Trey’s Blog

Spend a little time on Google.com and it is hard not to notice they seem to have a product for everything. Of their vast product line, I’m utilizing these on a regular basis:

• GMail - Free Email
• Google Calendar - Free Calendar
• Google Reader - RSS Reader
• Google Analytics - Web statistics
• Google Products - formerly Froogle
• Google Documents - Online Office/Productivity Tools
• Google Maps - user friendly mapping site
• [updated] YouTube - Online video sharing
• [updated] Picasa Web - Online photo sharing

I’m not even scratching the surface on the great tools this company is offering. For anyone looking to get their feet wet in the World Wide Web, this is a good place to start.

[update] I’d like to thank Imelda for reminding me of the programs I missed.

I’m not certain how many cities actually have these Red-light Cameras installed, but they are designed to photograph anyone who enters the intersection after the traffic light turns red.  Believe it or not, these have been around for more than 40 years.  My thought is this:  How many resources are involved in removing footage of emergency vehicles (Police, Fire, Volunteer Fire, EMS, etc) as they are probably captured several times a day with this system?  Is there someone employed by the city to check each photo?  Are these emergency vehicles emitting some signal that tells the cameras to ignore them as they blast through the intersections?  What do you think?

Have you ever noticed that when you drive with the windows down in your car, you get a tunnel effect of wind and noise?  I wonder how much this constant current of wind is damaging our hearing.  This is not to mention the ‘wind buffeting’ you get when the windows are opened just right and you get that louder vibrating woofer-like noise.  So up with the windows and save your hearing because common sense tells me those frequencies won’t last long against those cool breezes.

Yesterday morning I woke up from a dream, but of course I can’t remember it now. What crossed my mind was how we dream. I’ve read that we do most of our dreaming in REM sleep, but I haven’t heard at what rate. Do we really dream in real time or do we dream at a much faster rate since our bodies aren’t fatigued by all of the action? It sures feels like I’m cramming a lot of dreaming into such a small portion of my sleep state. Anyone have thoughts or links to studies on this matter?