For those of you who are not into geek lingo, the phrase “Googleing oneself” basically means typing in your name (first and last) into Google in order to see what appears.

This is a good exercise, as many employers, potential clients and friends will do a quick Google search on you in order to see what appears.

Example: When I Google Darnell Clayton, a bunch of “relevent” links appear, most of which deal with me. Unfortunately, there are a few random ones that appear–ironically dealing with other people named Darnell Clayton.

Here are just a few “unrelated Darnell Clayton’s” that appear when I Google my own name.

• Darnell Clayton on LinkedIn: This Darnell Clayton is located in Georgia (the US state, not the country) and is currently a Senior Information Architect.
• The Polish Darnell Clayton on Facebook: I think this page is the polish version of Facebook (since “pl” represents Poland online).
• The Male supermodel Darnell Clayton: This guy apparently was reviewed by a blogger, and I think this is also his Facebook profile too.

None of these guys are me, and if you were having a hard time telling the difference, here are a few clues for you:

• I no longer have a LinkedIn profile (note: I previously had one, but found other social networks to be better).
• I don’t speak Polish–although I am trying to learn Hebrew.
• My body isn’t sexy enough to be a male model–even with the six pack (note: not that I would ever consider becoming one anyways)

Ironically, one of the reasons I bought DarnellClayton.com was to help avoid this confusion (at least online) of who the real me was all about.

I would recommend other people doing the same thing, as the last thing you need is a future employer/client mistaking you for a high tech geek who poses in fashion magazines during “the night shift.”

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I guess now I am receiving a 404 error when visiting my domain. Oh well…at least Google responded.

~Darnell

Update: And we’re back up!

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It looks as if Google has launched a new version of Google Earth! Check out the video below.

(Google LatLong) What good would fancy new navigation controls be if there wasn’t something new to look at? While we’re regularly adding new user-created SketchUp buildings submitted through 3D Warehouse, we decided to take things up a notch for this release by including photo-realistic models for dozens of new cities. Take a spin around Tokyo, Munich, or Boston to get a taste. We’ve also significantly enhanced our approach to rendering 3D data to greatly improve performance and realism.

I’ll have to play around with this later on (as I have too many things to do right now, blog wise).

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It’s been on the news, and the site ThinkgOS has more info about it. Basically its a inexpensive computer running linux with heavy Google influence on it.

Wal*mart has them for sale at around $200. Here is a video via YouTube for the curious.

(Hat Tip: The King Kong Blog)

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It looks like Google has partnered with the most unbiased objective news organization on planet Earth after CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and certain communist propaganda.

Well, at least you can’t say Google is run by Zionists.

(TechCrunch) Al Jazeera signed a commercial agreement with Google last week to share advertising revenue on their YouTube channel. The channel originally launched in April 2007.

This comes even as U.S. cable operators continue to shun the 24 hour news service – only Toledo, Ohio based Buckeye CableSystem and the municipal cable suppler in Burlington, Vermont offer the channel to viewers.

You can check out the new channel over here, although it seems to be less “Jews and Americans are evil” than their Arabic station as well as the BBC.

Personal Thoughts: Highlighting bias in the open (and yes, Al Jazeera, is very biased) will help to counter it in the long run as people can see for themselves why no one takes Al Jazeera’s “objective reports” seriously.

Not to mention it might give us an insight into the mind of those who hate the west. Better we know what they are saying in the open than being unsure what they whisper in the dark.

Update: Fixed spelling mistake.

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Okay, I previously wrote about the “404 WWW” error in blogger here and here, but it looks as if the Blogger team has created an “automatic redirect” which means these hacks are may be obsolete.

I’m testing this out on my personal blog here first, and if successful I’ll do a write up for everyone else.

Warning: This site may get buggy real quick!

Update: Complete horror! I have sent in a trouble ticket to Google about this. So far it works for new custom domain bloggers, but leaves those who have previously registered as…well…screwed.

Sigh…I guess I expect too much from Google.

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