I keep having this problem where I want to use somebody's computer to check my gmail, but I know that if I go to mail.google.com, I will see their email. I was thinking about this last night, and I came up with two solutions. The first was to bookmark the gmail logout link into their browser or maybe del.icio.us so that I could visit it without having to go to their gmail, and the second solution was to post that link here.

So, if you know that you want to log out your friend from gmail without seeing their inbox, all you have to do is click here.

I've been working on the site a fair amount lately, and have added a couple of new features. The first one is a set of those ubiquitous bookmarking buttons for Technorati, del.icio.us, etc. that you should be seeing if you are reading this online. I've been trying to optimize this blog for a bit, and I figured I probably need these sooner or later.

The other thing I added today is the "Subscribe" block, which for the moment is listed on the left under the recent music. I did a little playing around in the heart of Drupal, and modified this block so that it has text links for RSS and for an email service I just discovered from Google.

There's this ongoing problem I've been having in that search engines do not have the ability to search the insides of password protected sites. It's a little frustrating from time to time because so many sites have gads of information that search engines just can't get to, which means that you have to rely on the site's search engine, which invariably does not work very well.

So, here's the concept. The search engine creates an opt-in program wherein websites (like banks for example) can give the engine a generic login and password, and then the search engine can get in, crawl the site, make an index, and then get out. Later, when you search for content, you can search for that information, if you desire, but to see it, you'll need to log in.

Similarly, if you are a person who uses the secure site, you can give the search engine the ability to log in as you, and then crawl the site for your information. Thus, if you gave the search engine the login to your bank, you could later search for all your transactions at Cha Cha's restaurant....or whatever. Actually, this might be a privacy concern...but it's a thought.

In case you haven't heard about this before, the Golden Ratio is the concept of how to define the most aesthetically pleasing ratio between two lengths, and can be found pretty much everywhere dating back all the way to the Egyptian Pyramids of Giza. Examples abound in the world around us. Books, tables, laptops, screen sizes. Essentially anything that looks like a well-proportioned rectangle probably fits pretty closely into the Golden Ratio.

You can kind of see what I mean by looking at the picture of the Parthenon at right that I found on Wikipedia. The idea is this: The length of the smaller of two distances should be related in the same way to the longer of two distances as the longer of two distances is related to the sum of the shorter plus the longer distance.

If that's too confusing, perhaps this will help:

Still confused? How about this: The Golden Ratio is 1.61803399.

I went online a few days ago to figure out how to dimension an applet that I was making, and discovered yet another cool Google tool. Googling for "400 * golden ratio" yields the search result of 647. Very cool.