rudyamid on March 30th, 2011 at 3:59 pm

Last year, I blogged about the possibility of Google installing super-fast broadband internet to my city Anaheim.  A year has passed and Google has just decided to give it to Kansas City, Kansas.  Lucky them!  Hundreds, if not thousands of people, are getting 1000 Mbps broadband connections. It’s a step towards the future for everyone […]

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rudyamid on November 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am

Without fail, every time Google releases something, the crowd is all over it.  I’m certainly a fan.  Other than the usual Google search, I use a lot of their applications on a daily basis.  Google does produce mostly good stuff, but some are just fluff.   Here’s the quick rundown: Google Usefulness Life Magazine photo archives […]

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rudyamid on October 29th, 2008 at 5:59 am

Ever since I attended the JBOSS World User Conference in February 2008, I’ve been getting a lot of junk emails from companies touting “Cloud Computing” technologies.  It’s the latest buzzword in the tech industry.  With big players such as Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, it sure gets a lot of attention.  Essentially, cloud computing is the […]

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rudyamid on October 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Ever wonder if your site made it in Google back when they first started? Google just put up a nostalgia page featuring their oldest index.   It’s a full featured search page, returning the crawled web pages in the year 2001.  To my surprise, searching for my last name revealed my good old domain name […]

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rudyamid on July 16th, 2008 at 11:08 am

Lee at Epiblogger pointed me to this neat Google Maps WordPress Plugin. I had trouble getting it to work initially, but after a few tweaks, I figured it out. In this post, I’m featuring my “Lunch Bits” Editions 1-19 on the map below. Click on an orange marker to see the pop-up info of the […]

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