NikkelNet

Googlified
Yes, that is now officially a new word. Googlified. Which describes my blog. My blog, my wonderful blog, has been googlified. See it’s catching on.
All you on facebook reading this (because I have facebook automatically import from my blog) won’t see the changes unless you go to my website/blog: NikkelNet. Now clicky clicky…

Ok. You should now be reading this from my website. Look around a bit…note the

• Top ad banner
• Google driven site-search box in the sidebar
• Skyscraper ad banner below the meta information

There is also an example video ad generator on this page here (or at least there will be soon once I figure out what the problem is…).

All are driven by Google AdSense, the incredible advertising platform developed by Google (see also, Google AdWords, which is how you advertise via Google), which allows normal people like me to monetize their crappy (but rapidly becoming less crappy) website content.

I use WordPress to drive my site now by the way (in case you didn’t notice), and I’m rapidly becoming proficient at hacking it’s code to bits to make it do what I want.

Google Lunar X-Prize
In case nobody saw as well, Google is sponsoring the next X-prize, dubbed the Google Lunar X-Prize. In short, there is a $20 million dollar prize for the first private entity that lands a robot on the moon, and drives it 500 meters across the surface while taking radioing back to earth at least 1 Gigabyte of high res digital still photography, high res near real-time video of the drive, and an unspecified amount of high definition video. I plan to participate in it…one way or another…
Google Earth Fire Feed
Also, for anyone interested in the raging fires in CA, there is a great Google Earth feed that shows the extent of the burn. It’s pretty amazing…you should check it out. My friends at JAI Camera Solutions, who donated hardware to Team Scorpion for the DARPA Urban Challenge, was supposed to head out to the Urban Challenge NQE this weekend at the Southern California Logistics Airport in
Victorville, CA, but their CEO is now not let them go because he fears for their lives (for good reason…he is from Denmark apparently and has no concept of the size of California…this fire would probably have swallowed Denmark alive!).

Global Warming

I haven’t had time yet to re-work my global warming post, but it’s coming soon people. Prepare to be un-Al-Gorified in a serious way. =)

I just spent an hour cooking up a great article about how Al Gore is a jackass and that problem with global warming is that it isn’t really much a problem, but Microsoft decided to screw me, and automatically shut my computer down (even though I told it not to 3 times) to install new stupid updates for crappy ass security flaws in their crappy, crappy software.

Oh well. The fat ass wins this round. He did invent the Internet after all…maybe he saw what I was writing and decided it was a threat. Maybe I’ll get inspired again sometime soon, and show you all with hard numbers, mathematics, engineering knowledge, and a crapload of links to real data (as opposed to the crap spewed around on national television) just how full of shit he is. I can’t believe he is actually going to be compared to Muhatma Ghandi.

-J