jack

Ooh, hey, once google maps has found a route it lets you drag it to change it, if you want to go another way. Has it always done that? That's great for finding distances the way you want to go, not the default best, or correcting aberrations. (OK, or maybe another site does it better? But gmaps is just always there and easy.)

Experimenting with Picassa... God, that is in fact creepy. It has the same cheery google interface as google, but with google I like the simplicity. Somehow, raring ahead and searching most of my hard drive, however non-intrusively, isn't what I like. I want to say "do this" and it does this, etc.

And please *don't* centralise any data on google's servers. That's fine if there's a reason for it, eg. with email, and it's probably not *actually* a problem with files on my hard drive, and I don't go to lengths to secure it, but it's actually creepy that my stuff might get easily (if with warning) uploaded to a server and remembered, over encryption I don't control.