Thursday, November 19, 2009

Relevant search results

[[this was from days ago...I'm finally clicking Publish]]

Most of you know that I'm not a big sports buff. It's my least favorite (and least successful) category on Trivial Pursuit. I can't recall sitting down to watch many games on TV (besides the Super Bowl, but I have fond memories of going to Angels games, and I think I even went to a Dodgers game with my uncle. I've also attended the Mighty Ducks, the Anaheim Bullfrogs (pro roller hockey), and a BYU college football game.

In any event, because of my co-workers, I was aware of the Navy game this past weekend. Not wanting to feel out of the loop (and wanting to gauge the mood of the crowd Monday morning), I simply typed "navy football" in the Google search box. This is what showed up:


Just what I was looking for. Looks like they won! Way better than TellMe...

Monday, November 9, 2009

Build your own Pac-Man

Jill shared this YouTube video with me. I figured it deserved a spot in the Technology & Innovation Hall of Fame. Just for being crazily awesome.

The creators' website is here.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Teach Chrome New Tricks


When Google Chrome is open, you can press CTRL-M to open a user profile dialog box. Select the drop-down menu, select , give your profile a new name, and then Chrome will ask you if you want to make a shortcut for this user profile.

I said yes, then dragged the shortcut into my Windows Start area, right underneath the other Chrome shortcut that replaces the Internet Explorer option for Internet.

Awesome, huh? And for a while I believed some of the old posts about how Chrome didn't support multiple user accounts, like Firefox does.