I have nothing of real interest to comment on today. My life is pretty much pre-occupied with moving to London and trying to enjoy the rest of the time I have here in wonderful Cincinnati. Since I rarely watch the news or read the paper I don't have knowledge of important current events I can comment on. My main source of news is my Google homepage.
The Google homepage is just another reason why Google is better than Yahoo. I was asked about this the other day and wasn't really able to describe the difference except that Google somehow searched the web differently than other search engines. According to Wikipedia Google analyzes the relationship between websites rather than just the number of times the search term appears on the page to come up with more accurate results. (I still don't quite get it, but whatever).
Back to the Google homepage. There are literally hundreds of choices to customize your page with content ranging from news, sports, lifestyle, videos, email and weather. You can also create a section of your own links for sites you commonly go to. Today I decided I needed to udpate my selection. I had some NY Times, Enterntainment News, BBC, ESPN, People and others but I found I only consistently read the entertainment news. Unfortunately that means I can only comment on such shallow happenings as Lindsey Lohan's latest fiasco, recent happenings with Brangelina and Shiloh or which celebrities were recently married or divorced. (Did you know that Pamela Anderson is engaged to Kid Rock? sick!)
I was browsing through the content and was amazed at all the choices. Definitely the weirdest module to add was a bra size calculator- why do you need that on your homepage??? Anyway, I added some links to CNN Money, Rolling Stone, NPR and BBC London. I also cut down on the entertainment stories, I found they were all repeats. Now hopefully I will be more well-rounded. The only downside is there are no local sites to add, but I added a few to my personal bookmarks section.
Lastly, they have a module that will countdown to a specific date so I added that as well. The current countdown for my move to London is 37 days.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
I've got nothin'
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I really didn't need to know the countdown. I'm still trying to live a little bit in "denial" :-)
Love, Mom
The Google page sounds cool. I have a Yahoo homepage but I'm starting not to find it as helpful lately. Maybe I'll check out Google's. I love it as a search engine!
And I agree with your mom -- 37 days sounds too quick for those of us "left behind"!
You might want to add the following webpage to your bookmarks:
http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/navigation/frameset.htm
It's to the Globe Theater in London. Hopefully, you'll be able to see a show there sometime while you're living in London.
Also, here is the link to the website on the British monarchy. It has info on the British royals, royal palaces, and other neat (I think) stuff.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp
I know, I panicked a little when I saw the countdown myself.
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