Mostly about my amusement
I sometimes check the blog against Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer to make sure that something I did to the theme works in browsers other than Firefox.
Here’s what I saw when I loaded my home page in Safari.
Google Adsense sure has a good sense of humor.
The machine translation I am using is giving me problems. More accurately Google thinks my server is a compromised machine with spyware and BabelFish changed something so my pages are not being translated.
I’m not complaining because both service are free and reminds me of why some people really dislike machine translation.
For now I’ll turn off the plugin. the translated URL’s (http://blog.dembowski.net/de/ for example) takes the user to the original article, so this is not really a big deal.
Google’s Voice Local Search is an experimental service where you can dial their 411 information number 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) and look up businesses by voice.
I just used it and got connected to a local restaurant.
I was on speaker phone, there was a lot background noise, and the voice prompter understood what I was saying. It’s your typical voice recognition setup, just the back end is data collected by Google. The prompter was easy to understand and reacted correctly when I would interrupt it to cut to the chase. It read to me the business I selected and connected me to the restaurant.
Of course I gave the phone to Lily for making reservations. It’s not like I want to speak to a real person…
Google Labs logo lifted from their website.
