Google Wave is coming and it looks extremely interesting

Don't know what Google Wave is? This might help:



However, what it means more is that instant messaging, email, chat, collaboration, publishing, sharing, blogging, tweeting, social networking and especially bringing someone in to a conversation is all going to take a massive leap forward into real time.

This isn't something that is going to happen one day. It's happening and it's coming soon. It will change the way we talk online.

I really want this to be not photoshopped

How to know you're a geek #42,135

When you get an email like the below and you're happy about it.


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(Because, of course, you added him first)

We don't get spammed by just anyone, you know

Reading the emails and comments I've gotten this week while I've been recuperating (thank God for painkillers and Deep Heat is all I can say) I notice that spam comments are on the rise again. So I go about deleting what I find. They're the usual - clothes sites, painting sites, online gaming sites, insurance sites and then...



Oh yes.



That's right.

I get spammed by the Jedi Council. The Jedi Council. The Jedi Council. The Jedi Council of Morm-Jordil no less. Damn right. None of this small town, small island spam for me no more, I now get the spam from galaxies far far away.



Well, okay it's someone representing them, or directing me towards them or asking me to write to my local MP about Ewan McGregor. Oh okay, so it's not Yoda or Mace Windu or Yarael Poof or Ki-Adi-Mundi or Plo Koon. But it's still pretty cool, right? With 390,127 Jedis in the UK in 2001, it's got to count for something, eh? I mean, in spam terms, it's not often you get asked to defend the honour of someone like George Lucas, is it?

So there was I all geeky smug about it, till I googled it. And what did I find? Himself. The ould fella. The smug one with the new book. The git had already been there and blogged it. Sixteen months ago!

Donncha had as well in October. And some fella called Sean Bonner. So really, it's not special spam, not even a little.

So I deleted it. Ewan McGregor can continue his so-called treachery. Boo to Supershadow and all his ilk. I'm not happy being his fourth. Not happy at all.