had turned it in. I was more concerned about her being upset than a missing camera. Sure, it wan’t good that the camera was gone, but things could be worse right? Luckily I was already at Best Buy when she called, so I just bought her a new one. We got a very similar model for a good price - it was on sale so we’ll just say the timing wasn’t terrible.
Later, she called and just said the day sucked, she didn’t feel well, and she was just coming home. Poor thing. She was so looking forward to it, and Thursday just crapped out.
Today was much better. She got to meet Simon Pegg. Also got him to autograph a few things (including his own head on a stick - we’ll have to post pictures later). She also called me and said some guy asked her if she was with anyone, to which she replied she was married and showed the ring. –my wife is getting hit on at Comic Con, not sure if she’s allowed to go on her own next year! 
Me and the little man are meeting her down there tomorrow. I’ve been watching all the twitters come through about the con for 2 days <check here> and I’m getting excited. Hopefully our day turns out good. (watching the twit updates come through also has me wishing I already had my iPhone too, oh well, soon right?)
Wish me luck tomorrow.
Stop signs
July 24th, 2008 • Life • No comments
May 2007, originally uploaded by Sarah S.R..
reading through the Flickr blog found a great little collection of Stop sign modifications.
