TRAVELLING: St.Barths (08)

Our ten best things about St.Barths

1. The views and colors around every turn


2. The beautiful stay at La Banane


3. The great shopping time


4. The great dinners   (K'Fé Massai, Pipiri, Hideaway, Wall House)


5. The beaches, specially Le Gouverneur and Saline, specially in the morning


6. The feeling of being "out-of-the-world" for a while (no news, no crime)


7. Drinking Ti Punch and Planteurs every time that is possible :-)


8. The people of St.Barths


9. Leaving St.Maarten behind (if you like St.Maarten, you won't like St.Barths)


10. Smoking some great cigars 3 times a week after the dinner (eg.: Davidoff Grand Cru No.4)

BLOG: Silktide & SiteScore

Do you know Silktide (strange name) and its SiteScore?

SiteScore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is.

The entire testing process is handled by advanced computer software, which means a test is free and only takes a few seconds. SiteScore also gathers user feedback on all the websites we rate, to help judge how appealing a design is.[...]

SiteScore rates all websites on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest).

Some interesting inputs. For example, I realized that all my pages were found in violation of the the current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This means that my blog/website is unlawful in Britain for example... I must say I haven't know these ones and I will have a look at these guidelines. Sorry for that, I hope I haven't blocked somebody....

Sooo, what are the results for didierbeck.com?





Not bad, specially if I could correct the part "Accessibility" ;-)

PS: I think I tested this tool based on a post of Dragos I didn't found anymore, sorry...

BUSINESS: stupid clients?

[via vowe]

You had a tough day because of one of your client? Have a look here, it is excellent and good for your spirits. Some abstracts:

Hey - in the screenshot of the HTML layout you've sent me none of the links is working. Can you fix this?

I'd like a gradient from blue to red -- but get rid of that purple in the middle.

The invoice says the software is supplied on a 200 foot tape, so we've reserved a hangar to store it.

I need this section of the site to be completely locked down with passwords on a per-user basis. Don't make it so that people can't get in if they can't remember the password though.

We couldn't make a screenshot from your website, would you please fix that...

We want a Flash website...but we don't want a lot of animation or sound because it's too destracting...and it needs to be easy to update so that our secretaries can make changes.

NEWS: Airbus A380

[via Thomas & Sylvain, directly from Toulouse]

A great picture of Sylvain from the Airbus A380, taken from his ... garten during the first flight of this incredible machine. The engineers surely used Catia, you know, this "piece of software which is changing the industry".



The plane seems to be very quiet, also in comparison to other smaller planes.

No link to the Airbus' website. Each time, I tried to load the A380's page, it crashed Firefox...

NEWS: NYTimes.com traffic

[via PointBlog, in French]

NYTimes.com published some information about its website traffic. Impressive, wow!

March 2005, overall website: 555 million pageviews, 15 million unique visitors

March 2005, RSS feeds: 5.9 million pageviews (+342% year over year)

NEWS: how to destroy the earth :-)

[via padawan]

Funny, extensive, (partly) true, and informative :-)

Preamble

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I (Sam Hughes) can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other planets; indeed, other star systems. If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.

This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.

[source: Sam's archive]

MUSIC: On heavy rotation

On *very heavy* rotation this last time: the last CD of Moby - Hotel. Btw, have a look at the Moby's website, really great, and a cool design. He opened a journal (a kind of "semi-blog-form", i.e. without comments/permalink), which has attracted my attention during the last 30 minutes, at least... Moby is also shooting a lot, and he is publishing lots of pictures he took himself. Captivating, too.

An extract of his Journal, explaining the meaning of the first hit of Hotel - Lift me up:

'lift me up'...this is a complicated one...'lift me up' is about the human propensity towards turning off our higher, critical, rational cognitive functions and willfully and enthusiastically degenerating to an atavistic tribal state wherein we don't judge things from an empirical, rational perspective, but rather from a limbic, feral, tribal perspective.
and it's also about how religious leaders and political leaders(and, well, entertainers, too...but hopefully in a relatively benign way...)play upon peoples willingness to lose themselves in said atavistic, tribal, collective, irrational behaviour.(most descriptive line: 'it's sweeter than doubt', regarding the certainy that comes with 'true belief'...).

I have seen Moby for some days at a French TV show called Taratata (in French), a very good exclusively-live-music program, with an excellent sound and mix quality. Moby sang (and played bass guitar on) two tracks: Lift me up from Hotel and Natural blues from the last one. Impressive, wow!



Moby was also interviewed during the show and I must say that he seems to be a very nice person: a lot of (black/British) humor, very smart, humble, and *very* engaged politically (he is fighting against Bush and his administration since years).

Highly recommended artist and CD!!

BUSINESS: strategy - definition vs. implementation

Some very inspiring thoughts in this article of Wharton from March 2005 - Got a Good Strategy? Now Try to Implement It:

It is about the fact that it is much more difficult to implement a strategy than to define it. Soooo true :-)

Also some good inputs concerning the danger of trying to force and speed-up too much changes within an organization, i.e. each system can be change but there is a sort of "maximum-speed" you have to find out for the change management process. If you exceed this speed-limit, you can really break the system completely down. In other words: you have to learn to be ... patient! Wow, have I really said that?

Finally, some great reasons why it is *essential* for the Executives to integrate themselves in the implementation process, so that there is no cut between the strategic definition and its realization. A sort of "Strategic Management by Examples". I really like this idea.

Only recently have people begun to realize that effective execution is a competitive business advantage. Companies are now seeing that if they execute better, they perform better. If they integrate long-term and short-term objectives, if they consider incentives, controls and feedback, they execute better. And if one company has that and the other doesn't, the competitive advantage is clear.

[...] Execution takes longer than people expect. Political and organizational problems typically surface. So you develop a strategy, but you have to go throughout the organization and through dozens of planners to make sure it is carried out. It takes longer. Once execution starts, it could be one or two years, or even require a three-to-five year time frame.

There is still the perception that smart people plan and grunts execute. The short answer is that those who have power or influence have to embrace, believe in and foster execution. Some people think it is a lower-level responsibility - that's the older perception of execution - but this simply isn't true.

When companies separate the planning and doing - that's wrong. Executive strategy requires ownership at all levels, from corporate level managers on down. Strategic success really demands a simultaneous view of planning and doing. The greater the overlap of doers and planners, the greater probability of success.

Execution takes longer. Execution is a process, and not an action or a step. And execution involves more people than strategy formation.

TRAVELLING: St.Barths (07)

Advices - Lessons Learnt

• Three things are cheap in St.Barths, and just these ones: alcohol, cigars / cigarettes and gas ;-)


• You need a car. Don't ask if you can walk or take a bicycle...You need a car and a 4W car! The rest is bullshit.


• French and English are spoken everywhere.


• Euro and $ and accepted everywhere. No problem with credit cards.


• Voltage is 220V, 60Hz. French plug converters are required.


• Cell phone: nothing special if you have an international subscription.


• DO NOT forget to bring something against mosquitos. There are really annoying...and quite strong in St.Barths (although all the hotels are treated two times a week against mosquitos).


• Time zone: as US East Coast, 5 to 6 hours difference with France


• Typical tropical region for the daylight: all the year between 06:30 and 18:30, so that the people are waking up early and going to bed quite early in the evening.


• Weather: also typical tropical weather. Some clouds in the morning, a little very pleasant wind, somtimes some suddend tropical downpours (short and normally duting the night), 28-30°C during the day, 22-24°C during the night, 25-27°C in the sea :-)

NEWS: Chinese anti-Japan protests

[via Joi Ito]

Till today, I haven't really understood what is actually the issue between China and Japan. I honestly thought that our Chinese colleagues are a bit exaggerating and using the story with the teaching books as an excuse to push some nationalist requests. The reality seems to be, as usual, a little bit more complicated. Thanks to Joi, my "Japanese representative", to clarify it in this very moderated, historical and clever way!

One of the biggest problems is that most Japanese don't understand the issues. Another point is that most Japanese are not great supporters of the military. When I think about the military in Japan, I don't think dirty nationalist thoughts. Rather, I think about May 15, 1932 when Prime Minister Inukai was assassinated by the military which ended party-based politics in Japan until after WWII. I think about the Japanese military taking over the government and sending Japan into one of the worst periods in its history. I think about the small children being sent off to war as Kamikaze or human torpedos and I think about the letters homes from them that are enshrined in Yasukuni Shrine. There are letters from terrified little boys writing about how scared they are about going to war. Most Japanese do not trust the military and most Japanese believe that the military run government of the 30's was an illegitimate government as a result of a coup. Many Japanese believe that the Japanese people were victims of the military.

Having said that, I do think that the text books and teaching in Japan underplays the actions of the military in China and I believe the Japanese text books are a real problem that should be addressed. I really think that the Japanese don't understand how victimized the Chinese and Koreans were and I believe this education needs to occur. I would point out that it is not just this aspect of Japanese textbooks that is broken. Japanese text don't use the word "revolution" or "civil war". It was the "Meiji Restoration", "The American fight for independence", the US Civil War is the "North South War" etc. There was a move to simplify Pi to just 3. In other words, the Japanese ministry of education needs an overhaul. Maybe they should use Wikipedia instead.

PRIVATE: first movie with our son :-)

The weather was sooo nice today that we decided to go to the cinema with our little son. It was the first movie at the cinema for him. We saw Pooh's Heffalump, great moment :-) Also because he really likes Winnie the Pooh!

TOOLS: Firefox v1.0.3

New version 1.0.3 of Firefox available.



What's new in this release?

• Fix to improve update process


• security fixes


• Javascript "lambda" replace exposes memory contents


• javascript: PLUGINSPAGE code execution


• Showing blocked javascript: popup uses wrong privilege context


• Cross-site scripting through global scope pollution


• Code execution through javascript: favicons


• Search plugin cross-site scripting


• Arbitrary code execution from Firefox sidebar panel II


• Missing Install object instance checks


• Privilege escalation via DOM property overrides

BUSINESS: Feed for thoughts

Seth Godin, again, again and again. Two interesting inputs for the week-end ;-)

About ethics

Pfizer, Sudafed and ethics.

But shame on [Pfizer] for believing that doing the right thing all along is the same as doing the right short-term thing for the shareholders. It's not the same. It's not the same ethically, and it's not the same in terms of long term profit or branding either.

About being on top

The race to the top.

So, I think I understand what happens when you win the race to the top. You end up with a healthy, motivated workforce that's focused on adding art and joy to your products. You end up with profits and market share and a community that's glad you're there.

What happens, though, when you win the race to the bottom?

TOOLS: FireTune 1.01

FireTune (freeware, Windows version) works really very well. Have a try!

FireTune for Mozilla Firefox v1.x was developed for an easy and fast optimization of your browsing experience with Firefox. Usually you have to optimize Firefox manually, which can be time consuming and difficult for the novice user. FireTune helps you here - it includes all the performance optimizations. The only thing you must do is: make your selection. It does the work for you.

NEWS: Mac OS X....

Dear Mac readers, I know you because you are still using Safari as a browser (~ 1.5% of the traffic). I apologize for this post but...I couldn't lie ;-)

Lot of buzz and emails concerning the coming new Mac OS X on 29th April. Also concerning the Dashboard. To my point of view, nothing new under the sun (sure, there are other interesting innovations!). Konfabulator does the same (excepted the cool waves effect) since months (Mac and PC). I'm using, as a registered user (yeay), Konfabulator on my laptop/workstation under WinXP since November 2004. Great tool for geek :-)

Dashboard of Mac OS X

My current desktop under XP, with Konfabulator

I must say I am *NOT* a fan of Mac at all, and this, since years. In the 80s, I was already using a Commodore 64, instead of an Apple II. Sorry for that:-)
Russell summarized my feelings very well (read his post completely to know what he is thinking about Mac!):

The Mac bothers me for all the same reasons it bothers others out there. It's a closed system, running on proprietary hardware which always seems to be doomed to be both more expensive, and half the speed of the PC world. That and having to learn another OS and it's foibles bugs me a bit. I've been using Windows for over a decade, so figuring out problems is second nature.

TRAVELLING: St.Barths (06)

Restaurants

Wow, wow, wow. Very exciting and good French, Creole, Italian and Chinese cuisine to be tested in St.Barths. The concentration of good restaurants is terrible for your weight.

One of the best things about St. Barts is the quality and variety of the food.

This is true not only in numerous local restaurants, but in many local homes and villas as well, due to the unusually wide range of foodstuffs available at local grocery stores, and due to the quality of local catering services.

Shopping for food in St. Barts can be a delightful social pastime in itself.

[via St-Barths.com]

We tested the following restaurants, see our appreciation:

TOOLS: Konfabulator v1.8.4

Pixoria released an update 1.8.4 of Konfabulator.

This update addresses the following issues:

Proxy and autoproxy connections

Problem where your current set of Widgets would not be remembered between launches.

Problem where the reminder window would return, particularly if you use your machine on multiple networks.

Full review here.

PICTURES: Canon EOS 20D

Digital SLR

So, after having played for a while with my first bridge (hp 945, 5.3MP, 8x optical zoom), I decided to enter a complete new world for me - the digital SLR (Single-Lens Reflex) photography.

Canon EOS 20D

I read a lot of different tests and I decided myseld for a Canon EOS 20D, which is recognized as one of the best camera in this semi-professional field, i.e. for the so-called "prosumers". You can find some tests here:

dpreview

The Luminous Landscape

Steve's DigiCams

Digital Camera Resource Page

imaging resource

Rob Galbraith

Bob Atkins

Functionalities Canon EOS 20D

Lightweight and durable magnesium alloy body

Canon EOS (EF/EF-S) lens mount, 1.6x focal magnifier

New 8.3 Megapixel, CMOS image sensor, low-noise / wide dynamic range

Recording choice of 6 levels of JPEG, CR2 RAW, or RAW plus JPEG (choice of 6 different levels of JPEG)

All-new 9-point AF unit with high precision cross-type center sensor has one full stop better low-light performance than the EOS 10D

Ultra-fast start-up time of 0.2 seconds, only 65ms shutter lag time

Processing parameters include 2 presets, 3 custom sets, adjustable for contrast, sharpness, saturation and color tone, and the new monochrome mode which includes built-in digital filtration for yellow, orange, red and green, and print toning in sepia, blue, purple and green.

12 shooting modes, seven Basic Zone modes (Full Auto, Portrait, Landscape, Close-Up, Sports, Night Portrait and Flash Off) and five Creative Zone modes (Standard Program AE, Shutter-Priority AE, Aperture-Priority AE, Manual and Depth-Of-Field AE)

35-zone TTL metering, Evaluative (linked to all focusing points), Center-weighted average, or 9.5% central-area spot metering

White Balance: Auto, six presets and Manual color temperature (2800-10,000°K in 100° increments) and can be corrected for blue, amber, magenta or green.

Continuous mode capture: 5fps up to 23 frames (6 frames in RAW mode)

Shutter speeds: 30 to 1/8,000 seconds, 1/250 sec. flash sync

Eye level TTL viewfinder with diopter adjustment, illuminated AF points, depth-of-field preview and detailed information display.

1.8 inch, color TFT LCD, 118,000 pixels, 5 levels of brightness

ISO Range: 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,600 (3200 with ISO speed extension)

Built-in E-TTL II popup flash with red-eye reduction.

CompactFlash Type II card slot, Microdrive and FAT32 compatible

High-speed USB 2.0 interface for fast image downloads

Video Out with selectable NTSC or PAL timing

Powered by new BP-511A Li-ion battery pack with 25% more capacity. CG-580 rapid charger included

Lens Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

I bought the 20D with the Canon lens EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 which is typically sold with as a package. This lens is a cheap one and I have known that I would have to buy another lens. This one is not really good and is more degrading the overall quality of the 20D. Again, a lot of readindgs, specially in the forums this time. I was laughing a lot during all these readings because the people have about the same behaviour as in the IT world (Microsoft vs. Open Source, XP vs. linux): nether ending discussions between fans & experts who are fighting for Canon, or for Nikon, for this kind of lens, for this one, etc. :-)
I hesitated between two Canon lens, which are completely different and differently positionned: the EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM and the EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM. The 17-40 is recognized as one of the best lens in this range of price, with very high quality optics. It does give you true wide angle coverage (equal to a 27mm lens on a full frame 35mm camera) and being an "L" series lens it's built to professional standards, a silent USM (UltraSonic Motor) ring motor, distance scale and comes with a hood. USM motors are silent and manual focus (FTM = Full Time Manual) is possible without switching out of autofocus.

Have a look at theses reviews:

PhotoNet

dpreview

Fred Miranda

FountainPhoto: this one is pretty interesting because the author shot some pictures with both lenses and the comparison between the standard 18-55 and 17-40 is great!

Some inputs & one picture as an example

Weight of the Canon EOS 20D and the lens 17-40: 1.3 kg...

Picture resolution: 3504 x 2336

Size of the pictures (best quality jpg): between 3'711KB and 6'371KB per picture

Very easy to use in "full automatic". I am now learning step-by-step the new advanced functionalities. Good to have some books to be able to go ahead ;-)

[click to enlarge, size: 3'974KB]
ISO 400, 1/60s, f/4.0

PRIVATE: no problem :-)

I saw this poster yesterday in the office of a friend of mine. Great :-)

TRAVELLING: St.Barths (05)

Shopping

A paradise for shopping, a nightmare for your cerdit card ;-)

St. Barths is a duty free port, and shoppers will be delighted with the range and number of shops: from a shaded table by the side of the road, to the elegant displays and marble floors reminiscent of Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré in Paris.

The highest concentration of shops is in Gustavia, followed by St-Jean, with its several shopping centers. It is wise to allocated more than a single afternoon to see what's what and where's where.

[via St-Barths.com]

TOOLS: Mega Codec Pack v1.28

Free and plays everything under the sun, including QuickTime and RealTime.
Last version 1.28 available here.
About K-Lite Codec Pack.

NEWS: Microsoft completes Groove buyout

[via BetaNews]

Microsoft announced Friday that its $120 million acquisition of Groove Networks had completed, just days after a Delaware court threw out a lawsuit by a former Groove executive to prevent the merger. Michael Matthews sued because he claimed the deal was unfair to the employees of Groove Networks.

As planned, Groove will join the Information Worker unit of Microsoft, which develops Office. "While Groove and Microsoft technologies already work together in very powerful ways, we've only just begun to realize opportunities to better address the needs of information workers at a time when the very nature of work itself is changing," said Groove founder Ray Ozzie, now Microsoft's Chief Technical Officer.

BUSINESS: Annual results 2004 - Helvetia Patria Group

As you (perhaps?) know, I am working for Helvetia Patria (fast 10 years, wow). Our annual results 2004 were presented today and they are...pretty good ;-) Have a look:

• Gross premium written: 5'105 million CHF (1 euro = 1.5 CHF ~)


• Result after taxation: 159 million CHF (+72%)


• Investments at market value: 25'989 million CHF


• Return On Equity: 12.3 %


• Combined Ratio: 99.2%

One of the best result within Switzerland and Europe in the insurance branch.
Yey :-) Good for us and for our bonus.

The complete results are available here.

PICTURES: The greatest Jupiter portrait

[via CICLOPS]

CICLOPS means Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerationS. Very nice picture of Jupiter.

This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft starting at 5:31 Universal time on December 29, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet. It is the most detailed global color portrait of Jupiter ever produced; the smallest visible features are ~ 60 km (37 miles) across. The mosaic is composed of 27 images: nine images were required to cover the entire planet in a tic-tac-toe pattern, and each of those locations was imaged in red, green, and blue to provide true color. Although Cassini's camera can see more colors than humans can, Jupiter here looks the way that the human eye would see it.[...]

Everything visible on the planet is a cloud. The parallel reddish-brown and white bands, the white ovals, and the large Great Red Spot persist over many years despite the intense turbulence visible in the atmosphere. The most energetic features are the small, bright clouds to the left of the Great Red Spot and in similar locations in the northern half of the planet. These clouds grow and disappear over a few days and generate lightning. Streaks form as clouds are sheared apart by Jupiter's intense jet streams that run parallel to the colored bands. The prominent dark band in the northern half of the planet is the location of Jupiter's fastest jet stream, with eastward winds of 480 km (300 miles) per hour. Jupiter's diameter is eleven times that of Earth, so the smallest storms on this mosaic are comparable in size to the largest hurricanes on Earth.

BUSINESS: The deal between Groove and Microsoft

As you know, Microsoft acquired Groove last month.

Jeff Clavier posted an interesting follow-up about the deal. Have a look!

BLOG: Statistics March 2005

As usual, I would like to publish some information about my monthly statistics.

Technical statistics March 2005

- number of hits: 189'424 (daily min.: 3'994, max.: 10'381)
- number of pageviews: 45'678 (daily min.: 1'080, max.: 2'327)
- number of sessions: 24'213 (daily min.: 491, max.: 1'506)
- bytes transferred: 5.92 GB (daily min.: 120 MB, max.: 348 MB)

Requested pages March 2005

- weblog: 81% (thereof atom.xml: 30%, BootstrappersBible.pdf: 1.39%)
- website: 16%
- robots.txt: 3%

Browsers March 2005

The version 6.0 of Internet Explorer represents 93% of the IE's used to access my pages.

Some countries of my visitors March 2005

33 different countries identified:

Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Niue, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Traffic development

TRAVELLING: St.Barths (04)

Accomodations

We stayed at La Banane, which is really a great hotel. Very nice people here, who still know what is "service". We felt at home! On the other side, the hotel was renovated in 2000 and it is amazing. Just 9 bungalows, but ... hey, great ones. We were *very very* happy with our choice :-)

NEWS: How to get Google Gulped :-)

Umh, Google seems to launch a new "beta product" for geek, called Google Gulp :-) A FAQ is also accessible, if you *really* want to know more. Hilarous.

Think fruity. Think refreshing.
Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink™ technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it's low in carbs! And with flavors ranging from Beta Carroty to Glutamate Grape, you'll never run out of ways to quench your thirst for knowledge.

How to get Gulped?
You can pick up your own supply of this "limited release" product simply by turning in a used Gulp Cap at your local grocery store. How to get a Gulp Cap? Well, if you know someone who's already been "gulped," they can give you one. And if you don't know anyone who can give you one, don't worry – that just means you aren't cool. But very, very (very!) soon, you will be.

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp's usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear.