a day without sunshine
And surprise, surprise, I’m not talking about the weather. Yet.
Alt Search Engines wants everyone to stop using “the five major search engines”, just for tomorrow. Actually, I intend to follow that - I think my Google usage is fairly low and I’m looking forward to giving Clusty and a few other contenders a go.
This will also help me determine my stage of Google addiction. Place it accurately on a scale of coffee, watching pointless television, heroin, Warcraft 3 and mindless coding procrastination. I’ll be able to find out tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to a day of cold turkey though.
Vaguely Goog related, an interview with their search quality team.
Oh and I’m now wondering if the hype about that boy Hamilton is justified. Just a thought. Oh and mad mad props to CY for calling the result [ok, not too hard, but still a 50-50 chance] and predicting the number of sets to take the win in the French Open men’s singles. woo. I thought Feds would take Nads to 5 sets meself. And err. this is article gives the Nads butt grabbing wedgie theory a bum’s rush.
On 13-Jun-07 at 9:32 am,
Curious Yellow wrote:
Why thank you!
50-50 chance, but it’s not what you call, but how you call it. Nadal in four, though I thought Federer would take the 1st set comfortably like he did last year and then crumble. He held up a bit more this year and his backhand didn’t look as vulnerable, but what’s scary is how much Nadal’s shotmaking has improved. Federer has gotten better since last year, but not as much as Nadal has. Add his serve and his improved groundstrokes and Wimbledon may not be as out of reach for him as people think!
F1 however is still supremely boring.
On 13-Jun-07 at 11:08 am,
drac wrote:
actually, that’s my tortured sentence syntax kicking in.
Rephrased, the 50-50 chance of predicting the winner wasn’t too hard. Nadal looked good throughout the tournament and I suppose I suspected he’d win it too.
Picking the number of sets for the win was, on the other hand, an excellent feat
Kept wondering why he didn’t use the sliced backhand (the commentators picked up on it, to be fair). Every time he tried it, Nadal had to resort to sidespin or just popping the ball up and Feds got the point. All too often though, Feds was just tossing the ball over and telling Nads to whack it back with topspin.
Wimbledon actually might work for Nads if the grass is slower this year. You’d think. In ol Fed’s defence though, he’s been going through a mini coaching crisis and he looked horribly off (45+ unforced errors?!) in the final.
Dude. Eff one is better this year than it has been in many a year. Schumi is out, Alonso is throwing a hissy fit at the “English” conspiracy at MacLaren, Ferrari are out on their ass for once, Massa is doing better than Kimi. There’s a lot more drama. I’m still wondering if the boy Hamilton is being built up for a fall.
On 14-Jun-07 at 2:19 pm,
Curious Yellow wrote:
Let me rephrase that.
Watching F1 is boring. Watching Rossi is awesome.
Conspiracy be damned, we’ll all be cycling in 50 years anyway!
Gots ma Wimbledon tickets, hopefully I’ll finally get to see one of the top 2!
Picking the number of sets is not difficult, there’s a 1/3 chance of getting it right, but which sets and the margin is where it’s at dawg. But thanks anyway!
On 15-Jun-07 at 1:21 pm,
The Lair / still no sunshine wrote:
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