Maybe I Should Be an NFL GM

Here's the way I see it (and if you've heard this before, oh well). Randy Moss and Chad Johnson can run down the field at full speed, catch a ball in double coverage and continue at blazing fast speed another 50 yards to the endzone. This is not a suprise.

However, the next time you see this observe the (sometimes) overweight line judge that is standing at the endzone to put his hands up and signal TOUCHDOWN.

The dude is never out of breath and manages to keep up with fastest guys in the league.

If I were GM I would hire a few of them for the ole' team...don't know about their hands though.

The Morning After...A Push

Ahh the morning after a new release...there's nothing like it!!! What happen last night? Did it go off without a hitch? What will our clients think about all the hard work and late hours we put in? How many bugs will be reported? How many people will email us and say, 'Why do you guys keep changing things?' How many people will call us and say, 'WOW!!! This is great!!! BUT now can you add this?!?'

It's funny, I find myself doing the same thing though. When a wonderful new piece of technology is released (e.g. Google Earth) and we play around with it but say, 'Man, that is awesome!!! Too bad you can't do ______!!!'

Just enjoy it. Look at all the wonderful new features (and the occasional bug that slipped past QA).

If I were one of our customers, I would think one of the coolest things about our product is that any and all updates are:

1. Free
2. Automatically updated when you login to the system

In fact, I don't know of any other place (other then TiVo) where you get free and or automatic updates...

Let's see...I'll have to go buy the new version of Quicken to get all of those updates. I'll have to go purchase Microsoft Longhorn (or whatever the next version's name is) I'll have to go buy a new car if I want updates...

Huh, interesting business model. Wonder if the individuals that use our product have ever thought about that...sounds like a great selling point.

Hillary in 08?

Want Hillary Clinton to be president in 2008? Looks like ABC is paving the way for her. First, you have to get the American mindset to begin processing what this would look like. Enter Commander in Chief the new series from America's Broadcasting Company. In fact please click the link...they have really done this up! It looks like an online newpaper with what is really going on (polls and all).

The first post is this:

'For the first time in our nation's history, a woman leads us. How will President Mackenzie Allen face challenges, both personal and political, unknown to any previous Commander in Chief? The answers, opinions, and even more questions are here, in the words of the people.'

Check out this piece from the Village Voice [link]

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For something a little less disturbing and pretty cool click here.

Lovely Rita, Meter Maid

In the wake of Katrina comes lovely Rita (think Beatles). Check out these amazing satelite pictures from the NOAA website (thanks Jeremy). [link] You can also find all kinds of other great overhead pictures there too. Speaking of, have you seen Google Maps view of New Orleans post Katrina?

I find it hard to belive that the forecasters in the area think this will still be a Catagory 1 when it makes its way to DFW. They can't even tell me when it's going to rain...

Should be fun at Fellowship Uptown this Sunday...

Google Sidebar

The latest and greatest from Google (I feel like a Google Apologist now) is the latest version of desktop search. You may put an autohide side bar that contains a pluthera of information right at the movement of a mouse.

Want to see all of your new emails? They're all in your new sidebar.

Want to follow your mutual funds or stocks? Just put them in your sidebar.

Want to see a slideshow of your new precious little baby girl? Just put the file path to a picture folder in your sidebar.

Want to read blogs but don't like going to Bloglines every 30 minutes to see if anyone has something new? Put the URL feed in your sidebar and see the latest posts from all of your favorites.

Want the weather forecast for where you live and/or work? Put it/them in the sidebar.

Like to use notepad to take quick notes if someone calls? Write them in the sidebar.

Oh yeah...want to search your entire harddrive and hate using the search under 'Start'? Use the desktop search that the whole thing was originally created for.

When's that Google OS coming out???

Thought / Quote of the Day

Heard this on commercial and made me laugh:

'Don't women know if they would go to the restroom by themselves instead of with a friend, the lines would be half as long?!?'

Quote of the day:

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
- Edith Sitwell

Think about that Mayor Ray...

Blog Search Feed

To all of those super geeks that want to search all blogs for a specific item (i.e. "Fellowship Technologies") and be alerted anytime a new post includes this, you are going to love search.blogger.com. Search for anything "Texas Longhorns" (using quotes pulls results where the two words are together) "Dallas Cowboys" whatever and then go to the bottom to subscribe to this search!

Amazing

If you're a news/opionion junkie like I am, you will think this is the best thing ever...

J Froggy-Frog

J.R., This one's for you.

So if you look like two posts below, you will see a post about 'G' (I must now refer to G00g!e as G because of BLAMMING).

This new personalized search page is amazing! Have a favorite blog or two? Go ahead and copy the Feedburner link and paste it in the RSS feed section and voila, instant 'bloglines'.

You may also personalize news stories from 'G' news. I have "Texas Longhorns" football as one of mine.

On a side note, my wife started her very own blog last night: myabbie.blogspot.com

Blam - Blog Spam

Don't blog about the 'G' word or your comments will get spammed with junk...nice!!! Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us!!!

IDIOT!!! You know I'm training to become a cage fighter!!!

You have been warned...

myGoogle?

Quote of the day from my personalized Google page (your very own portal...):

'My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.'
-P.J. Plauger