Thomas Nybergh’s pages

Google has a fugly new favicon.ico. I liked the old one because of its relative colorfulness, and I find it somewhat puzzling that they chose to use a gray gradient in the new version. (Image borrowed from Google Blogoscoped)

The process of properly establishing the Finnish Pirate Party took a leap forward this weekend. A blog covering the party’s constitutive meeting in real time has however been suspended by Google/Blogspot. Xuenay, one of the party leaders writes the following on his personal blog: I just got back from the founding meeting of the Finnish [...]

Tämän tekstin julkaisin alkuperäisesti kommentina Tietoja koneesta-blogilla, jossa se toimii vastauksena Googlen uuteen Health-projektiin liittyvään lausuntoon. Terveystietojani en luovuttaisi Googlelle tässä vaiheessa, mutta mielestäni tietojen saaminen ja antaminen tarkasti määriteltävien suostumuksien avulla, jostain hyvin toteutetusta kansalaisten asiointipalvelusta, olisi kätevää. Kattava periaatekeskustelu luottamuksesta jättiyhtiöiden tai valtion tietoturvaa kohtaan olisi kuitenkin tärkää. Ennen kuin Googlelle luovutetaan enemmän [...]

Today when I switched to Firefox 3 Beta 2, I realized it was time to get rid of Google’s toolbar. I haven’t used this rather heavy, bloated extension for anything else than swiftly performing searches of the current website (queries such as site:420.thrashbarg.net wtf), and I guessed that a much smarter way of doing this [...]

As I was setting up my sister’s website I had one of those “How on earth did I manage to miss this?” moments: namely, the use of custom domains has been supported in free Feedburner accounts since early July this year. This is yet another example of how the Google empire is taking over the [...]