I thought I’d play hooky from a meeting and talk about how the newest version of the Toolbar handles 404 pages for users, because I see some people writing about it this morning.
We tried to give a heads-up in a couple places. The Toolbar beta 5 announcement on the Google blog mentioned “You’ll get suggestions [...]

One of Google’s goals is that you should be able to throw just about anything into a search box (package tracking numbers, airline flight numbers, etc.) and Google will try to do something reasonable, such as return the status of a flight. Recently I was trying to reverse engineer a USB protocol and needed to [...]

One interesting thing about my job is that I get to see a lot of unusual claims. Recently I was on an email thread and the images team wanted to address a misconception. Google Images doesn’t have a dedicated blog right now, so I offered some space on my blog if someone wanted to do [...]

Unless you want registered users to be able to edit your blog posts, you should update your WordPress installation to version 2.3.3. It’s a small change, and if you want to you can just replace your xmlrpc.php file with a newer version.
By the way, if you followed the advice in my recent security tips for [...]

Sometimes when you install Ubuntu (a flavor of Linux) and then try to install new packages, you get this annoying message:

Media change: please insert the disc labeled
‘Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release i386 (20071016)’
in the drive ‘/cdrom/’ and press enter

To fix that message, click on
System->Administration->Software Sources and uncheck the “CD-ROM/DVD” option at the [...]