Some people fly across the ocean. But sometimes, so do cows!

It’s not often you stumble across a web page explaining how to burn an Islamic flag, and then find your name listed at the footer of the page. This happened to me this evening …

http://beirutspring.com/blog/2014/08/30/how-to-burn-islamic-flags-without-upsetting-muslims/

Go home Google, you are drunk. I viewed the page https://www.google.com/work/search/products/gss.html and got the German language. I couldn’t read some of it, so I changed to a UK based IP and the page wouldn’t load. So I tried a USA based IP and I got the following.

Basing languages off of geolocation is mind numbingly stupid. Don’t do it.

Update: I just noticed there is a select box at the bottom of the page which lets you force the language selection to whatever you desire.

One day the streets and dry and bare. Next day …

So it turns out that the Dear Leader Kim Jong Un uses exactly the same model of roller ball mouse as I do.

In Canada, we must be polite.

Egads, this is what happens in Australian mode!

EDIT: The kind folks over at IFTTT fixed it for me 🙂

The folks over at IFTTT.com have a bug. I can no longer use my domain with it since I changed to hellyer.kiwi 🙁 Hopefully they’ll get it fixed soon 🙂

Sometimes Google outdoes itself with it’s shear awesomeness. I didn’t even need to click a link to get my answer.

I took these at a small lake a few kilometers from my apartment this evening. Not enough to skate on, but it looks promising if we get a few more frosty evenings.