Google Wave
I’ve read 3 or 4 Google Wave reviews but none of them really prepared me for the wonder that is the Wave. The reviews I read were pretty short and sweet, explaining that Wave is an online collaboration tool (which, in all fairness, it is) and that was pretty much it.
At this point, most of them decided to go about explaining the layout of Wave and which box does what, none of them, however, actually sold Wave.
For a few weeks I’d pondered whether to bother asking Google for a beta invite or not and many a time filled in the required form, but never got round to submitting the request, mainly because I don’t know anyone else that has Wave access and thought it was pretty useless without knowing someone to collaborate with. How wrong.
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Category: Tech | Tagged: November 24th, 2009
Who’s the criminal?
I don’t know if I’m getting old or I’m just turning really grumpy but I’m really starting to get hacked off with every day occurances in the news these days. In todays news there’s an article about some poor soul who got beaten to death on Halloween for no reason other than he was sticking up for his girlfriend who just had her costume hat taken from her and spat in.
Any decent fella, boyfriend of victim or not, would stand up for a lady and chow down some clown who thinks he’s “cool” by being a prick and ruining someone elses night, that’s, no doubt, a given. What is strange is how someone, or some people, think it is then OK to take one step further and beat a man to death for sticking up for his lady friend. Even these low-lives that clearly have less than half a brain cell can see the utter stupidity in such an act, so why do it?
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Category: Personal | Tagged: RantNovember 3rd, 2009