Tag Archives: Google

Geoff’s Fillipino-Finnish-Greek Movie Game

I got (disturbingly) inspired by Google Translate, and thought I’d come up with a competition. I’ve taken three movie quotes, and put them through Google Translate: four times. First from English to Fillipino, then Fillipino to Finnish, then Finnish to Greek, then Greek to English again. First person to recognise the source of all three [...]

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Google Reader can now be read offline!

Google Reader has just taken the jump from being a purely online feed-reader to providing functionality that allows me to read any of my 2000 last Google Reader subscription items without needing to be online. It does this through what is ultimately a browser plugin: “Google Gears”. Once you install the Google Gears plugin – [...]

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Top 6 Top Sixes for a Top ’06

In the spirit of retrospectiveness, the season, and my “55405″ post from about this time last year – as well as an attempt to participate in the ProBlogger Group Writing Project, here are a collection of Top Sixes – six of them in fact, for the past year. Most of them are probably just in [...]

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Doing my bit for our right-wing parliamentarians

Had to have a laugh when a recent blog visitor had reached the site by searching for “pinko lefty insults” – for which I am the number 1 Google response. But my giggles increased dramatically in volume when I saw where the search had originated – the Parliamentary library in Canberra. So you never know [...]

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Google Triumph!

To my amusement, my trawling through referral statistics and the like have uncovered a top class achievement. The number 1 page for “Geoff with girlfriend” on a Google Search is….. you guessed it – TheGeoffRe(y)port! It’s a proud day! I’d like to thank all the people who made this possible, specifically, um, my girlfriend. (And [...]

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