13/07: Googling your way into trouble
While in San Francisco for the All-Star game, I had a chance to catch up with my dear friend Tom Merrit and sit in on his Podcast Show, Buzz Out Loud. Buzz is a daily show from CNet about technology, and despite being billed as being ‘indeterminate length’ it is almost always at least 30 minutes long, which matches perfectly to my morning runs. My ipod automatically syncs with the show’s podcast directory to pull down the latest podcast. Another great case of technology simplifying things!
Tom and I met in the halls of NPR while he was interning for NPR’s morning edition. Tom interviewed me for a story he was working on about marketing for Bob Edwards. Bob and I go way back, so he connected the two of us and we immediately hit it off.
It was pretty neat to watch Tom and his co-hosts run the Podcast, it actually reminded me of my college radio days, except with a lot more computers. If you listen to Podcast 514 you will actually hear my chuckle as Tom reported on how Google was part of a robbery in Colorado Springs.
It appears that the criminals broke into ‘Mr. Biggs Family Fun Center’ with the intent to rob a safe. After trying to cloud the cameras with WD-40 (which didn’t work so well) they moved onto the safe.
It appears that the safe was a bit harder than they realized. As any good information seeker would do when faced with a problem, the burglars turned to the nearest computer and entered “How to crack a safe” into Google.
Apparently the answers were good enough to get the job done, and the burglars ran off with enough money to buy 20 shares of Google ($12K).
It was pretty neat to watch Tom and his co-hosts run the Podcast, it actually reminded me of my college radio days, except with a lot more computers. If you listen to Podcast 514 you will actually hear my chuckle as Tom reported on how Google was part of a robbery in Colorado Springs.
It appears that the safe was a bit harder than they realized. As any good information seeker would do when faced with a problem, the burglars turned to the nearest computer and entered “How to crack a safe” into Google.
Apparently the answers were good enough to get the job done, and the burglars ran off with enough money to buy 20 shares of Google ($12K).
