Image via Wikipedia The enormity of what is happening and has happened in Japan is difficult to beleive. I'm not too sure that we're finished hearing new headlines, certainly from Japan, and if I lived on the Pacific coast side of the USA , I'd be jumping up at any noises in or around the house. It seems to be in the nature of people, even here in France - not particularly earthquake threatened, to build on risky places, take the chance and then wonder what went wrong. Some places it's difficult not to - like Japan - where it seems that the whole country is at risk - all the time. Of course, there are those people who insist that all this is " God 's revenge for the IInd World War atrocities" - they are just plain maniacs. Together with the invitation to view (below) here is a link to the Google participation Site.... http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html This is Google's participation....much criticised Google..... ...

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" BLOGGER " - the organ that is responsible for the publication of all the Blogs , has come up with a new idea....or is it Google Chrome who've come up with it.....? Either way, now - instead of having to click "older posts" or "Blog Archives" to read more, you just keep going down the page you're on, and when you get down near the end, it charges the next page automatically.....The idea is good, I'm just asking myself what effect this has on the visits register. After all - in the past you had to "reclick" to get older articles, which meant one more visitor.....! Either way, it is a service for the reader.....hope you like it...! Image via Wikipedia Incidentally, if it is only available using Google Chrome (and I don't know because I don't use anything else), then just one more reason to change to the best browser/navigator on the WWW....! You can read about it in "related articles" below: Related art...

http://www.googleartproject.com/ (click on the link or on the title of this article) Image via Wikipedia It is quite astounding some of the things " Google " come up with, and I'm sure that I haven't seen them all...! Every day there is something new that I stumble upon, and I'm always astounded with them. I recall many years ago having a CD programme which took me onto virtuelle tours of many things worldwide, probably the only way I'd get to them nowadays, but this Google "art project is truly amazing. You walk down as though you were there...you turn corners, you choose the different gallery - Exhibition rooms - you zoom in as though you walked towards the paintings..... In fact, from my last visit to the Tate in London , I recall the "guard" screaming "stay behind the markings" and security has only got tighter since then.....! OK - there's no tea room, but then there's no postcard sales either - you just click an...

Now, as some of you may already know, I just look all the time for things to amuse you all with, and quite some time ago, I found a thing called " ZEMANTA "..... You can look at this programme just by googlin' it, and downloading it if you wish, I thought I'd just let you know that I'm trying it again....from now on...! The problem was that it never worked on my old pc, possibly because of the technical capabilities, so I took it off. Basically it's a programme that finds "links" to subjects - all by itself...clever little thing! For example, I just talked about "pc" - so it went and got some images, like this one..... Image via Wikipedia remember thing's like that....? Zemanta does....! Sometimes useful - sometimes a pain...it will also find subjects that nobody wants to know about, like this: Image via Wikipedia Because.....to be honest....I don't want to know how to amuse an evening party.......I already know how to d...

They never stop at Google. Sometimes it annoys me - just getting used to something that works well, and the "whizz kids" change it, and invariably it doesn't work for a while! After the article yesterday about their "Google Chrome Operating System" I found out about "Google Lists"... Although I'm still playing around with it myself, I'm still going to try to interest you for this new thing. It all starts off with something I've used for a long time - "Google Bookmarks". You can find this under your page of "Google History". Many of you will already, like me, use this on a regular basis, but many others won't. (Here is a link of how to get to yours. Just click on "sign in as a different user, enter your Google account details, click and off you go...)   https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?hl=en&continue=https://www.google.com/history/&nui=1&service=hist&srr=1 On this programme, you ...

Image via CrunchBase Did you know that G-mail from Google has a super " anti-spam " system installed automatically, and it's rare I receive spam in my in box. Even when I receive it in my Spam box, it is covered top and bottom with red warning messages from Google saying - "this message may not be from whom it says it is - don't ever give details to anyone etc..". This "spam" DID arrive in my inbox, and may be a change in "tactical warfare" from the "Spammer Warlords" - you know - those guys sitting in shanty tin cabins, dressed up to the nines, surrounded by hungry, dirty little boys, who idolise them, tapping away on their keypads, and sending stupid messages to all and sundry! The AMAZING thing is - it still seems to work! There are, it seems still people out there greedy enough to think that a quick few thousands can be had! Well - they CAN'T!  Their "idolisers" are impressed because their hero can appar...

Here is the "Google" contribution to today (see the following article):                                                  Commémoration de l'Armistice du 11 novembre 1918 You should see it in English on the Google Search page.

There ARE companies who tell us things, honestly and openly. Although I'm not a "McDonalds" fan, I do like the publicity they have had for quite some time now, letting us know WHERE their stuff comes from, how it's prepared, what nutritional value it has and lots more. Up to us just how much from hamburgers and Co. we want to consume! Well - here's another company who gives us a little insight to their setup, or at least a part of it. Of course - you won't beleive it, at least not if you're one of those people who are afraid of Google's power.....! *************** Official Google Blog A green tour of the Google campus Posted: 15 Oct 2009 05:00 AM PDT ...

Image via Wikipedia http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=fr Google playing up....? It happens, less than Microsoft , but it happens! With this link, you can go and see if there's a known problem on any of Google "apps". Useful? Say "thank you" to Google and mrlemarquis!

Image via CrunchBase Here are examples of two types of mentality and "customer" approach on the Web: 1. Expensive - everything payable, little or no back up - this is the sort of thing you get: SophosLabs RT @ gcluley : RT @ theregister Microsoft knew of nasty IE bug a year before attacks: Security delayed or denied? http://tinyurl.com/mfbb9t 16 minutes ago from TweetDeck Good luck.....! ******************* Image via Wikipedia 2. Cheap - in fact mainly FREE: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139711.stm Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system. Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks , but will eventually be used on PCs as well. Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," the firm said in its official blog. The operating s...

(Click on photo to enlarge) Well - you live and learn..! I never knew there was a limit, but from the 39,000,000 entries for "SPAIN", I was allowed to see only 1,000 strange - ain't it!

If you want to read all about my problems with Google-click on the link/title (near the little orange arrow)!(iwmpop) Wow! I found an address where I was able to unblock my Account! Why can't Google simply suggest doing this in the first place? I didn't even know they were blockable, much less that it was blocked, and even less where to go to unblock the thing! As you can see, I got part III or IV (I've forgotten, with all the goings on) of Christmas 2006 Ron & Eff onto the site (by email) but with only a smiley as illustration! I'll put the other illustrations (all prepared and no place to go) onto the last part, or maybe in between the parts! (Always assuming that no buggar from Blogger locks me out again!) I'm a little bit happier, but by no way ecstatic about all this, but then, it's Christmas, folks, and I'm a forgiving type of guy! I'm even going to give Blogger a chance to reinsert himself in our society, by posting a photo for you all! Ron ...