Real-Time Google Earth GPS Tracking
In a recent trip I incorrectly assumed that real-time tracking of
Google Earth's pre-cached maps with a GPS receiver would be sufficient
help for navigating around the highways in Los Angeles.
I therefore experimented with the way Google Earth's
sparsely-documented real time tracking works,
and wrote a small program to interface Google Earth with a GPS receiver.
Fortunately, after seeing a colleague drive with a car-GPS device
on the dashboard I came to my senses, and got a real
Garmin Nuvi
car-GPS device.
Continue reading "Real-Time Google Earth GPS Tracking"Last modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 4:42 pm
Google in China
Google "don't be evil" Inc. launched a self-censored version of
its service for China.
Continue reading "Google in China"Last modified: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 5:51 pm
US Military Removes Word Documents from the Web?
On August 25th 2004 the comp.risks forum
run an article I submitted
regarding the large number of Microsoft Word documents available
on US milatary sites (sites in the .mil domain) through Google
searches
(23.50 "U.S. military sites offer a quarter million Microsoft Word documents").
The article documented how such documents could lead to the leakage
of confidential data.
A week later I setup a script to watch the number of Word documents
available through Google searches
to see if and when the military would recognise the threat those
documents posed and remove them.
Continue reading "US Military Removes Word Documents from the Web?"Last modified: Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:16 pm
Google's Web Accelerator as a P2P CDN
I admire Google's guts in deploying their
Web Accelerator.
Proposing to act as an intermediary for the whole planet's web
traffic takes a lot of courage and a certain amount of audacity.
Interestingly, the system's design can be quite scalable,
through the use of peer-to-peer and personalization technology.
Continue reading "Google's Web Accelerator as a P2P CDN"Last modified: Thursday, May 5, 2005 9:41 am
U.S. military sites offer a quarter million Microsoft Word documents
I was Google-searching for the Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation
Center publication "Software Maintainability - Evaluation Guide". To
make my search more efficient I restricted it to military (.mil) sites,
using the Google keyword "site:.mil".
I was not able to find the publication I was looking for, but was surprised
to see a number of Microsoft Word documents in the search results.
Continue reading "U.S. military sites offer a quarter million Microsoft Word documents"Last modified: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:11 pm
Google Mail and Privacy
I recently subscribed to Google mail, to obtain a reasonable alias
(I thought I could get my loved dds initials, but it turned I would
have to use at least 6 characters). However, I doubt I will use the
service, because I really don't trust Google to search through my
personal email data. I have 300MB of email now, representing about
18 years of email discussions. (I routinely remove all attachments,
which I file separately, so the size of my emails is relatively modest).
If I trusted Google, I would like to upload all my messages to their
servers, and utilize Google's awesome search capabilities. However,
the truth is, I see too many ways for the service to be misused.
Continue reading "Google Mail and Privacy"Last modified: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:06 am
