phil ringnalda

Back from the trout wars, and ready to dive in again (perhaps). I really should just do a linkdump to cover the highlights of the last couple of weeks, but my post count is in need of padding, so I’ll be annoying and separate it all out. ‘Ware, aggregators.

Julian Bond comments that it doesn’t look terribly hard to hack Google’s ToolBar PageRank report. I assume that by now Google’s lawyers (who I picture as looking like Dilbert accounting trolls, only not so nice) have eaten him, polished the bones, and created a not-too-convincing Terminator around them, but if someone else wants to pick up the idea, that would be sweet. I understand that there are people who like the toolbar for search purposes, though I can’t imagine why (if I want to search Google, I type ‘google "shannon campbell"‘ in Firebird’s addressbar, and it takes me right to a Google search with results from my site eliminated, if I want to search Google Images, I type ‘gim Sandra Bullock naked‘, er, ‘gim pretty butterflies‘, etc., thanks to Firebird’s quick search bookmarks), but the approximate PageRank from the toolbar is one of the very few reasons why I fire up Internet Explorer anymore.