Contrary to popular belief, Gmail was actually created in 1988.
That’s code by caker, one of the admins over at my favorite hosting provider, Linode. You can see all the “g-mail” code he could find. Unfortunately:
<@caker> there’s more, but that’s all I could find. Pretty sure my 3.5″ floppies labeled “g-mail backup” no longer function
…as summed up by Joel Johnson. (Thanks to Aaron Colflesh for the link!) Children be warned that our good buddy Joel uses some grown-up words to describe the stuff you’re throwing tantrums to get every Christmas.
For anyone too lazy or squimish to read the article, let me sum it up for you: Gadgets suck.
In other news I thought I might be a neo-luddite for hating gadgets, DRM, and people who pretend tags are new when they’re just keywords which have been around forever. A quick skim of the Wikipedia article on neo-luddism made me realize I’m not that extreme, but rather, just grumpy and sleep deprived most of the time.
Instant messages from a friend who I’m sure would blog this but can’t for obvious reasons:
Steve: I’m making an emergency run to best buy for someone because they need 6 UPSs and they won’t make it in time
Steve: and I’m going to spend $1200 of my own money and someone will meet me with cash in a town 40 miles west of me (the best buy is 40 miles east of me and closes in an hour)
Steve: he works for a bank and it is apparently for them
Steve: the cash exchange will happen in a gas station parking lot
And that my friends is how IT in the banking industry works: money exchanged in the parking lot of gas stations for consumer grade equipment thats bound to be put in a mission critical position.
Steve, you know who you are, and you know what site to submit your story to. 
Central Illinois is shut down today by 6-12 inches of snow! In true Central Illinois style there’s a nice 1-2 inches of sleet/ice below the snow just for some added excitement.
I wish I had a digital camera because everything is just beautiful here. Instead I’ll leave you with the only acceptable movie recommendation:
For Samantha’s new job at First United Methodist Church in Peoria, she and I are supposed to send them a photo along with a 2 paragraph bio for the church newsletter. After reading today’s Pearls Before Swine, I’ve decided its a better description of who I am than I could ever come up with in 2 paragraphs:
Alright, that’s enough navel gazing… Back to the geek blogs…
So my friend Dan blogged his results from MyHeritage.com’s free celebrity facial comparison.
Evidently I look Asian because my #1 result was a South Korean actor, Bae Yong-jun.
After that I had a bunch of ties:
 Pope Pius XII |
 Linus Torvalds |
 Ryan Reynolds |
If you know me, then you realize these results are funny on so many levels.
(For the record the photo I used was when I had a beard and was wearing glasses. Somehow none of my results had beards, but almost all of them wore glasses.)
