Service Unavailable….

by | Dec 20, 2009 | 0 comments

E-mail, Cellphone, Facebook, Twitter, IM clients. And to make things worse, all those things are
crosscombined. Are we ever truly unavailable? Think about it for a second. I know I am available
pretty much 24/7 through either one of these things and it really bugs me sometimes.

Those that knows me a little better knows that I have a slight aversion to phones, still I work
in an area where phones is a tool of the trade, but I handle pretty well I think.

Is this new form of availability the curse of the modern world? Well, in my opinion its
both “Yes” and “No”. Just yesterday there was 2 stories about twitter. First was the
couple who actualy twittered during their own wedding ceremony. Now, that has
gone too far. But, on top of that, was a mother who had a 2 year old that took
a plunge into the pool, and let her OTHER kid call 911 while she twittered about it!

I dont know about the rest of you, but I almost started to cry, big macho man that I am (I can hear
you laughing, stop it!) If my kid had taken a dunk into the pool and was unconcsious(sic due to lack of coffee?)
I wouldnt be texting Twitter about it, I would be frantic trying to give my kid CPR, and when the paramedics
came, I would let them do their job while nervously hovering over them chewing off the last of my nails.

Now, In the defence of social networking, there was ALSO a topic about a girl that was pretty much forced
to stay in her apartment by a man wielding a knife. She updated her facebook from her mobile phone,
friends noticed and called 911 and the police came and resolved the issue, so they are not all bad even though
they are starting to take more and more of our time. Let me give you something to look at for referrence.

This is what I am using, some more rare then others, but still, I have accounts.
Facebook
Myspace
Helgon
Yahoo Messenger
AOL Instant messenger
MSN Messenger
ICQ
Paltalk
Skype
Google Wave

Not to mention all the different email adresses that I am having, some that comes with the IM clients, some that
are used for different reasons. Currently I have 3 active ones that I use. 1 for work, 1 for receiving spam and 1
for private usage. Then of course there is my cell phone, wich ironically enough, gives me access to all the ones
mentioned above.

People say that technology can isolate, and I guess that is in some extent true if you just sit there and look
dumbfounded at your screen, but really, what technology causes most is the stress of knowing that anyone
can reach you at any time, and still you have the feeling that you dont wanna miss out with the small action
of unplugging.

Oh the dilemma.

Now I have to twitter about this post…..

Sights on Google usage

by | Dec 14, 2009 | 0 comments

excessive googling.

Working as tech support, you sometimes notice impact of things to a higher
extent than what you think would be possible. A good example is Google.

When you are sitting with a client on the phone and you give them a
URL to visit to solve their problems, or, something that they need
to download to ensure security, and VERY often, they put a cursor
up at the adress field, and then types www.google.com and THEN
searches for the URL on google…. What the hell is that about!
I will not use the term “googling” it, because that really is
not a correct term yet. It is something that is commonly used yes
but what you really are doing, is doing a search in a searchengine.

Even though Google is a large player in the searchengine market and I wont
dispute that for a second. However I still think that Google is being
overused to the extent of causing stupidity. Google might aswell not
create a search when someone types in a url but instead if the URL.

There are so many different ways to remember adresses on the web but
for some reason, people cant seem to fathom how to use bookmarks
or browser history. Why is that? Have people relinquished their
tools and handed their own actions into Google?
is found as active, instantly send the person searching to that adress.

Now, some of you remember the childhood of internet when altavista was
the search engine of choice. It did have an impact yes, but not such
a profound one as google, and if i remember, altavista was also the first
company who made a swedish adaptation of the engine, they called it evreka
and from what I can remember, it was half descent. After that, I switched
to metacrawler and then I started to use google due to a friends insistance.

So yes, I do use Google and I dont begrudge those guys their success, they
have worked very hard at it, but, as the features grow, the ease of use
lessens. Their latest venture however, needs a little better implementation
before it gets me jumping up and down.

So if you want a google wave invite, well, lob me a comment with your email
adress and ill see to it.