Simon's Blog

Congratulations Russia !!~
Now we share the sight of thick ungrown men crying as they realise they are defeated.
I am not intentionally against my own country, but Russia played so much better this game.
May russia win the entire european championship.

Today is the last day of spring holiday. Horrible, but I had a really nice time and the weather was more than beautiful. There are a 1000 things I still want to do, but I ended up writing this useless blog.

I want to give my personal comments on something that deeply annoyed me over the past years. With so many oncoming services on the internet people really make idiots out of themselves. Web services like Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Del.icio.us are examples of new hip style of the internet, with all fans dedicated to them. But there are always new who adapt that style without any ground and create disasters that will ruin the web for eternity. Today I want to kick against the way people come up with their names of their webservice.

When Wikipedia had already conquered the whole world, Google was trying to make a rip-off and start a war against Wikipedia by allowing article authors to get paid with their writing. That web service was entitled 'Knol', which hurted my ears when I first heard it.

Note:
"Knol" in dutch means either a slow dumb horse or a turnip.

It is supposed to represent something like "Knol - Knowledge", where the word falls in range of "Troll" and "Gnoll".

"Android" is the name of the iPhone's biggest concurrent, again with greetings from Google. I don't know how they came up with that name, but I think it's meaning is obvious. Two of the Google programmers were talking about their favorite Star Wars episode and came up with a device that can transform into a real spaceship and beat the good work of Apple in one hit.

No offense against Google, but also the third is dedicated to them. My computer blocks that page for the reason of being "Tasteless". I never understood why, but I think my computer is not that stupid. Who would name his service "Orkut" ? It is a name with some turkish feeling to it, but I wonder of it's origin. The whole situation is worsening everyday.

And the worst of them all, 'WiiGadget', which is my own school project !? Who the heck came up with that stupid name.

.. people just need to have their face beaten into a wall.

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