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May 26, 2007

We have enough important things to discuss in the world and certainly trying to disprove evolution shouldn’t be one of them. According to this article three of ten republican presidential candidates don’t believe in evolution and it is obvious our president doesn’t either.

 

This has to be some kind of joke. It is apparent these people know nothing of science or have been sheltered to the point where they have never stepped into a museum.

 

To make matters worse, a new museum just opened in Kentucky which will show dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark and will explain the Grand Canyon was not created through millions of years of erosion but rather 6,000.

 

Topping it off, the museum cost 27 million brainwashing dollars to construct.

 

At the least the name of the building is “Creation Museum” which should ward off those people who are really looking for a museum based on science.

 

Then again, I may want to take a flight down to the Creation Museum myself to see just how big Noah’s Ark was. I don’t even think we have any ships big enough today to hold every species of dinosaur.

 

The whole issue of creation versus evolution is scary because it shows the ultra-religious (regardless of religion) have decided that logic can be disregarded at will. Once you get used to ignoring logic, reason and especially facts, society should be questioning your competency.

May 26, 2007

I am hoping this post will enable Technorati to finally start seeing my blog again. Here are the details. Fingers crossed.

 

May 26, 2007

It has been months since Google somehow started to omit TMCnet blogs from their BlogSearch service. Since the service is so popular we wanted to find out we were delisted and se if there was a technical problem.

 

After months of writing to Google to ask what the problem was, Tom Keating wrote a blog entry titled Google Blog Search Sucks where he mentioned he loves Google but the BlogSearch service leaves much to be desired. His concerns centered around MFA (made for Adsense) sites being listed and other non-blog sites such as EE Times and even a Wiki.

 

Thankfully the blog entry caught the attention of Google and an engineer responded a few days later to tell us there was a bug in their system and they have fixed the bug and TMCnet blogs are now listed.

 

Interestingly, my blog hasn’t been showing up on Technorati for about a year and we don’t know the reason. We have sent many e-mails to Technorati and there seems to be no way to solve the problem.

 

Similarly we have been trying to get TMCnet news added to Yahoo News and normal channels haven’t worked.

 

A very important point Tom makes is that the dotcoms have horrendous customer service. We have sent e-mails to Yahoo! for three years asking how we can get included in their news service and there has been no response.

 

At least in Technorati’s case I sent a letter to the president and I received a response. The company never solved the problem but at least I got something in my inbox that shows there is a human at the other end.

 

Sure algorithms are fine but in the end, you need to respond to your customers when your algorithms have problems. And for this I would like to thank Google for responding eventually to our request.

 

Here is Tom’s latest post on the matter titled: Google Blog Search Doesn't Suck?