neurological dryer lint

cnet has an article about rumors of google's possible thin-client OS - think of it as only running a browser on your PC, and accessing all of your services (instant messaging, email, search, word processing, music, etc) through it.

i'm a fan of this methodology - i don't necessarily think bigger is better in terms of PC hardware. small, light, cheap devices that only need enough juice to run a web browser and maintain a network connection - think of what that would do for communications and information access in the future. carrying a 1lb tablet PC around instead of the laptop. of course people have been calling that vision "the future of computing" for twenty years, ever since the network became ubiquitous.

i've talked before about how i would love to run a googleOS - and i think they'd be the people to make this happen. besides their as-yet-untarnished mantra of "don't do evil", they seem to be really good at their job of making information available and easily located for everyone, for free. google maps is amazing, if you haven't played with it yet... they just made gmail public yesterday (if anyone still doesn't have it that wants it i have 50 invites left)... it's sheer, blatant, probably foolish optimism to think this - but can these guys make a bad product?

nothing much else going on this week, lots of training, figuring out some more wedding stuff, etc... oh i watched wicker park last night from netflix. i liked the path the director took to tell the story - but not until the end, at first it was annoying. so-so acting, an interesting, strange, fairly suspenseful story... eh.

listening to: weezer - why bother?