Google God

Google Docs Offline App At Far Right. Yeah, so I play Angry Birds. What's your point? It's a metaphor, and highly political. Are those eggs fertilized? Do they merit the destructive fury of avian parents? Is an unfertilized egg morally worth starting a war over? Does the ham-and-eggs subtext imply a masochistic or self-destructive complex in the porcine "villains"? I consider it research.A couple of weeks ago, I posted about some of the gaps in Google's bid to become God.  One of those objections was the problem of working offline with Google Documents.

Obviously the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and clearly Google monitors this blog closely. <ahem>

There's  a decent offline app for Google's Chrome browser now.  I'm test-driving it in class today, and it seems to be what was wanted.

One small step closer to apotheosis. 

But even minor deities should be able to paginate their documents... .

G+ And The Cloudy Future

The cloud's really no more convenient than carrying my laptop. It might be, if the G-Docs suite (or Microsoft's Live Office) were more functional. Until then, carrying a laptop and onboard applications that can actually handle my documents will prevail. And that's a bit like saying that I prefer taking my car to work until the public transportation is really futuristic and amazing, I guess, but that's the way it is. I hate Microsoft: but I need it for the moment. The future is the Cloud. But the shape of the cloud isn't yet Google shaped, though Google is positioning itself to dominate the cloudy sky.

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Google Plus

I think that we need Google+ in case Facebook ever springs a leak. It's like a digital lifeboat so that Stupid Bullshit can be saved when Facebook falls victim to subversive squads of hackers who decide that we've gotten too self-absorbed.

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Letter To My Dean: Office of Information Technology & The Otter

I would tell you also about my calls to the "Help" desk. But Aristotle cautions us that when purging ourselves of pity and terror we should not overdo it.

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