Game On!

Super Bowl? Super Tuesday? No, in my opinion, the biggest clash that is well and truly engaged today is Google vs. a team of Microsofties and Yahoos.

Microsoft's press release contains a copy of the letter from Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board. The letter contains this very interesting bit of news:

In February 2007, I received a letter from your Chairman indicating the view of the Yahoo! Board that “now is not the right time from the perspective of our shareholders to enter into discussions regarding an acquisition transaction.” According to that letter, the principal reason for this view was the Yahoo! Board’s confidence in the “potential upside” if management successfully executed on a reformulated strategy based on certain operational initiatives, such as Project Panama, and a significant organizational realignment. A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved.

We are in for a very interesting year as this proposed merger moves ahead, and a very interesting battle of the titans if the Microsofties and Yahoos are allowed to combine forces.

I haven't posted to this blog since last February--just too much to do lately. My Google Reader links blog is updated numerous times daily. The five most recent posts in my links blog appear in the left hand column of this page.

Google marches on. I am sure that I am late to the party, but I think that enabling Google Docs & Spreadsheets to be used as a blogging editor is very, very cool. This post is the first test of that capability.

OK, I've tried at least 4 times to input my blogger beta settings in order to post to my blog --no joy.


OK, I've tried another 3-4 times with the same result. At least I learned about advances in bulking up mice--and perhaps mankind to follow soon .

Finally, success. I signed out on my primary machine and signed into Google Docs on my test machine using IE 7. The blogger beta settings are saved, and I'm in business.

Apparently, all I need to do is copy my set of labels for my posts into Google Docs, and I won't need to use the old blogger editor any longer.