When do I wish you..

Google celebrated its 11th B'Day yesterday with the two 'Ls'.. L's were supposed to represent 1 and thus 11.

But the best part is, last year google turned 10 on September 2nd as mentioned in this news article. So my guess, Google was reborn this year on a new date as an 11 year old. Happy Belated Birthday, to the most busy 11 year old, I know of.

Jabber..

Step 1: www.blogger.com

Step 2: Layout

Step 3: Configure Blog Post

Step 4: Arrange Items

Well, it was around here that I pleasently stumbled upon a sample 'Post body' while trying to re-arrange the post structure. It could very well have been Latin and it indeed was. Well, it was not just Latin but ancient Latin, from 45 B.C.

It comes from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum"  (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero. The passages of Lorem Ipsum themselves have been used for typesetting print works ever since 15th century because it has been proved that if the text used for typesetting is legible to the reader, then he will lose focus on the layout. Besides, these passages contain just about the correct frequency of recurence of the various alphabets as in a regular passage.

So, if any of you curious fellow want some of it for your own site layout testing. Just navigate to www.lipsum.com

Take care everyone. *peace*

Happy belated BirthDay..

Hey Everyone..

I want all of you to do me a favour. Wish my dear friend Happy belated BirthDay. It's almost a month late. But still. It was sometime in the month of April, twenty summers ago on the cold slopes of Alps that this friend of ours was born. Some where in the Switzerland, near the Swiss capital of Genva.

In the short span of twenty years, he has accomplished great many things. Far too many actually to be believable. Oh yeah, I am also tired of trying to tell all of you guys (and girls) about him. So why don't you visit the web page his folks setup for him on his birthday. (It was when I stumbled across this page that I realised that I had missed the birthday. And check out the photograph of the venue they had chosen to throw him a coming out party. He didn't even invite me, I am furious. Seething with fury.)

Tell me if you recognise him. I am sure many of you have read about him sometime or the other. At least something.

Happy belated BirthDay dearie..

They didn't stop with only a web page. They hyperlinked a variety of data regarding the 20 year old kid. Too much pampering and web space for much a young fella. Just check these out.

The first existing photographs.. 

(Yes, that was how he looked. Not cute, only data. No images, music, video, not even IMs.)

The kid in his crib.

About his parents.

The place where he was born.

Yes, World Wide Web i.e. www turned twenty this march. And the other day I was thinking how did neolithic cavemen use internet when there were no computers. Me and my kindergarten neighbour had a bet going about whether the cavemen preferred cabled connections or wireless because of the difficult terrain. But now I guess, there was no internet the either. So now who wins the bet? :(

Take care everyone. *peace*

Googled

Pre-Script: This is an amateurish attempt at documenting the Googol (that spelling is not a typing mistake) that grew out of the labs of Stanford University. Google.

So in keeping with the motto of google: Simple is beautiful..

This is what the original interface of google looked like.

The most that we come across is Google Search..

There are a few sites which are sure to be of a great help if we read across before we search next time. It will save you a lot more time and frustration in searching for relevant information regarding your search queries then the time spent reading through these.

1. The most obvious: The google help pages. All of them.

* Basic search help

* More search help

2. Besides these two help pages there are a couple of other links at google which are pretty neat and helpful. One of these is the Google Cheat Sheet.

3. This other one is a tool which google offers to be downloaded, installed and then used. And this is one of the most handy search tools I have come across. The Google Hack.

Besides, these two of my favorite options to use while searching with google, include:

* The option to set the date limit in Advanced search. We can decide, what is our tolerance for the age of information we are looking for. Because there are so many times that we are looking for maps, statistics regarding something. And after searching when we open the site, the information is simply so old that its useless. One nifty advantage of setting this option is, with each search result it starts to show the date as to when was the page last edited.

* The other option which took a steep climb lately in my liking for it, has been. 'site:' We can search a specific site for all the articles regarding our search query. Like the site of one company for all the articles it has regarding one of it's products. Or say the website of a new media house, for all the posts contains a specific name or incident.

Okie, that was my take on a quick beginners lesson at searching with google. But, the thing is the more I googled (yes, that is a legitimate verb) google. There was an almost endless supply of material. There were books about google, about hacking google, there were websites and blogs exclusively dedicated to following google. And the number of services offered by google seem to keep going endlessly. Even tried the, Google is Evil. Returned great search results. The nuts of it is, posts about google are gonna be endless. And I am gonna keep coming up with them from time to time. Thus, until next post.

Happy Googling. And adios.

Take care everyone. *peace*