''Google is a company that supports its LGBT employees, taking a public stand stand on issues that are important to our community. This is not the first year that Google has supported Pride, and it will certainly not be the last.'' on issues that are important to our community. This is not the first year that Google has supported Pride, and it will certainly not be the last.'' From a posting by Cynthia Yeung on the official Google Blog which features a series of photos of LGBT employees marching with Google/YouTube banners in several major US cities including San Francisco, ...

To those of you who managed to find me today, YAY!Google Reader/Friend Connect is not working. Mine says I'm not following anyone. Ack! Where are my blogger pallies? I hope they resolve this soon. Here is what it says on the Blogger Help Known Issues Page:Friend Connect is experiencing degraded performance this morning which is affecting many Blogger blogs. This results in several known issues:

• Your Blogger dashboard will report you are not following any blogs.
• Recently created blogs will see an error in their Followers gadget which indicates "Community not found".
• Managing followers from your Blogger dashboard is currently not working.
• Adding social

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This totally made me tear out my hair. Whoever is watching this at Google must be rubbing their hands together in satisfaction. ...

[caption id="attachment_1795" align="alignleft" width="108" caption="The current Miss California Tami Farrell. Photo from Google Images."][/caption] The new Miss California and former Miss Teen USA Tami Farrell also shares her predecessor's views that marriage is between a man and a woman, but according to The Advocate, she said, "I don't think I have ... ...

When Edmonton’s Pride Parade organisers invited Conservative MLA Doug Elniski to join in the festivities last week and be among the first-ever Tory participants, they probably hadn’t guessed he’d be Twittering and posting to his conservative blog at the same time. While waving to the crowd alongside three of his colleagues, Elniski proceeded to mock the event and its participants in real-time on his public Twitter account. Class act, that Doug! While the controversial tweets have since been scrubbed clean and his entire blog has been deleted altogether (it hasn’t escaped Google’s cached copy, mind you), here are just a ...

Yes you heard me correctly, according to This Is Kent, a strange triangular object has been sighted on Google Maps about a mile east of (Planet) Thanet. View Larger MapYoinked from Monsters of KentDear Constant Reader, haven't you missed Kentish references? ;) This blogger works for nothing but the joy of writing but always appreciates things bought from his wishlist ...

This post at The Best Article Every Day reminded me of a meme I launched years and years ago, on USENET. (I told you it was years ago.) Let’s say you get your hands on a brand new Time Machine. Whether it’s the old-school H.G. Wells chair model, or a tricked-out DeLorean, you’ve now got to decide what you’re going to do with your new toy. But before you run off and start messing up your life, sleeping with your grandmother, and investing in Google stock before the Internet was invented, we’ve got a few ideas for you. Here ...

My first mobile game, Rejoinder is being released on Tuesday. You’ll need one of the snazzy Google Android phones to get it. Tell all of your friends who have a T-Mobile G1 to download the game at the special introductory price. I’ll post more details on launch day. ...

…he was saying to me—“Why, Why, Zee?” Well, yes, I am safely in Toronto—not without a few minor misadventures: 30 minutes to pass through passport control at Schiphol. Getting stuck behind a dimwitted girl who had a cigarette lighter shaped like a bullet at security (She wasn’t surprised when it was taken away). Not finding the bus stop at Toronto’s Terminal 3. But it all worked out well. I got to my hotel about 5:30, grabbed a quick shower, ate dinner at some non-descript chain restaurant, watched the last 5 minutes of CBC news and the first half of the 22-minute hour, and ...

Seriously, maybe all hot boys have just one name? Not that I’m complaining. Ruben, photographed by Yves De Brabanderm, is from Sint-Truiden, Belgium. And this is one of the cooler “A Good Stiff Ones.” The photographs in this series, featured on East Village Boys, remind me a whole lot of that photographer who photographs himself falling. I can’t think of his name right now . . . and Google wasn’t being especially helpful right now, either. So, yeah, this hot, naked, falling boy? Who shows some peen (tastefully!) in the NSFW pics? ...

I've taken the Blind Search, a cool way of trying the Google, Bing and Yahoo at once (without knowing which is which) and to get to know which is the best one. I've tried it 20 times, with searches that are relevant to me, and this is the result:Google was best 9 timesBing was best 4 timesYahoo was best 3 timesand 4 times I couldn't decide which was best.A surprisingly clear victory to Google. Give it a try yourself, and see which search engine is best for your kind of searches! ...

• Find out more about online friends with Identify - CNET News A new Firefox extension lets you get more information about your online friends by cross-referencing their name with Google's Social Graph API.

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This is the Google salute logo to Tetris today...Remember Tetris??See: 25 years of Tetris from Russia with love sez Time Magazine.I was always more of a Galaga man myself. That and Pac-Man.... and Ms. Pac-Man if that's all that was available.Oh, and Centipede...... And old fashioned Pinball...... But, I digress. ...

I've been playing with Google Earth for the past week or so, looking at various places all over our wonderful home. As with any map, it has its faults. The most serious problem I have is with the various ages of the images. Sometimes you'll move across an area and the image dates will change from spring to winter (with snow) or change years and you'll see an active railroad suddenly become derelict. It's still fun, though, and a great waste of time.Moving right along with the book. Jumped over the 4,600 mark this morning. Just might be able ...

I get spam. Lots of it. It’s a waste of time and it amazes me that there are still people out there who even bother with doing it. One of the more personally entertaining ones I get, is the comment that says: I found this blog by searching for something else. This one intrigues me. If it’s to be believed, then keywords that have nothing to do with my blog are sending people to my blog. So I turned to my trust friend Google Analytics to see what sort of keyword searches were sending people here. Most of them were related ...

Yippee! Last month, one of my other blogs, Lola's Victory Garden was Google Page Ranked 2. The previous month it was Google Page Rank of Zero.Awesome! Lola's Diner maintained Google PR3 and my other blog, Fire Crotch Rocket, has maintained Google PR2. Yay!If you'd like to check your Google Page Rank, click Google Page Rank Checker.Lola's Diner©2008-2009 ...

I was just bored enough today to track down what Google searches brought the dozens here this week. Only one search query had anything of merit:Multiple NipplesI'm not quite sure what said searcher was after...but I have always found that more than one nipple is usually preferred. ...

I recently had the delightful experience of going to a program's website to submit a feature request, then seeing when I got there that the newest beta not only incorporated the feature I wanted to request but also a feature I requested in the previous iteration of the software. ManicTime is even more invaluable than before. Now I can type in the name of a transcription file and get exactly how much time I worked on it, no matter how other things I alt-tabbed to during the course of transcribing it. This lets me compare the audio time with ...

I've been told I don't blog anymore, so my folks don't know what I'm doing, and since they worry, they did the next sensible thing. Did they call? No. Did they email? No. Did they join Facebook? Yes. I think that's hysterical. So yeah, everybody friend my folks. Hey, did you hear Joan Rivers joined as well? Oh wait, that was Faceliftbook. Thanks very much. Here all week, Try the veal. Tip your servers. So anyway, why no bloggy, Bobby? I've been busy! Living, working, teaching (have had THE BEST students lately, it's been a shame to see them go), reading, plotting a novel, writing, seeing friends, ...