Picasa, Google and Air Conditioning
Yea, those three don’t necessarily go together.
Anyway, I went to get Picasa because I like how it handles picture resizing. I searched for Picasa (because it’s faster than typing in a URL and this is what I got):
Pretty normal. The first link (the “Download” link) was, obviously, my main interest. So I click on it. What do I go to? This URL: http://picasa.google.com/download/thanks.html. It looks like this:
Seriously Google? One of your major properties is displaying 404 links on your own search engines sitelinks? How is that possible? And what’s with the uber old school Google 404 error page? I think that logo is circa 1998 or something. Probably made in a Stanford computer lab computer by Larry Page in MSPaint. I can’t believe that Google doesn’t have both a) a more advanced algorithm for detecting sitelinks and b) someone checking on this stuff somewhere in their QA department.
Anyway, the reason I was looking for Picasa, as I said, was for photo resizing. Over the last few days, I had some air conditioning units put into my Costa Rica condo. The rainy season is coming to an end pretty soon and once it’s the dry season, it’ll be pretty nice to have AC. I was going to send a few pics to my family via email, but now that I’m blogging about it, here’s the partial install sequence for one of the units:
Pretty sweet.
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I’ve never seen anything that looked like that before. What kind of wall is that? Marble? What room is that in? How many did you have to install to cool your whole place? I’m surprised that the places wouldn’t come with central air.
I have no idea what kind of stone it is. I don’t think marble, but maybe. I figured it was some sort of colored slate, but who knows. I never bothered to ask because I didn’t care.
Also, for whatever reason, these wall units are how A/C tends to work in Costa Rica. Very very rare to have central HVAC units like in the US. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in a residential unit in Costa Rica. I installed two of these 12,000 (I think) BTU wall units. One in the main room, one in the bedroom. The 2nd bedroom/TV room should get enough overflow to stay cool when needed.
Wow, that’s the nicest looking room AC I’ve ever seen!
That’s too funny about the Picasa download page. I’m sure it’s because they just recently released the v3 Beta but still. Sure makes them look silly.
BTW, if you never used v2 you won’t appreciate AS MUCH the very kewl features/upgrades in v3. I love Picasa and use the HTML codes they provide in my blog all the time. They did mess with the code for v3 though and I find myself having to edit it a bit now. Still, very handy stuff.