Today on Google.
It doesn’t work in Firefox 12.0, not what I’d call antiquated.
Next? I reckon that at some big US holiday you will have to sign in to Google to see these doodles in action.
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No Support at Google
9 days left.
Nothing will change in 10 days I’m sure. They have no Support.
Two wrong answers
I’m not registering at a forum just to search.
I think my answer was right. I don’t know if it wanted ‘green’ as it did not repeat.
I answered ‘Venezuala’ which is correct but also wrong here. I have no idea which one it meant.
There was another about ‘Where does milk come from’. I gave up there.
Amusing image of the day
Enlarging Amazon
Paging on amazon.com
Much better paging on amazon.co.uk
Name nicker
I want another ID on reddit. Thought of a name and went to the user page. 1 link karma but nothing else. Name has been there for a few years. What a waste of a name. Tried to login as them but they had no email associated with the account. So I tried password as the password. Well actually I tried 12345 first and that failed. But password worked. So now I have an old account – an old unused account – with a new password (I’m not that daft) and I verified the email. I’ve nicked an ID. I can’t decide how I feel about that.
A story.
My news
This is why I clear all cookies every time I close Firefox. It is why I never login to Google or other news services to read what is happening. I don’t want ‘News for Me’, just the news.
The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder – The Atlantic.
I’m sure my ISP can track me if they want but they too need to get past https searches (DuckDuckGo!) and vpns. I’m doing nothing bad, nothing wrong. I just do not want what I am shown today to be decided by what I read yesterday or before that. My mind is quite capable of limiting itself at times and I don’t need any help with that.
Amazon and Pizza
Wouldn’t surprise me to see this Amazon quote written more widely:
Experiments are hatched and managed by the smallest teams possible; if it takes more than two pizzas to feed a work group, Bezos once observed, then the team is too big. Forbes
The words ‘teams’ ‘work group’ and ‘team’ are each used once. But the two pizzas applies to the ‘work group’.
The word ‘feed’ is ambiguous. Does he mean it is enough to sustain them? Does he maybe mean “Here is one thin sliver, count yourself fed”.
Is this about money? If it is then there will be a budget. Let’s say it’s $15. That’s $7.50 for each pizza. But what if they order one big $15 dish? or 3 at $5? It isn’t 2 pizzas any more, it’s all about the cash.
Is it about too many people, too much chat and not enough progress? If so then the number of pizzas is immaterial because the definition has already been made. The number of people will be forced to fit the pizza before they have had the pizza.
There will be managers who read that article and look to take information into their own business. Feeding staff could be one factor and it would be unfair of that quote in this article to lead to some starving their hard working staff. Mr Bezos did not create Amazon without some incredible attention to detail which will continue to this day. So why doesn’t some journalist ask him to explain exactly what he meant? Who knows – maybe he never said it.