Category Archives for Internet

17,530% on Google on Friday

Options traders who predicted Google Inc. would beat estimates earned as much as 17,530 percent on their investments today, the most-profitable bet among all U.S. equity derivatives. Contracts giving the right to buy Google shares for $530 before the close … Continue reading →

19. April 2008 by Scott K
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Quotes in Google News

I just saw this post entitled, Words Matter, on one of the Google blogs that I follow. This new addition to Google News allows you to type in a person’s full name on the standard Google News search to display … Continue reading →

18. April 2008 by Scott K
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Spammers have horrible grammar

Here’s a spam email that I just received: Hi, I see you are expressed interest in my item by bidding, i want to tell you that i have for sale, the winner of my auction didn’t respond to my emails. … Continue reading →

01. March 2008 by Scott K
Categories: Funny, Interesting, Internet | Tags: , | 1 comment

My complaint about Gmail

I love Gmail. Yeah, I know the title is regarding a complaint. However, no other email application either online or through a standalone program on the hard drive is as good. It is fast, free, has a ton of space, … Continue reading →

01. November 2007 by Scott K
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Games for the Brain

Games for the Brain has a bunch of fun and challenging (some more so than others) online games. Check them out!

04. October 2007 by Scott K
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The World’s Worst Scammer

Interesting story about a person who scams an Ebay scammer.

30. September 2007 by Scott K
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Gmail: Behind the Scenes

A compilation of clips submitted by Gmail fans as part of our collaborative video project. Selected from over 1,100 clips from fans in more than 65 countries. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/mvideo This was very well done!

24. September 2007 by Scott K
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Strange Spam

Not that I look at all the spam I get, but I do like to occasionally look to see if the amount is abating or to see the email addresses that are receiving the spam. Just recently I started to … Continue reading →

23. September 2007 by Scott K
Categories: Funny, Internet | 2 comments

Why I love my homepage

For the last few years my homepage has been Google News. It provides a quick, simple, unbiased look at the most important news issues. It scours news sites from all over the country and world, from small town newspapers to … Continue reading →

17. September 2007 by Scott K
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Should Google Go Nuclear?

Google Tech Talks November 9, 2006 ABSTRACT This is not your father’s fusion reactor! Forget everything you know about conventional … all » thinking on nuclear fusion: high-temperature plasmas, steam turbines, neutron radiation and even nuclear waste are a thing … Continue reading →

17. September 2007 by Scott K
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