9.7.09
You Belong with Us, in the Cloud
I am amused.
Why? Because I seem to have missed a piece of OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!! breaking news that was all over the tech press yesterday: Google has announced that it's making an OS that will run on normal PCs. Like all things Google, it will be a cloud thing. PC World, in their typical fashion of beating a horse until it's dead, dead, dead have devoted full half of their yesterday's newsletter to this new Google's pregnancy and the doom it spells on the Evil Empire.
It isn't the bombastic way it was announced that's the source of my amusement, although PC World's overreactions certainly bring smile to my face. It's the fact that I missed it in the first place, and the reason why I missed it: the early morning storm yesterday knocked out our network switch, and I didn't have internet connection for most of the day. Considering that, if you've been listening to the 'pundits' (I think I'll use this word as a derogatory term exclusively from now on), the future of personal computing is in the cloud, the irony is just... Not overwhelming, but close.
Why? Because I seem to have missed a piece of OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!! breaking news that was all over the tech press yesterday: Google has announced that it's making an OS that will run on normal PCs. Like all things Google, it will be a cloud thing. PC World, in their typical fashion of beating a horse until it's dead, dead, dead have devoted full half of their yesterday's newsletter to this new Google's pregnancy and the doom it spells on the Evil Empire.
It isn't the bombastic way it was announced that's the source of my amusement, although PC World's overreactions certainly bring smile to my face. It's the fact that I missed it in the first place, and the reason why I missed it: the early morning storm yesterday knocked out our network switch, and I didn't have internet connection for most of the day. Considering that, if you've been listening to the 'pundits' (I think I'll use this word as a derogatory term exclusively from now on), the future of personal computing is in the cloud, the irony is just... Not overwhelming, but close.
