Gosh, it's the third of September, which makes me three entries behind in my putative Post and Read Every Day In September plan, which I told no one about and only vaguely hinted at to
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You just take a whole string of pictures. Google applies Auto Awesome automatically.


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Is anyone else trying to re-figure out how to have an online life? Is anyone else feeling that Google+ is cool but how many more social networks do I need? Does anyone else wonder if there's still a place for a journaling site like Dreamwidth and LiveJournal in their life ( Read more... )

Is anyone else having this strange Google Docs behavior where Pg Up and Pg Dn zoom you most of the way through any document, no matter how long it is ( Read more... )

I'm hearing rumors in the bike blogosphere today suggesting that Google is about to announce a new GoogleMaps feature: Bike Routes ( Read more... )

Seems like it's about time for a report from the geek side. I'm on vacation for a couple of days and have been enjoying the balmy just-above-freezing sunshine from the comfort of my sofa, while playing on the internet in between very productive writing sessions.

If you're on a Windows computer and you don't yet use Chrome as your main browser... ( Read more... )

I've just started using gmail as my regular email address.

Call me naive, but I'm dismayed to discover that it reads your email and advertises to you according to what you communicate about. I mentioned Rebecca Fine, Wallace Wattles, and "The Science of Getting Rich" in passing in an email to roseambr and here's what the sidebar looked like when I next ( Read more... )

*waves at friends from the World's Tallest Basement*

Yay! It's Monday. [/sarcasm]

1. The secret to losing weight is to eat a whole lot less than you've been eating. The secret to doing that, apparently, is to take it in phases--first give up all crap food* but eat as much as you want of good food** for about six months; then for another six months ( Read more... )