Archive for February, 2007

Yeah, my widgets are getting out of control, but most of my readers use RSS apps anyway. Aren’t crazy amounts of plugins half the fun of blogging?

My latest site “enhancement” is my Ban That widget you can see on the top of my sidebar. It’s a fun site to tell the world about things you hate and why.

Check out Google’s Valentine’s day logo.

If my wife had a pet name for me I definitely wouldn’t tell millions of people. Way to let it slip Big G.

Is this a misspelling or an attempt to be cute with a pet name?
I’m not sure if the strawberry stem is meant to represent the “L” or not.

I’ve wanted a cartoon image of myself for my website for a while now. So, when I came across CartoonMe.com I figured there wasn’t much to lose for $3.

Check out the results.

All I had to do was send a picture and the next day I received my cartoon. Notice I wasn’t wearing a purple shirt though! Never!

Many have been trying to predict what effect social bookmarks would have on search. Yahoo acquired del.icio.us peaking some interest and now Google has released some insite into how Google Bookmarks will influence search.

When you’re signed in to Google Accounts, you’ll now get more relevant, useful search results, recommendations and other personalized features. For example, if you use Google Bookmarks or Google Search History, you’ll get more targeted web search results and recommendations for videos or gadgets. You can easily access these recommendations by adding the “Interesting Items” gadget directly to your personalized homepage.

Read it for yourself on Google Help.