Science for SEO: Bill Gates

October 31, 2008

TGIF - woooo!

Welcome back to Friday, I hope that you're all looking forward to either a fun packed weekend or a relaxed one chilling on the sofa. I hope none of you are moving house like I was last week - not fun.

Anyway without much ado, here are the gems for today:

A project manager, hardware engineer and software engineer were in a car heading down a hill when the brakes failed. The driver managed to get it stopped by using the gears and a convenient dirt track.

All three jumped out and after peering under the car the hardware engineer said, "I see what the problem is and with this handy roll of duct tape I think I can fix it good enough to get us to the next town". The project manager quickly interrupted, "No, no, no. Before we do anything we need to decide on a vision for our future, figure out a plan and assign individual deliverables". At which point the software engineer said, "You know what, I think we should push the car back up to the top of the hill and see if it happens again".

“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers” (Lewis Thomas)

"Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time." (2004)

...aw.....Bill....

A small surpise - I'm adding a TGIF cheesy tune too - can you guess what it is? Enjoy :)

"..the only thing missing is the sea...but don't worry, you can-sun-tan..."

October 24, 2008

bgC3

Despite the weekly "aw...Bill" bit in the TGIF posts, I like Bill. I think he's a cool guy who despite saying some silly things (I have too, but I'm not rich and famous so not a lot of people care), has been visionary. Lets not forget the work of "The Bill and Melissa Gates foundation" either.

Ok, his company, Microsoft, has ripped me off several times with rubbish OS, and expensive and unnecessary Office products (use OpenOffice), but I have to say that without Microsoft I may not have found so much of the free and amazing software I use now!

Anyway, that aside, he's creating a new company called bgC3 (Bill Gates Catalyst and 3 is his 3rd project). It's supposed to be a think tank. He is still Microsoft's chairman and is still involved there but has actually "left". This is him branching out and doing his own thing again. It's obviously all computer science and technology oriented research that he has in mind. The idea is that he'll bring together clever people to work on cutting-edge ideas.

This is what labs around the world do, get clever people to work on innovative and cutting-edge ideas and technology. The problem in academia is funding. This is something that bgC3 won't be struggling with I suspect.

Check out Tech Flash more a lot more information.