Archives for: February 2006, 25
Google fails to see vistas
I just typed Windows Vista into Google, they added that image thing to the web search now too, the three images it shows up are all of Windows XP.

Oh dear. Windows XP, Windows XP and Windows XP. Not one screenshot of Windows Vista. Before anyone points out - the first one is just a themed Windows XP. It's not Windows Vista.
This is pretty disappointing. Even on the image specific search. Only one of the images is of Windows Vista - which is running inside Virtual PC so it doesn't have the cool UI, the other two a hacked Windows XP - and Windows XP.
If you go and do the same search on MSN Search you'll see not one image on the first page is of Windows XP - they're all of Windows Vista itself or of related artwork or photographs, I've even gone back several pages and the results are still good.
I know there's a lot of results for Windows Vista and a lot of them are junk. But come on, aren't Google suppose to be good at sorting out the junk?
Google 0 - 1 Microsoft.
SN 2006X
About 56 million years ago a star, exploded into what we call a Type 1A Supernovae.

Click for a before and after shot
Here it is announcing itself to us, we first detected this about 3 weeks ago and it's around peek brightness now, over time it will fade back down and we'll probabaly never see it again.
I love supernovae, that one star outshines everything in it's galaxy. All the other stars in that image around the same brightness are actually in our galaxy - so they're around ten thousand times closer.
Now if only Eta Carina would finally go, or better yet something I can see from the northern hemisphere!








25th February 2006 19:39:04, 184 words, 350 views