Posts Tagged ‘Google’
How To Stop Calendar Spam
This happened to me recently and it’s super annoying. Here’s how to fix it.
Source: Spam In your Calendar? Here’s What to Do. — Krebs on Security
Kids Asks Google For Job, CEO Responds – Cute News
So much of the news is WTF these days, so here’s some cute news.
English: Google Logo officially released on May 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A 7-year-old kid decided she wanted to work at Google. Her dad said, “write them a letter.” She did. The CEO responded. It’s cute stuff. Hit up the link below.
Chloe Bridgewater was inspired by seeing the bean bag chairs and slides in the office.
Source: A 7-year-old wrote a letter to Google asking for a job—here’s how the CEO responded
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Google Exec Wants People To Watch Their Kids Graduate On Their Phones
Buried within a New York Times article about cloud storage for businesses is this rather odd quote from Amit Singh, the president of Google Enterprise.
Android logo via Wikipedia
“You’ll be videoconferencing with someone, while editing a supply chain document with someone else in Hong Kong, while he watches his son graduate on his phone,” Mr. Singh said, noting, “you’ll need a lot of infrastructure to do that.”
(emphasis added)
No disrespect meant to Mr. Singh, but, um, what the hell? Is he actually comparing “editing a supply chain document” with a child’s graduation?
What Mr. Singh was attempting to explain, as far as I can tell, is how a businessperson (I’m going gender neutral here; apologies to Caesar and any other intelligent non-human creatures of the future) could make use of the Android operating system on multiple devices at once. But if his idea of quality parenting is not only working while your kid graduates but squeezing it in as if it were just another activity in the stream of a business day, I have to disagree. Strongly.
Google, Microsoft and Others Delve Deeper Into Cloud Storage for Businesses – NYTimes.com.
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Doodle 4 Google 2014 Winner is 11-Year-Old Audrey Zhang
Doodle 4 Google 2014 Winner is 11-year-old Audrey Zhang from New York. Check out her winning Doodle, and read about how she spent the day at the Googleplex (I guess that’s Google’s HQ) helping to animate her winning entry. Yay kids!
Another view of the south side of the Googleplex from Charleston Road. Photographed by user Coolcaesar on September 17, 2006. category:Google (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Doodle 4 Google 2014 – US Winner.
How To Find The Clean Version On Spotify
I’m trying out Spotify Premium on my Sonos and so far I love it. I want my kids to have good taste in music, or at least be able to introduce them to bands that they wouldn’t otherwise experience. Regular radio — top 40 — stinks, with very few choices and far too many songs by Ke$ha. I don’t want to force my taste onto my kids, but I do want to share my musical interests with them. Spotify Premium is a good way to do this without buying every album or downloading stuff illegally. Of course, not everything I listen to is free of dirty words. I’m no prude, but sometimes I’d prefer to have the kids listen to the non-explicit version of an album. So how to find the clean version on Spotify? Read more »
Tweets Tweets and More Tweets (Tweets)
Tweets. Tweets. Twitter! It’s all about The Twitter. Except when it’s all about The Facebook. Or The Google. Those are The Big Three, I think. Oh! The YouTube. So much for (un)holy trinities.
Emergency “Twitter was down so I wrote my tweet on paper and photographed it and posted on flickr” : Satire on internet culture (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anyway, here are some tweets we stumbled across that we decided to share with you.
How this works, parents using Bing to get a free tablet for their child’s classroom, I have no idea. But Microsoft has done stranger things so we figured it was worth sharing.
60 parents using @bing for a month can earn a school a tablet. #bingclassroom #mom2summit
— Jana Anthoine (@jana0926) May 2, 2014
Nathan Rabin is a funny guy. Also a very good writer. Pick up his books, any of them. They’re good.
Most of the traffic for my THE FOUR SEASONS Forgotbuster comes from Google searches for "middle-aged, sexually exciting stir-fry."
— Nathan Rabin (@nathanrabin) May 2, 2014
Apparently I follow Jimmy Fallon on Twitter. (I badly need to look at my Twitter account. By the way, are you following me @brettsinger? You should. I’m very interesting.) Anyway, here Mr. Fallon tweets a rather kindly worded review of Seth Rogen’s latest film, Neighbors. The tone matches Fallon’s general image, which is that he seems like a nice guy.
Congrats @Sethrogen. I just watched Neighbors – hilarious and also sweet – best movie I've seen in a while. Well done all around.
— jimmy fallon (@jimmyfallon) May 2, 2014
And here’s a photo of Jimmy Fallon, because why not.
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Get Going on Google Doodle Contest
Got a budding artiste at home? Time to get moving on the Google Doodle contest. The prize is seeing the art on Google.com (an audience of, oh, a gazillion people) plus $30,000 for college. Contest open to grades K-12, deadline is Thursday, March 20. Click the link below for details.
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