codyg1985’s Think Tank

After acquiring the online word processor Writely, Google is seeking to continue to build an online alternative to Microsoft Office by developing an online spreadsheet program. Appropriately named Google Spreadsheets, the program allows you to create basic spreadsheets and save them in either CSV (Comma Separated Values) format or in the Microsoft Excel format […]

Today an attorney was abducted from downtown Birmingham, AL. A white, female attorney abducted by a black man. What a juicy story for the media to gobble up. And the local media did just that, providing updates as they occurred. At about 5:30 PM the attorney and the suspect were […]

Wired news has leaked the documents pertaining to its court case about illegal distribution of phone records:
Based on what we’ve seen, Wired News disagrees. In addition, we believe the public’s right to know the full facts in this case outweighs AT&Ts claims to secrecy.
Wired has posted the raw evidence from former AT&T employee Mark Klein.

A new band, The Fall, has been able to band together a community to accomplish what a commericial operation could never dream of doing: report at all the band’s concerts and upload MP3’s of the performances within a few hours of the concerts. The Fall is a great example of a band that […]

Ever since about 2001, I have been drawn to website forums.  I have met people on forums, and I have even ran a forum for two years.  I don’t know what draws me to forums; I guess people having a civil conversation about a subject in one forum and people just chilling and discussing a […]

Gosh, after looking at local promos for FOX 6 and ABC 33/40’s James Spann’s response to it, it seems like there is a war going on. Recently, I saw a FOX 6 promo that directly refers to ABC 33/40 giving away prises as a way to attract viewers while FOX 6 “empowers viewers.”  On a weather forum named […]

This guy was called up to be interviewed for a position at Google’s print division. He explains how the job interview went, and why he eventually turned down the position he was offered at the company.

Here is an excellent article that outlines the actions that one can take if someone steals something from your website or blog. Anyone that has a blog that they take seriously or anyone that owns is a part of a website should read this article. It is inevitable that one day you will […]

First it was the major networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS to lose viewers as people’s need were more catered by cable news networks. Now the internet is catering to people’s thirst for news more than any TV network could. Many news outlets are using the internet as a way to get any […]

Google News is a service that grabs news stories from many different sources and displays them to users. Unfortunately, some of those sources are not authentic, and what’s worse is that some of those sources are prank websites that posts fake news stories for humor.
A blogger noticed that the news aggregator was displaying links […]