I was invited to create a Google Mail account several weeks ago. So I created it. I haven’t been able to login since. I tried to get my password reset by answering my “secret question” but it claims my answer is wrong! I don’t know the name of my dog??? Gmail is seriously broken, so don’t ever forget your password.
Finally got in and then this:
*Server Error*
Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
I like making predictions and then seeing how well I did later, so here’s my Google stock prediction: in 6 months, the stock is $50 or less.
There are supposedly 1,000 of you, more than 40% of the companies employees. Heady days. What I’d don’t understand though is that the company now has “a market valuation of more than $27 billion, higher than not only an Internet company like Amazon.com, but also industrial giants like Lockheed Martin and General Motors.” (The New York Times > Technology >NYTimes) GM?!?!
I ordered one “small thing”:http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10346406&loc=101&sp=1 from “buy.com”:http://buy.com last night and never heard a thing about it, no receipt, no shipment notification, nothing. I ordered three things from “NewEgg.com”:http://newegg.com this afternoon and all have already shipped.
CBS MarketWatch “alleges”:http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B00D4FA7B-543F-4BD7-B433-297E4779AF61%7D&siteid=google&dist=google that Google set the IPO price below its Dutch auction price just to give insiders an initial profit. And I love how Dave Winer, Google-lover turned Google-hater, “spent 10 grand”:http://archive.scripting.com/2004/08/19#When:4:23:33PM on Google stock today. Dave, you’re supposed to buy low and sell high.
…income is an accurate predictor of well-being when it raises someone from, say, homelessness to a janitorial job, because the jump up the economic ladder brings basic needs like food and shelter. With increasing wealth, however, extra money doesn’t buy much extra happiness, according to most of the 150 studies. Instead, happiness comes from social relationships, enjoyable work, fulfillment, a sense that life has meaning, and joining civic and other groups.
Most interestingly, the studies do confirm a correlation between being happy and going on to make money. If you are content, you are likely to get married and stay that way, to be healthy and productive, which leads to earning more. What we should really be striving for is happiness. “Fitter, happier, more productive…”
51% of Americans use broadband. This is very good news for those of us that have to design websites for a living.
The US is now “51% broadband”:http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=P5466_0_6_0_C.
Google’s IPO (“GOOG”:http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog) went live today, started at $85 and rose to $100, earning them $1.6 billion and valuing the company at $23 billion and created three new (paper) billionaires. Not bad for a company whose original plan was to sell the technology to Yahoo for $1 million. Now they just “have to earn several more billion dollars”:http://news.com.com/Finding+Google%27s+next+billion/2100-1024_3-5314025.html?part=rss&tag=5314025&subj=news.1024.5 to keep their shareholders happy.
Well, Troy would disagree with me, but as a local I know Rainier tastes better than Busch too: Black bear develops taste for local brew at near by Baker Lake. Ah, the days of drinking 36 cans of beer in one sitting…
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