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Google Logo Maker [Take 2]

Thought this was fun the first time I saw it.  Now there's a new site where you can create your own Google-type search page with your name in "Google-esque" letters.  You can click on the logo to access the studentl.inc search page.

You can access the page to create your own at

http://007google.com/mygoogle.asp

Once In A Lifetime

Once In A Lifetime,
originally uploaded by timage.

Some will think I'm wierd for getting the least bit excited over this.  I also realize that I practiced very poor driving skills as I fumbled for my cell phone camera to snap this picture while going 45 mph down the road.

But friends, come on, you have to admit this is kind of cool.  Look at the odometer reading.  This is better than when I turned over 100,000.

More and more I'm finding little things to celebrate throughout my day.  I'm just glad I caught this.  I hope that the lady I almost ran off the road while trying to take this picture will forgive me.

I wonder where I'll be when it rolls over to 222222.
BONUS:  50 points to the person who can tell me what kind of vehicle I'm driving!

The MySpace Phenomenon

Online communities aren't anything new.  As the Internet evolves, people are discovering lots of different ways to connect with others.  One of those ways is through the web portal - MySpace.  MySpace.com is a social networking website that is taking up a lot of student's time.

The New York Times reports today on the MySpace phenomenon.

Even with many users in their 20's MySpace has the personality of an online version of a teenager's bedroom, a place where the walls are papered with posters and photographs, the music is loud, and grownups are an alien species.

Although many people over 30 have never heard of MySpace, it has about 27 million members, a nearly 400 percent growth since the start of the year.

Are you on MySpace?  Do you like it?

Hey Spaceman...Say Cheese!

This is an amazing shot!  NASA reports: "Astronaut Steve Robinson turns the camera on himself during his historic repair job "underneath" Discovery on August 3. The Shuttle's heat shield, where Robinson removed a pair of protruding gap fillers, is reflected in his visor."  Take a look at the Hi-Rez version by clicking on the picture or here.

Google Logo Maker

Now you can make your name or any word sit atop a Google-looking search page.  I created the studentl.inc google site here.  Now everyone can put their name in "Google Lights."

/Update 3-13-06/  Looks like the above link no longer works.  But there is another site that does the same thing here.

Very Pleased

I'm up in McCall, Idaho for a couple of days. This is giving me chance to run my new Treo 650 through the paces. It's doing amazing. I'm sitting on a dock by the Payette Lake and posting this to my blog. Very cool. Plus, I'm connected to my email, the web, and IM. All in the palm of my hand. One of the things that I'm highly anticipating is the combinatioon of the Treo with the Slingbox. That will be amazing.

Top Ten Non-Words

Merriam-Webster Online: "From the thousands of submissions we received, here, then, are the ten words (not in the dictionary) entered the most often:

Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous

2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time

3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement

4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends

5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway

6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: 'My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription.'

7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number

8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy

9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed

10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms"

I use "ginormous" all the time.  What are your favorite non-words?