Although SysAdmin Day isn't until July 30th, OpenDNS is getting a head start on appreciating the hard working System Administrators with their SysAdmin of the Year Awards which have a nomination deadline of June 29th. OpenDNS is awarding SysAdmins in six different categories. Winners will receive $50 and recognition with a grand prize (TBD) going to the best of the winners. … [Read more...]
Google Announces a New Indexing System It Calls Caffeine
Google announced on its main blog and the Google Webmaster Central blog that it has created and implemented a new search index it likes to call Caffeine. The new index moves away from a layered approach to a faster refreshing index that can add new or newly discovered items into search results faster. So why did we build a new search indexing system? Content on the web is … [Read more...]
Google Gets Into the Spirit of the World Cup
With the World Cup kicking off in 3 days, Google is having a little fun of their own. You can find it for your self if you do a Google search for 'World Cup' and scroll down to the bottom. Click this image for an enlarged screenshot of the easter egg. I'm enjoying all the little easter eggs Google has been planting lately like the Pac-Man Google logo. They're simple but … [Read more...]
Quit Facebook Day!
The end of this month, May 31st, is Quit Facebook Day. Over 23,000 people have already committed to quitting at the site www.QuitFacebookDay.com. A lot of the Anti-Facebook sentiments have become popular lately because of recent changes Facebook made to privacy settings. With the backlash growing, Facebook has recently been back-peddling trying to find the right thing that … [Read more...]
Greener Electronics
Greenpeace today published their 15th version of their Guide to Greener Electronics. In it, they give companies like Nokia, Apple, HP, Sony, and others a score out of 10 on how the company is doing in important green efforts in the categories of chemicals, e-waste, and energy. The organization has been publishing these guides regularly since August 2006. Our three goals for … [Read more...]