"Google believes that users should have a choice in what applications they use for editing text files. Built to support industry standards, Google Text enables Google users to press letters on their keyboard, and those letters will then appear in a Google Text document. Users can string these letters together to form whole words, even complete sentences. Google says that users will be able to create entire paragraphs of words and sentences, and, for the advanced computer users, complete documents.

Google Text uses industry standard ASCII text and provides innovative features such as 'cut and paste' and the 'deleting' of mistyped characters.

Google Text currently only has client support for Windows, but Google reportedly said that a web based client is in the works. The web client will provide support for Apple OS X and Unix platforms, but the web client will only support a limited subset of the characters that users can type in the windows based client. It has been reported that the web client will support the letters 'a', 'f', and 't', and the numbers '2' and '7'. Google says they are not planning any other characters at this point, but reminded that Google Text is in beta.

Yahoo has stated that their competing product "Yahoo Pad" is set to be released in a few months...

warning: incoherent and mind numbingly boring technology rant follows:

The comment form here at bitterpill.org is set up to send me an email when, in the rare occurrence, someone posts a comment. However, the email functionality has been broken for some time. Why? To be honest, I have been too lazy to figure it out, and frankly, this wasn't a bug high on my list of bugs to fix. Today I gathered up the gumption to sort it out. It turns out that the least likely of culprits was to blame. I imagine many a reader now pondering, "You mean it wasn't your crappie code or your even crappier system configuration that was causing your mail problems?" On most days this thought would be right on the money, but today my dear friends my incompetence was not to blame. It turns out it was was those Stanford brianiacs at google.

Google, in their infinite wisdom, decided to bundle the java.mail API in their google API jar, and in the process broke my mailing code. The java.mail API doesn't take too kindly to having multiple instances of its self in the class path, it's selfish that way. It took me forever to figure out why it was failing, and only after Nick pushed me in the right direction by convincing me to look through all the java APIs in the bitter pill webapp to see if some dope had bundled the mail APIs in their code. Google was the culprit, those bastards!

For posterity, a quick glance at some saving grace bash scripting:

for file in `ls`; do
    echo $file; jar -tf $file | grep mail;
done


After years of using google I have never seen an error page (at least one that I can recollect). Impressive to say the least. That is until today. I guess even the people at google are human, at least part human, kinda like the borg.

on a side note: when doing screen grabs in OS X with dual monitors, it saves the screens as a two page pdf. Me gusta mucho.

When did I start using the term nifty. nifty? Do I have some weird affinity towards Wally Cleaver, or maybe a strange fetish?

I did a search of this site to see how many instances of the phrase nifty I could find, but the google API is done busted, and after a bit of research it appears that the spelling suggestion portion of the API fails when looking up certain words, 'nifty' being one of those words. Is google trying to protect me from myself? Possibly.

bitter pill DOT® org, a holy owned subsidiary of Yummy Foods Inc., has released its latest revision in the market of internet search* tools. After years of success in the field of inter-media exchange and deliberate publishing software research and development, bpDo® is proud to include this latest release of "internet search" in its vast array of ineffectual software tools and services.

Leveraging the power of Google's search algorithms and the Google API, bitter pill DOT® org has taken an effective and robust search platform** and leveraged it to produce a fairly mediocre search engine for bpDo®.

Try the bitter pill search today, absolutly free*** (free as in Thunderbird Wine).

* Internet search does not guarantee the ability to search the internet. It implies a search, possibly involving a computer, with the word internet preceding it. bitter pill DOT® org makes no guarantee of search results, nor does it guarantee the ability to search anything at all, ever.

** Platform being the current nomenclature for software stuffs that work over the "internet". We also would of accepted 'web services', or 'that place where I click and find porn'

*** bitter pill DOT® org search limited by Googl's API to 1000 queries a day. Results may vary.