As previously reported by John Battelle and Darren Rowse, Google not only announced but published their own Blog Search. The system which is of course a beta works in two different categories as you can separate between searching only Blogger.com blogs or all (rather independent) blogs.
It disturbs me greatly that they still list my old blog upon searching for my own name. And that even if it has the noindex parameters. This is absolutely idiotic, and I’d expect a lot more from Google instead of categorizing their old index. I cannot embed a robots.txt file on that server, and I’d rather prefer to keep the spiders to follow to this blog instead of disabling all of it.
After all, Duncan published a first review of the service, and my own overall experience from using Technorati and IceRocket tell me one thing: Google can’t keep up with their advantage yet. And I hope that none of these good services are going to be sold to Google. I believe that many users would jump off just for such move. ;) The index of Google Blog Search is too small, and the fact of ignoring my own personal preference of opting out with my old blog and still listing the outdated version just annoys me. Grrrrowwwgle Blog Search doesn’t make me happy at all!
Why not Blogging? There’s my reason!
WebWell in fact I played with the thought to contribute some input to the blogosphere, however I decided not to do it! Instead I’ve spent the whole day configuring my new computer. Guess that’s at last one way how to get me off the internet unless Kat’s back in her castle!And it’s really fast – no, not Katharina, but the new computer. I
purchasedfinanced it for 790 Euro at a local reseller.So far I tested GTA San Andreas, Call of Duty + United Offensive, Warcraft 3, and the classic Quake3 for the fun of it. All games perform best at their highest and extreme maximum settings. That’s quite the issue, and now I’m searching for useful new games… time to put that PC under pressure! ;)
German Blogger gets threatened by his Troll
BlogkulturOne of Germany’s bloggers, Thomas Gigold, got threatened by one of his Trolls A. S.. According to the Troll A.S.,
todayyesterday’s September 13th was Thomas‘ „entire personal fatal day“ („ganz persönlicher Unglückstagâ€). My advice to such threat is to consult either your lawyer or directly inform the police. This is clearly not legal.New PC? Time for „World of Warcraft“
LebenConsidered this… my new PC is ready for take off at the reseller’s place. I’m going to pick it up in about 1-2 hours, and then I have to do some major backup of my old PC. What does this mean as next? OF COURSE! Finally there’s the machine to get amazing games. I believe I’ll order World of Warcraft right away!
Just earlier I saw an interesting article that allows people to initiate role-playing more deeply on the servers. That’s quite a neato, and I’ll definately try that out once the game ships here… back home to my safe harbour! The only problem is that amazon will take a few weeks to deliver it in time, and what am I supposed to do else? How am I going to survive in her psychopathic world?
Google Blog Search
WebIt disturbs me greatly that they still list my old blog upon searching for my own name. And that even if it has the noindex parameters. This is absolutely idiotic, and I’d expect a lot more from Google instead of categorizing their old index. I cannot embed a robots.txt file on that server, and I’d rather prefer to keep the spiders to follow to this blog instead of disabling all of it.
After all, Duncan published a first review of the service, and my own overall experience from using Technorati and IceRocket tell me one thing: Google can’t keep up with their advantage yet. And I hope that none of these good services are going to be sold to Google. I believe that many users would jump off just for such move. ;) The index of Google Blog Search is too small, and the fact of ignoring my own personal preference of opting out with my old blog and still listing the outdated version just annoys me. Grrrrowwwgle Blog Search doesn’t make me happy at all!
The Simple Life
LebenSpending the evening all alone became a habit for me. My girlfriend Katharina left for her internship in San Francisco a few weeks ago, but fortunately, we’re going to count down the days until she returns. Only 18 days until I can hold her in my arms again, and only 18 days which mean to spend time sitting infront of the laptop in the living room and celebrating the brilliant combination of using candle lights with your digitalized hardware .
Firefox Extension Problem
WebPerhaps it depends on the version you’ve been using before, and as far as I guess, Robert was using a german-language variant of Firefox 1.0.6 – not sure how that reacts with the english version tho! However, there seems to be a workaround:
Die Bloggerwahlparty 05
Blogkultur, PolitikSo muss es sein! Wenn die Prominenz aus der Politik es uns seit Jahren vor machen kann, ist Klein-Bloggersdorf noch lange nicht auf die Nase gefallen. Daher lädt Sandra Wiegard am kommenden Sonntagabend zur Bloggerwahlparty ein! Die Bedingungen sind einfach und für jeden machbar, sofern man entweder Autor oder Leser von Blogs ist. Nebenbei sollte man auch für Speis und Trank sorgen, was bitte in der jeweiligen Parteifarbe (oder Koalitionsfarbe) mitzubringen ist. Ich würde mich wohl auch für Rotwein und einen Guacamole-Dip entscheiden.
Auch wenn keine Köpfe eingeschlagen werden, wenn jemand mal Schwarzen Peter und gelblichen Zitronensaft trinken mag, scheint’s wohl in Hamburg schon kurz vor Wahlschluss abzugehen! Viel Spaß dabei, und hätte ich Benzin im Tank, wäre ich bestimmt auch in den Süden gefahren! ;)
8.30 in the morning
Leben, Unicum AkademieWho’d believe I’m awake these days at such an early time of the day? Usually I’ve not moved myself out of bed before 9 a.m. hence the semester break. Fortunately, I have a good reason to sleep longer since Kat and myself usually talk later at night to meet the 9 hours time difference. And as far as I can tell, its worth every second! But in the last couple of days, I noticed that we are again talking with each other around either 6 a.m. or 7.45 a.m. for about 30 minutes up to an hour. Its no problem at all, except that I’m suffering from a small lack of sleep – 3 to 4 hours won’t be enough to stay healthy. I have already considered of sleeping 2 hours in advance at noon, but we’ll see how this develops in the upcoming 18 days until Katharina will return! ;) Now I am awake, I am going to get a cup of coffee…
Digg.com: This is your Death
Social MediaNearly two weeks after my resumee about Digg.com’s downfall, the service is yet again down. I guess I’m going to give up and concentrate on some of the more reliable services instead of wasting my time in awaiting the establishment of a connection to their bug server.
This is ridiculous. If that’s an excuse for maintenance, it’s surely the worst I’ve ever seen. Did the hosting provider suspend the account for the overload of worldwide diggers? Seems like it!
Update: There’s some rumor over at Bart’s Blog about a Denial of Service attack on Digg. Well if that’s the case, there must be someone out there who hates the Digg community?!
Plugin Upgrades
KuriosesI thought it’s a useful addition to the MikeSchnoor.com’s entire site to include an active list of all plugins being used here. The most recent additions are PHP Exec to execute special PHP commands, Related Posts to show any useful ressources which have been published prior to the original post, Jerome’s Keywords to tag all posts, and WPG2 to embed the Gallery2 software nicely into the blog’s layout. ;)