This is a very useful article to learn how to spot logical fallacies in debates once they are used

Today I’ve came to work unusually early, open my pc screen, logged in and signed in our attendance system on the intranet. The system was very slow due to memory leaks caused by open applications from last night, I started to close these applications one by one to clear the memory and get back to work. I run a little heavy application for a while then little minutes later I get an IE7 exception that caused that heavy application to crash too, my machine crashes totally and rendered useless so I had to reset it to start from a clean state with no accumulated memory leaks. I restart my machine and log in again and open outlook again to check my mails which lags for a while then crashes, also the yahoo messenger and IE7 again. I wait for a while then open these applications again, then it start raining Microsoft error reporting messages asking me to tell Microsoft about what just happened, some was from IE7 some was from outlook I opened one of the reports to find it was from the MOSS server that is running on my machine. I’ve a dual core processor and 2GB of RAM and all my software is licensed and my machine isn’t a hybrid and I’m running Windows Server 2003 BUT I must suffer daily from this, although my machine is perfect and my software is licensed and my machine is administered by a highly qualified person (which in this case is me) but I still have crashes because of software bugs. Should I switch to the open source world?

These days everybody is talking about standards, so let see how they are following them

using the HTML W3C validator i found the following results

lets start with Microsoft, there is 29 error

then Google, where i found 30 error

then Yahoo, there is 34 error

of course Mozialla have no errors but believe it or not they do have errors in there inner pages like this one but not that much they are only 6 errors

Digg have 94 errors!!

YouTube have 169 errors!!!

and facebook have a good score of 37, not bad for a 10 billion site

and of course the only site that passed validation with 0 errors was W3C but i don't know why for some reason they don't like to validate there own validator (update: they do now with 0 errors)

so as i've said everybody would love to talk about following standards by the book, but in reality they don't. i've also made the same test on local standards promoters in egypt, and guess what? they failed the test

so what can we call this? maybe hypocrisy?

I’ve just had this thought passing by within my brains so I thought that I should blog it. Google have become one of the most famous and powerful firms that work in the internet field. I still remember the good old days when Google was a starting cool search engine that not everybody knew about, now things has changed Google is no more just about search, Google now is about mail, blogging, online communities, advertising, videos and more. Everyday I find and discover new cool services that Google has developed, and guess what Google don’t just stops at innovating and developing new services, Google is buying, Google is buying every successful new service online, Google is buying or trying to buy there competitors. Take for instance YouTube, Google already have there own video service but they bought YouTube so they don’t have a competitor in that area. And now Google is trying to buy Facebook. I’m of course not trying to badmouth Google here, we all love Google, and everybody thinks that Google is great, Google is one of the most great internet contributors which have changed the face of the digital life we live today. But what really makes my mind buzz is the Google buying attitude, they are just trying to buy every successful project online, and they bought many, so how is this is going to look like in a more 5 years? In the internet beginning there was Yahoo, the most famous site ever, now Yahoo is fading away while Google is conquering the internet, so what is really going to happen when Google succeed to buy every famous successful site or service online? Might they become the next big brother? They already know what people are searching for and they can manipulate the search results, they know too much about me and you, our search history, our mails, our blogs and even our meetings and events in our calendars. If they managed to buy Facebook or control the online communities with there new innovative idea Flixster the community development platform, they will be able to know your friends and the friends of there friends and every personal info about you. Simply they can manipulate the internet and control what we know and know what about us what don’t like others to know, we all agree that knowledge is power and this specific kind of knowledge is very powerful and might be very destructive. The internet has proved in several occasions how it’s easy to transmit irritating news on it to the whole world causing rage and riots, so imagine if Google can manipulate this? Imagine if you open your gmail account tomorrow to find a politic irritating anonymous message that might cause some to get down to the street and engage in riot actions, imagine if your boss received a mail with the a list of the sites you have been browsing at work hours? That might contain the competitor careers web page. Such actions can be hard to trace or proof. You say Google have a privacy statement? Do you trust this privacy statement? Did you even read it? Do you trust every employee at Google? Are you sure that Google won’t sell your info? Do you think Google stores your data in an anti nuclear bombs bunker? What if these data has been leaked some how?! You really need to ask your self these questions. Yes I know this may sound a little paranoid but there is an old saying that says power leads to corruption, and Google is becoming very powerful.