Google Wave: It's everything for everyone, for those who have it.

Google wave is awesome. Awesome because I've watched all the videos, read the hype and can't stand to live without it. Yesterday I got it. My immediate reaction was to enjoy it while it lasted because this was definitely the second coming and soon everyone around me would disappear leaving me nobody to wave with.

The problem I see is that you can only communicate with other wave users. If I still have to go to gmail to send an email to a non google wave user then it's pointless. Why do I need to have two email accounts? Not everyone is going to use google wave, even when it's freely distributed and available to anyone. My girlfriend still uses a yahoo account even though Gmail is much better. It's what she's used and she likes it. Guess what? I doubt we'll be able to ride the google wave together.

Unless I'm horribly mistaken or google ads the ability to send messages to people outside of the google wave system I'm afraid it won't replace gmail as my primary communication tool. If I am wrong please let me know in the comments!

Our office smells like shit. And mold. And…

Think of the worst smell you can imagine. Now flex your stomach muscles to start an involuntary reaction that'll force you to throw up a little bit in your mouth. Welcome to our office. It usually smells like shit, literally. I'm not saying it smells like shit to just to exaggerate or to be crass. It's actually shit. There's a sewer gas leak that has gone unfixed for about six months.

When we have a reprieve from the poo cloud hovering around us, we're comforted by the sweet stingy smell of mold settling in to our alveoli where our bodies can process them and turn the mold into a host of physical ailments. I assume you can survive smelling puffs of poop toxins. People work around it all the time in processing facilities. But, I'm confident the mold is slowly killing me. And something that doesn't require an objective opinion on is the fact that it reduces productivity.