For some reason, Google thinks the best way to get to Australia is to walk to Seattle, and put your Kayak in the water at Gas Works park. Could it be because the google maps team is here in Seattle?

Out of nearly 700 directions, this one is the killer:

470. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
Entering Australia (New South Wales)

Re-faving .david.

Google has some nice guidelines on email deliverability. Making sure you have an SPF record to validate your domain is important.

We're even getting REPLIES from emails getting filed as spam (one problem is our startpad.org domain is not where we read our mail FROM - it's just forwarding email to another email address). This means that we do not build up a contact list or history of senders to whom we send mail - so GMail has very little to go on in applying it's spam filtering.

I'd really rather these forwarding accounts do NO spam filtering, and forward everything on to be filtered in the final destination account.

Quoted: We've received inquiries from bulk senders who'd like more information on best practices to ensure that their mail is delivered to Gmail users. The way Gmail classifies spam depend

Google's page that will fetch a mobile/screen reader compatible version of any URL you enter.

I was also going to comment on the irony of a Google reputation survey, the same morning that Google Docs has been down for about 1 hour! People are twittering about it at the rate of about 2 tweets per minute:

http://summize.com/search?q=google+docs+down

But now back up after being down for 1 hour.

Google docs is down! This really sucks. I was happily editing in offline mode (using Gears), but didn't notice that the service was down until I tried to create a NEW document (which you can only do online!).

I turned off online access, and POOF, I can't see anything but the service unavailable page. AND, there is no way to GO BACK to editing offline again.

I just hope when it comes back, that I haven't lost my offline updates to docs I was working on.

Foxmarks is getting 100,000 weekly downloads, and claim 2M downloads on the day of the FF3 launch.

Thread local variables in python:

import threading

mydata = threading.local()
mydata.x = 1

...not sure if this works in AppEngine yet.

...seems to work fine (in limited test).

Google has another product that displays demographics of web sites - specifically tailored for media buyers (advertisers).

Quoted: While Google Trends for Websites, announced last week, is designed for all users, Google Ad Planner is designed with media planners in mind. Using Google Ad Planner, you can quickly create media plans and export to a .csv file, which can be opened in most spreadsheet applications.