Mailund on the Internet

There’s a very interesting post on Google’s blog: The Future of Mobile.

Where is the mobile phone heading? How will it change the future?

Google’s at it again.  A new and improved Google Maps for the mobile phone.  I can see how this can be useful when travelling.

Now, my phone doesn’t have GPS or any other way of tracking its location, but I wonder if the Maps keep track of where you are.  Does anyone know?

I was just told about this post.  Apparently, Google is developing its own browser.

It is described in this cartoon that features people I know here from Google in Aarhus such as Lars Bak and Kasper Verdich.

I didn’t know what they were working on.  A lot of them were working on virtual machines for mobile phones and such before going Google, so I thought it was something like, but apparently not.

It’s still virtual machines, though, from what I get from the cartoon.

A few days ago I was too tired to work in the evening, so I decided to upgrade my laptop to Hardy Heron while watching a movie.  It went surprisingly well, compared to last time where the upgrade broke a lot of my applications (but my last upgrade was to a beta release of Gutsy Gibbon and this time I didn’t want to upgrade to a beta).

So far, I am happy with the update.  I have had some problems with spam-filtering but as far as I can see I have solved that problem just by changing from bogofiltering to spamassasin, so no worries there.

I had hoped I would be able to synchronise Evolution with Google Calendar, and for a minute I could (although repeated tasks didn’t seem to work).  Trying to include a second calendar didn’t work and instead seemed to break the first calendar as well, so now I have no synchronisation at all.

It is a feature I would really love to have, so I’ll try to fix it, but if anyone has had similar problems (broken sync or problems with recurring events) and solved them, please let me know.

I am very happy with Firefox 3 as well.  It is less memory hungry and the URL bar is awesome!

Google Health is up and running. See a review here.

My first thought was: “who would use such a service?”

I don’t have much of a “medical history” to keep track of.  I’m not eating any regular medicine and never had, and in any case it is not something I want to try to keep track of myself.

I trust my physician and would want him to figure out what medicine I need, if any.  I want him to keep track of my medical history.  He is the expert, that is why I go to him.  I don’t want to second guess experts in a field where I have very little knowledge.

So really, what’s the point in using Google Health?