My Life in the Tech World

Someday... I want a navigation system that listens to me while I'm driving. One that can listen in on my cell phone or in car conversation and when someone mentions an address or phone number it queues it up ready to be used in some hands free friendly way. One were someone can text me an address and then I can tell the car to go there. I want a navigation system that learns about my travel patterns. Forgetting privacy for a bit, I want a navigation system to remember where I go everyday. Once it knows where I usually go it can guess where I'm about to go. It can scan ahead for traffic and warn me before I hit it. It can tell me about alternate routes. It can make suggestions for changes in my travel routine to save gas or time. I want a navigation system that's social. I want to be able share what I'm doing on the road with family and friends. I want it to tell me what music are other people listening to on this road. I want it to tell me what restaurants people

My Lexus just turned two years old. We've had a good two years together. Even though I can't use the navigation system I've always taken comfort in the fact that the rest of the car is pretty much perfect. However that all changed a month ago when we went to the car wash. I was sitting on my usual spot watching the cars go through the giant blow dryer. I saw my black Lexus come out of the big car washing machine. One of the car wash boss guys was looking at my car. He pointed to one of other workers, then to my car, then made a motion indicating that the car needed a redo. So my car went through the wash again. The second time through I looked closer at my car and noticed that some of the spots on the car didn't come off. Oh the horror. A Spot Where the Lexus Paint is Etched At home I got out the polish and  worked on the spots. I got most off. But a few remained. Check out one them in the photo. On a side note, it's surprisingly hard to get a good picture

I doubt you could have missed the Google search interface change today. I like the feel of it and appreciate that they are really using my broadband connection. Hooray! I wonder if Comcast is cheering about the additional bandwidth usage? The New York Times said "it's as if [Google] is reading your mind." I don't agree with that. To me it's more like Google is telling me what other people are thinking. Google says the new interface is speeding up your search activity. Maybe. Google is definitely speeding up the rate at which they can show me ads. That's probably the bigger deal for the company. As a shareholder I hope other investors think the same way. Even though I like it and despite all the hoopla, it's an incremental improvement versus the automatic query form filling they were doing yesterday. I'm disappointed because the change is so small. What I would have liked to see is Google going further and predicting what my next search queries wi