Today my buddy Greg Stein announced that Google is providing a code hosting service at Google Code. The key features are:

• Simplicity, scalability, reliability
• Subversion on Bigtable
• Complete re-think of issue tracking

In a nutshell, if you are familiar with Google apps, it is easy to ramp on, is pretty simple, and focuses on the core aspects of a project.

My niece is visiting me later this month. I always worry about scenes like this when I am hanging out with her, except that I am saying “I’m here uncle”.
(click the picture to see the movie)

This picture of the smaller planets makes Earth look pretty important:

… but then when you look at the other planets, you get a different perspective …

… and then we just become little more then than a dot …

and then you realize, we only have a little sun …

that becomes only a dot in the scale of things ….