Mr. Speaker

OOooh, I’m all giddy! Moments ago I discovered today’s release from Google: Google Gears. It’s like they reverse-engineered some advanced cookie technology from a crashed web-based UFO. Or something similar.

I’m typing this post as I explore, so we’ll see how my opinions of it change from now to the end of the post - I predict I’ll be impressed, but a little wary.

Google Gears is a cross-browser extension that integrates all manner of nifty tools to allow web application providers to make their apps work off-line. There are two main aspects to the release: database and local server.
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Bug fixing web services at 8.30am on a Monday morning is not really that much fun. The first 2 coffees haven’t even started kicking in yet. And a crashing IDE doesn’t usually help the situation along either.

Usually doesn’t - but the error message returned to me today has added a slight spring to my (normally lifeless) Monday morning step:

Thank you ReSharper, you’ve given me hope for an enjoyable week ahead…

Tags: crash

Nah, I’ve got nothing.

Let’s get this straight - I ain’t nobody’s shill. I don’t shill. But I am a half-decent consumer and I can appreciate a good product. As rare as they might be.

So I’m lending some valuable Mr Speaker cyber^* space to The PlusDeck 2c Cassette Player - which transcends the status of mere “good product” and reaches towards the realms of the consumer-good God.

It takes a couple of minutes to comprehend the genius that is the PlusDeck 2c: A 5.25″ front-loading drive that plays cassettes. Cassettes!

CASSETTES!

Anyway, I can’t stay here yapping about it all day. I’m only up to 1985 Bustin’ Thru. After that I’ve got 1986 Way To Go, then some He-Man, JEM and the Holograms, and Amway motivational tapes. What an afternoon.

After I figure out a killer set I reckon I’ll be ready for the 2007 Cassette Jockey World Championships. I just need another PlusDeck, and a microphone.

^*Cybernetic.

Tags: tapes, shill