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Mitt Romney - 'Binders full of women' image search results at Google

Mitt Romney - 'Binders full of women' image search results at Google. This image shows the current Google image search results when you search for "binders full of women" (late in the day, October 17, 2012).

 

By Alvin Alexander on October 18, 2012

Charts of recent tech stock IPOs

With the Facebook IPO coming up this week, I thought I'd take a quick look at recent IPOs from other tech companies. These charts generally show the early months after an IPO.

With thanks to Yahoo for the graphics, here are the charts:

Angie's List:

CafePress:

Google:

By Alvin Alexander on May 15, 2012

A Mac Siri like app (SARAH, from Eureka)

If you haven't been following me on Twitter, I've been working on a Mac Siri app lately during my spare time. The app itself is actually inspired by the smart house named "SARAH" on the tv show Eureka. The app itself is written in Scala, and is free and open source.

It's a lot easier to show you what my version of SARAH is, so here's a video demonstrating a recent version:

By Alvin Alexander on October 20, 2012

Java GWT programming jobs in Denver, Boulder, Colorado

I just moved to the Denver and Boulder, Colorado area last month, specifically ending up in Broomfield, Colorado. I've been poking around the local computer programming job market, and one of the real surprises for me has been how much the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is used in Corporate America here in Colorado.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

Report search engine spam (and SEO abuse)

Tired of seeing "junk" in the Google search engine results pages? This week I'm launching a new website named Report Search Spam (ReportSearchSpam.com), where regular, everyday users will be able to report the search engine spam they see.

You know search engine spam when you see it:

By Alvin Alexander on June 6, 2011

Letting Google know about broken links I've fixed

Last night I spent some time going through my Google Webmaster's account, and found a listing of a large number of links I had broken on this website, largely because I removed the old, stale "directory" I had on this site. That was a Yahoo-style phonebook directory that made sense in 1999, but doesn't make much sense in 2011.

By Alvin Alexander on June 6, 2011

Drupal 7 meta tags module - latest information

Drupal 7 meta tags FAQ: Is there a meta tags module for Drupal 7? (Or, what's going on with the Drupal 7 meta tags module?)

(Note: This article was last updated on March 24, 2011.)

Drupal 7 meta tags module information

Having just gone through the meta tags process with a Drupal 7 website on February 9, 2011, here's what I know:

By Alvin Alexander on April 4, 2011

A Chrome OS notebook (netbook) test?

A Chrome OS notebook test? - As a friend wrote to me the other day, "Want to try a Google Chrome OS notebook? Take you current notebook/laptop/netbook, fire up the Chrome browser, put it into full screen mode, and see how long you can work that way."

By Alvin Alexander on December 19, 2010

The network is the computer - The Chrome OS mantra?

After I posted on Twitter that the Google Chrome OS reminded me of the Tektronix X-Terminals we used at NASA around 1990, a friend tweeted the reply, "The network is the computer."

If you know anything about Unix history, you know "The network is the computer" was the slogan of Sun (nee Sun Microsystems) for many years. I remember reading an article one time where Sun executive said something like, "We don't really know what it means, but we like it", in regards to this slogan.

By Alvin Alexander on December 11, 2010

A Google News funny

Every once in a while technology leads to something pretty funny. For me today it was the Google News page, showing a story about a California mayor being arrested after a "wild-ride purse snatching." The funny thing was that Google News had the story under the category "Data Storage", which I can only assume was a reference to the storage capabilities of the woman's purse. Here's a partial snapshot of the Google News page:

By Alvin Alexander on August 6, 2011
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