One criticism I have of Google, and it’s pretty severe, is that they have made a mess of authentication. Gmail, Google Accounts, and Gwhatever each with their own userid password combinations has one more than one occasion wasted a ton on my time. Throw in their acquisition of BLOGGER and it’s a total mess. It feels like it’s checking old cookies. Sure I can nuke ALL cookies and muddle around until I get it working, BUT that means I lose all the preferences and stuff set up for other sites that have done nothing wrong. If there is one thing that keeps me from imbibing in the google kool aid is their continued mucking up of something as simple as sign on. They also have taught me with their mucking up of the Google Desktop Search tool that the entire web20 paradigm is the suspect because you’ve lost control of what’s running and what it does. Although the recent acquisition of MusicMatch by Yahoo is that buying software, oh excuse me “licensing” (what “barbara streisand” is that), is no guarantee of software stability. It just demos that you can run a stable production environment on a WINDOZE and WEB20 as an OS ain’t much better. To me it proves the worth of Open Source. And, Linux. At least your sunken monetary cost is zero and you have a lot less to complain about.
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Reinke Faces Life 