Bryan Strawser

I love Google.  This would be seriously cool.  Thanks to Dane Carlson for the link to this PC World interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Interesting read. I think Google is coming to the desktop. When I first read that interview a few days ago I thought Schmidt as much as said so. But on a re-read I realize he didn’t. I still see Google-On-The-Desktop coming soon. An easy to install HTTP server that communicates with the mother ship via XML and can search the local area network as effectively as the whole Internet. $40 per year. They’ll make a boatload of money. IPO.   [Scripting News]

The author of this is a fucking idiot.  The state we’re in. Last night, George Bush gave the annual State of the Union address. I did not watch it, because it was broadcast here where I live at 3 am, but I have read the transcript. Some highlights… [kuro5hin.org]

Um, wow.  The new chopper arrives in March! Until we get the Amsterdam Heliport up and running she’ll be positioned at Schiphol airport. We’re all pretty jazzed! This picture is of the demonstrator model on the helipad at the castle. [Adam Curry: CurryDotCom]

I just installed this, it rocks!  Wired News: Trillian Won’t Heed AOL’s Message. But after two years of this kind of conflict, the tumult over Trillian indicates something pretty simple: Although instant messaging is more popular than ever, an all-in-one system is something that many users desire — even if that system is, as AOL claims, jerry-built. [Tomalak’s Realm]

Because he’s a violent jackass idiot.  Let Tyson fight. Since when did boxing’s czars get in the business of legislating morality? [Salon.com]

I love Startrek.  I like gall too.  A couple of days ago I dug up a story about Worf and Riker. It seems there was a Klingon rule that the second officer had a responsibility to assassinate the commander if he or she became weak. Worf liked that rule. Another Worf story. Talking about someone else, he said “So and so has gall.” Pause. He continues.”I like gall.”  [Scripting News]

And I thought we were rid of this fucking idiot.  Clinton: Find ‘Common Humanity’. America better help economically depressed countries, or it faces a never-ending war on terrorism, says former President Clinton. But Bubba wasn’t all doom and gloom during a speech at UC-Berkeley. He’s happy Dubya is the center of political controversy. Brad King reports from Berkeley, California. [Wired News]