"To understand nothing is to understand everything."
K'ung fu-tzu of Qufu in Lu. You knew?

"To understand nothing is to understand everything."
K'ung fu-tzu of Qufu in Lu. You knew?

Other online options...

Just as a quick update to the post on Google's 11th birthday, the homepage (or at least it has where I am!) now has a link to Project 10 to the 100 (googol) which is simply a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. They've done it before with great success.
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Other options...but not many! Google is eleven years old today (11...not double l)...so young yet so mature and advanced. Hehehe. It was also the very first web page I ever visited and now, probably, apart from the BBC (yeah, yeah, the irony isn't lost) the one I use most. Click on the image to see what they have to offer: much, much more than most people think, depite everyone knowing it to be one of the World's most recognisable and powerful brands, the most visited webpage, the most used search engine and to top it all consistently in the top of the Best Places To Work surveys...

It began as a 'mere' research project by Larry Page and then Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University. The name they decided on - Google - is a play on the numeric term googol. Just imagine if their logic had gone for another similar name: other names for a googol include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale (what the UK uses now: the system whereby every new numeric term is 1,000 times the previous term) ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale (you guessed it, a million times the previous term and what the UK used to use up until 1974; it seems so long ago!) or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale (the traditional European scale with such 'stylish' terms such as milliard, billiard and trilliard) Tables HERE on Wiki scroll down half a page) None have quite the same ring to them! If you think the word googol sounds a wee bit childish it was thought up by the 9 year old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.

Other online options...

Just as a quick update to the post on Google's 11th birthday, the homepage (or at least it has where I am!) now has a link to Project 10 to the 100 (googol) which is simply a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. They've done it before with great success.
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Other options...but not many! Google is eleven years old today (11...not double l)...so young yet so mature and advanced. Hehehe. It was also the very first web page I ever visited and now, probably, apart from the BBC (yeah, yeah, the irony isn't lost) the one I use most. Click on the image to see what they have to offer: much, much more than most people think, depite everyone knowing it to be one of the World's most recognisable and powerful brands, the most visited webpage, the most used search engine and to top it all consistently in the top of the Best Places To Work surveys...

It began as a 'mere' research project by Larry Page and then Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University. The name they decided on - Google - is a play on the numeric term googol. Just imagine if their logic had gone for another similar name: other names for a googol include ten duotrigintillion on the short scale (what the UK uses now: the system whereby every new numeric term is 1,000 times the previous term) ten thousand sexdecillion on the long scale (you guessed it, a million times the previous term and what the UK used to use up until 1974; it seems so long ago!) or ten sexdecilliard on the Peletier long scale (the traditional European scale with such 'stylish' terms such as milliard, billiard and trilliard) Tables HERE on Wiki scroll down half a page) None have quite the same ring to them! If you think the word googol sounds a wee bit childish it was thought up by the 9 year old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.

Out of options...

Labour are almost out of options; they've no defence so they can only attack; there's not really that much to attack so they need to get down and dirty, and they will. They must expose the Tories says Hain [BBC]...expose what Peter, that they're so much more popular than you? Oooh those nasty Conservatives! I see you've started off by throwing in some whoppers in your Western Mail interview (no offence Burger King).

"I'm projecting that if the Tories are elected, unemployment will double in Wales, it will reach 250,000....the consequences of their cuts would be devastating, it would plunge us back into the 1980s."

I'm projecting you'll be a lying, thieving, corrupt Hoon (might have that tense wrong...) Perhaps you should stop Clarke talking about Gordon Brown's 'misleading and incredible' election claims [Guardian] and Prescott [Independent] exposing the lack of options and the lack of direction:

"They're a bloody party of whiners, when what we want is a party of campaigners."

Indeed, from winners to winers (and diners) to whiners. Still, whatever they do, they've got an uphill struggle when even 25% of Labour voters say they would prefer Cameron as PM! (OK, it's "just" another poll).

Out of options...

Labour are almost out of options; they've no defence so they can only attack; there's not really that much to attack so they need to get down and dirty, and they will. They must expose the Tories says Hain [BBC]...expose what Peter, that they're so much more popular than you? Oooh those nasty Conservatives! I see you've started off by throwing in some whoppers in your Western Mail interview (no offence Burger King).

"I'm projecting that if the Tories are elected, unemployment will double in Wales, it will reach 250,000....the consequences of their cuts would be devastating, it would plunge us back into the 1980s."

I'm projecting you'll be a lying, thieving, corrupt Hoon (might have that tense wrong...) Perhaps you should stop Clarke talking about Gordon Brown's 'misleading and incredible' election claims [Guardian] and Prescott [Independent] exposing the lack of options and the lack of direction:

"They're a bloody party of whiners, when what we want is a party of campaigners."

Indeed, from winners to winers (and diners) to whiners. Still, whatever they do, they've got an uphill struggle when even 25% of Labour voters say they would prefer Cameron as PM! (OK, it's "just" another poll).

Oblatrating online opinion oppression...

For anyone interested, and those that didn't know the BBC Radio 5 News Message Boards are closing.

We're hoping that '5 Live now' will succeed at amplifying existing online opinion wherever it might originate or be hosted but that means that the board, although active amongst a regular set of users, can't continue in its current form and will close shortly.

In doing so the hosts asked if there were any questions and comments; one regular poster, Pat Shed, had two...both of which remain unanswered.

1. Were you not tempted to consult with your customers before taking this decision?

2. How is it that you "can no longer justify the resources required to moderate and host a wide-ranging news discussion forum" when the whole rationale of Radio 5Live is predicated on rolling news (and sport), and yet you apparently can justify the resources required to moderate and host not only a forum dedicated to television generally (Points of View) but also no fewer than 8 (eight) fora dedicated to one programme, Strictly Come Dancing?

Good points indeed; that second point is telling, for those not in the know this latter show is utter tripe but manna for the brainless masses as they gawp at the magic light box that provides their cerebral succour about which the BBC seem able to provide endless opportunites for anyone to comment.

Some may say that as I slag off the BBC why should I care, or that they have to make savings...whatever. Slowly but surely they are reducing the input of hoi polloi, [nearly] all their outlets that enable uncontrolled (but supervised) thought and speech are being wound up...to be replaced by insipid, banal "equivalents" (NOT!) controlled by those who may not wish too much free speech and certainly no free speech that may not dove-tail to the BBC's rather slanted view of how the UK/World should be...maybe I'm making too much of this but anyone who has seen what has happend to the Sports board will know the "new" is most definitely not better and certainly is not progrees.

For anyone who has noticed I have had a link in the Owsblog sidebar for many years to an acceptable (hehehe) alternative. Click on the blue cat image or HERE.



oblatrate n. - to snarl at, inveigh against

Oblatrating online opinion oppression...

For anyone interested, and those that didn't know the BBC Radio 5 News Message Boards are closing.

We're hoping that '5 Live now' will succeed at amplifying existing online opinion wherever it might originate or be hosted but that means that the board, although active amongst a regular set of users, can't continue in its current form and will close shortly.

In doing so the hosts asked if there were any questions and comments; one regular poster, Pat Shed, had two...both of which remain unanswered.

1. Were you not tempted to consult with your customers before taking this decision?

2. How is it that you "can no longer justify the resources required to moderate and host a wide-ranging news discussion forum" when the whole rationale of Radio 5Live is predicated on rolling news (and sport), and yet you apparently can justify the resources required to moderate and host not only a forum dedicated to television generally (Points of View) but also no fewer than 8 (eight) fora dedicated to one programme, Strictly Come Dancing?

Good points indeed; that second point is telling, for those not in the know this latter show is utter tripe but manna for the brainless masses as they gawp at the magic light box that provides their cerebral succour about which the BBC seem to able to provide endless opportunites for anyone to comment.

Some may say that as I slag off the BBC why should I care, or that they have to make savings...whatever. Slowly but surely they are reducing the input of hoi polloi, [nearly] all their outlets that enable uncontrolled (but supervised) thought and speech are being wound up...to be replaced by insipid, banal "equivalents" (NOT!) controlled by those who may not wish too much free speech and certainly no free speech that may not dove-tail to the BBC's rather slanted view of how the UK/World should be...maybe I'm making too much of this but anyone who has seen what has happend to the Sports board will know the "new" is most definitely not better and certainly is not progrees.

For anyone who has noticed I have had a link in the Owsblog sidebar for many years to an acceptable (hehehe) alternative. Click on the blue cat image or HERE.



oblatrate n. - to snarl at, inveigh against