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So this is ridiculous. I’ve been reading a lot about Google’s new toolbar (featuring AutoLink) and the new changes in doing look ups. It pisses me off that hundreds of bloggers (The End of Google?) regurgitate what they’ve read without any investigation. I love how some even say “I haven’t used it because I use Firefox, but it’s so evil” - how can you criticize something you haven’t even looked at!?!

Google does not autochange your content. It is an opt-in feature. A user must actually click a button to “auto-link” recognized content (addresses, ISBNs, etc.). It then notifies the user of the changes by highlighting the newly created links on the page. Next, a user can click on the button again to re-highlight or select to remove AutoLinks.

There is no behind-the-scenes auto-changing of web content. It is basically what any other plugin for a browser does! It’s the same crap people were giving Google for the G-Mail links claiming that they were reading everyone’s email to generate their ads. So please people, stop bitching about new technologies just because you think it makes you look cool and geeked out for doing so.

I received an email last night from the security team at UW informing me that one of my servers had been compromised and that they would be blocking the traffic and that I should rebuild it ASAP. It freaking takes an entire day to backup all the data, reformat the system, install all the patches, send the kerberos ticket to UW, reinstall all the ‘other’ software and services, etc etc..

And all because of what? Some stupid person has nothing better to do then sit in their room and write worms. It just pisses me off - like I had nothing better to do today than rebuild a server. And then I get asked to write a procedural manual on how to fix something like that, so that when I leave “someone” can do that — as well as how to do everything else I do. Right. I’ll try to fit that into my 19.5 hours.