Log> Random linker of the day

It's usually nice to find links pointing at you. Just found the Greenideas Blog and had a quick browse through. We're in the same area, too, so I was quite impressed by the celebrity spotting documented in one post. I want to go to Comet with Madonna, too.

Log> The Darfur Wall

A nice idea for harvesting donations towards efforts in Darfur - the Darfur Wall. You donate a dollar to light up one of the 400,000 numbers on the wall that represents a single victim of the Darfur genocide. The contributions go straight to one of these charitable organizations.

Sights> Massive pillow fight in central London

This was my first flash mob and it was a blast! An estimated 200 people gathered at the crossroads of Leadenhall and St. Mary yesterday at 6:12 PM in City of London. I didn't have a pillow with me but managed to borrow one that both me and Jon used gleefully to bash our fellow flash mobbers. Below is a video - here's the direct link to Google Video in case this is too small...

Tech> Stupidity> Copy-Yahoo-Paste-Google

Google promotes IE7. I'm quite ashamed that Google would do this. I don't even care about the competitive position - I only care about the fact that Google is promoting a program in a sub-standard line of programs, and one that is only available on the most miserable platform of all: Windows.

I don't know* what went wrong, but sure enough, looks like Google hosted and promoted a page with code copied from Yahoo!, and an image with the Y! logo just blurred off - not even substituted by a Google logo, but just blurred away. Miserable.

*as always if posting something about Google. See footer.

Words> Coverage in Tietoviikko

Tietoviikko wrote a story about me working for Google sometime ago (in Finnish). I only saw it now. Seems to be mostly accurate too. The photo is from the Divia keynote speech. Damn if my hair isn't short, only noticed that now, too.