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Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a new service for Google account holders and Gmail users. Derived from Google’s acquisition of the Writely service earlier this year, this service allows users to create word processing and spreadsheet documents within a web browser, so they can accessed from anywhere. These types of web-based applications are often referred to as “Office 2.0″ applications, implying an evolution of the standard desktop-based Office software. Google describes their service on the docs.google.com home page:

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a web-based word processing and spreadsheet program that keeps documents current and lets the people you choose update files from their own computers. You can, for example, coordinate your student group’s homework assignments, access your family to-do list from work or home, or collaborate with remote colleagues on a new business plan.

What’s exciting about Google Docs & Spreadsheets is that it also provides you the ability to post your documents directly to your weblog. It even can update your blog post when you update its original GDS document!

Google has made it easy to configure GDS to post to BlogHarbor weblogs by including BlogHarbor in the default list of blog services (thank you Google!), so all you need to know to configure GDS to post to your BlogHarbor weblog is your username and password.

BlogHarbor users see How to Configure Google Docs & Spreadsheets to Post to your Blog…

Technorati Tags: Google+Docs, BlogHarbor, Google

Bart Giamatti, former MLB commissioner, on the game of baseball:

It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

I heard that it rained pretty hard overnight in the NY area…

Technorati Tags: Mets, baseball

Congratulations to the New York Mets for a fantastic 2006 season! The Mets lost to the Cards last night in a very dramatic baseball game, one that Mets fans will be talking about for a long time… at least until Opening Day 2007.

And a thank you to Matthew Cerrone’s Metsblog.com, one of BlogHarbor’s most popular weblogs (public stats).

Matt’s done a fantastic job over the past few years building Metsblog.com, not only publishing great content, but also creating a strong community. It’s so exciting to see our platform helping people to share their passion, and for some to even make a living off of it: Publishing the site is now Matt’s full time job!

Technorati Tags: Mets, Metsblog

Went out for sushi on the first Sat. night we were here. Oishikatta
- it was delicious!

This shot shows the interior of the Shinkansen
bullet train’s Green Car. The Green Car is “first class” for
train travel in Japan. No, I am not sure why the Green Car is brown…

My daughter Katie watches Japan go by from the Narita Express
train from Narita airport in Chiba to Tokyo Station. It takes nearly an
hour by train from the airport to Tokyo Station.

When I lived in Japan in the early 90s, Halloween might have been an
American holiday that people were aware of, but it wasn’t something
they celebrated…

This shot from one of the shopping avenues here in Fujinomiya
shows that times have changed, and Halloween is now a part of even this
“country” (i.e. non-Tokyo) town…

Tried to take a picture of the Mister
Donut at the food court but  Donarudo Makudonarudo jumped
up to block my view. Did you know that Ronald McDonald is known as Donald
McDonald at Japanese
McDonald’s?

Ronald, Donald… Either way, they’re lovin’ it.

Mets fan? Please see The Bobby Burger and How the Bobby Burger Came to Be to learn more about the new revolution in hamburgers.

My previous post introduced
the Bobby Burger, an revolution in hamburgers “produced” by Bobby
Valentine, former NY Mets
manager and now kantoku of the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Now it can be revealed: How did Bobby come up with the idea for the
Bobby Burger? The placemat at Lotteria,
the only place in the world where the Bobby Burger can be found,
reveals Bobby’s magic. First, Bobby looked at all the veggies, and
chose pineapple to be the leadoff hitter. Extra cheese then moved the
“pine” over, and barbecue sauce loaded the bases. Now a taste of that
magical Bobby Burger - It’s a Home Run!