Unfortunately, after all these days I have returned to find that blogger is lacking in features. On the other hand, wordpress.com has launched recently and that is looking pretty cool. So, I’m moving to samgrover.wordpress.com. Maybe I’ll be back or move somewhere else another day, leaving trails in cyberspace as time goes on.

Just moved here from samgrover.blogspot.com. Time to start afresh. Technorati Profile

I started this blog a while back and then stopped posting about fifteen months ago. Now I’m reviving it and will post stuff here occasionally. The feed is available through the new standard feed icon shown in the sidebar.

Exactly what the world needs, another WMD. How fast can you say dual use?

Congratulations to everyone involved in the project and thanks for a great web resource.

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Google Doodles and holiday logos are the transformed Google logo to represent a special day or event. Currently they are running doodles showing the 2004 Summer Olympics. I recently noticed that they now have a mini version of the current doodle on the search results page too. That’s great because I use the search box on Firefox or Safari for my searches and was missing out on the doodles.

Japan’s ISAS has successfully deployed (1, 2) two solar sails for a first in space endeavors. Congratulations to all involved!

“Earth from Above” is a great collection of aerial photos by Yann Bertrand taken all over the world. Some are just spectacular.

I like animation. Sometime ago I came across the XIAOXIAO MOVIE website. It features many stick figure animations involving kung-fu. They are awesome. Today there is a post on BoingBoing involving stick figures. Oh, and also see this stick figure recreation of the Weapon of Choice video by Fatboy Slim. Enjoy!

According to this post:

• Technorati is tracking 3 million blogs, including this one.

• A new blog is created every 5.8 seconds.

• 275,000 individual posts everyday. This is one of them.

• People are moving away from the TV to the computer. I know, I am.

I think this is probably going to continue well into the next year. Even more if Yahoo! and MSN provide blogging services and Google integrates its services.