I hope everyone did their part last night and went lights out for Earth Hour. Even the big shots turned off their lights; Google turned its site black to show its support.

It was interesting to see Google trying to lend its support, however a person can’t help but laugh at the fact that Google itself did a study last year and said “displaying black may actually increase energy usage.” However its the point of it all I suppose.

I must say though Its nice to see some of the big players giving back a little and showing their support for genuine good causes like Earth Hour. more people should follow suit.

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Problem:  K2 (< 1.0-RC5) Enabling Sidebar Modules/K2 Sidebar Manager breaks Dashboard.

Fix: Either disable Sidebar Modules/K2 Sidebar Manager in K2 Options or upgrade to 1.0-RC5.

Source: WikipediaIts seems there is a bit of trouble in paradise or should I say Google headquarters? Seems Google has been loosing mant top employees to Facebook of all places. Could it be that Facebook is giving the big “G” a bit of competition?

Forbes had a few words on the subject:

“Poor Google. Its stock has been sliding since the beginning of the year. Now key executives and engineers are trickling out and heading to the Internet’s latest darling, Facebook.”

“Within the last year, other Googlers have departed for Facebook. Among them: Gideon Yu, former chief financial officer at YouTube, Google’s video-sharing site, who is now chief financial officer at Facebook; and top engineers Benjamin Ling and Justin Rosenstein.”

OUCH! I wonder if the top brains at Google saw this coming?

The backlash from this is going to be pretty interesting to follow.