wow factor

Just noticed that Google Adsense now sometimes serves up multiple ad’s in a single ad panel. Note the little scroll buttons.

If banner blindness is on the rise, I wonder who will be tempted to scroll through multiple ads.

Full marks to those unrelenting Google code tweakers.

Over the weekend I noticed my standard Gmail storage space climb from 2GB to 3+GB.

Further details:
More Gmail storage for all

Update: The slow and steady increase continues... current space is 3607 MB

GUILTY

The front page GUILTY headline and Image..

Robert Farquharson found guilty of murdering his three sons | Herald Sun

A FATHER has been found guilty of deliberately driving into a dam to murder his three helpless young sons.
A Supreme Court jury has just found Robert Donald William Farquharson, 38, set out to drown his children when his car plunged into freezing water and sunk near Winchelsea.
Little Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2, died on Father's Day, 2005.

NOT GUILTY

Same paper, same day, same time....

Farquharson found not guilty of murdering his three sons | Herald Sun

A FATHER has been cleared of murdering his three young sons after they tragically drowned when his car plunged into a dam.
A Supreme Court jury has just found Robert Donald William Farquharson, 38, not guilty of murder in the wake of one of Victoria's most heart-wrenching trials.

Moral to the story... don't believe everything you read. The Not Guilty story has now been removed.

Can't wait to see how they mangle reporting the pending national election.

Plus a little Google verification.

Google 2007 Australian Federal Election

I question Google Australia's lightweight participation in our once every 3 year orgy of influence, bribery and bullshit.

I would far prefer to read their positions on key Australian issues like ...

• Online Censorship
• Access to and distribution of broadband
• AWA's within the IT industry
• The ACCC case against Google
• etc etc etc.

I don't want more painful political YouTube links. I want to know the position of the Australian branch of one of the worlds biggest companies and why they have decided to get cute with the Australian political process.

PS: Happy 10th birthday Google

AIRifier
turn any URL into a desktop application in about ten lousy seconds

The above is an understatement. With a couple of clicks, I now have Google Gmail and Calendar as fully functional desktop apps .

You do have to install Adobe AIR.

Read the Basement.org write up, watch the well produced video then go to AIRifier and check out the existing ShAIRified websites or create your own.