The world is flattening!

I'm almost through Friedman's The World is Flat and can conclude that the man is right on the mark. Read the newspapers from the last two weeks. China shoots down aging satellite, and now India brings a satellite back to earth from a polar orbit. This is not mundane computer/call center stuff guys... this IS rocket science. Article

They shoot they score!

Oh how quickly our little Chinese friends are developing their defense systems. "W" it's time to wake up and look skyward or to the far east... your call.

Article
Picosats: Because you can't shoot them all!

Google broken?

So I'm reading my gmail account today and glance up at the advertiser/sponsor section to find this little gem.

"Moon Beam Sorority - www.MoonBeamSorority.com - Buy A Gift To Celebrate A Girl's First Period."

Now I'm not sure what algorithm they are running on my email that determined they should display such an ad to me but now I understand how my friends feel when their Tivo starts recording "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". Seriously google the roommates are young but not that young... heck the only one left its pregnant!

Comics: The word Evil

Their are few people in this world who can truly use the word evil in it's correct form. My friend Aaron is one of those people. Today's Over the Hedge reminded me of Aaron, and actually I think the last panel is a quote from a conversation we have had before.
link to comic

Web x.0 here we come

Today was a difficult day at work... you know the first day back from vacation and all. So I'm sitting at lunch with my co-worker James when out of nowhere he says "You know I really don't wanna work today". Well we discuss that topic for a bit and everyone agrees it's a bad day to work.

Once we return from lunch James instant messages me some little question about an application and I respond that it is totally Web 2.0 compliant. James then forwards me this article . I read it and laugh typing:

Eric:Oh yeah just another 1 billion people... where the heck are we going to pull those from?

James: 100$ laptops!

Eric: Dude that billion with a "B"
If google was Web 2.0 I could use it to search for myspace accounts. :)

James: dude link

Eric: stop it!

James: Dude Web 6.0! Peru is eating our lunch!

Eric: OMG... lmao.
You really are bored aren't you

James: yeah sorry.

Eric: it's cool... let's go to the apple store, I think they have Web 8.0 beta inhouse.