A while ago I joined a blogshares spin off called shareb­logs. In which Dis­cov­er­ing new sites, net­work­ing with other blog­gers, and hav­ing a little fun giv­ing and receiv­ing gifts are also part of the enjoy­ment.. So, after reg­u­larly receiv­ing gifts of shares from vari­ous mem­bers and after I finally real­ised that I should be giv­ing gifts of shares to people, I decided to do just that. I star­ted with all my fel­low shareb­logs mem­bers, and then chose the then ten new­est play­ers to give to. I have had some nice emails back from people, in clud­ing one from Tanya Parker who men­tions me at the end of this post.

I like some of these case mods in this story over at Wired.

“PCs are a mar­vel of engin­eer­ing on the inside. The shell of a garden-variety desktop machine, on the other hand, is as dull as a com­mand prompt. Users long­ing for a box whose beauty is more than CPU-deep have inven­ted a new form of self-expression: case­mod­ding — alter­ing a PC’s exter­ior to make it as dis­tinct­ive as its owner.”

I’ve been work­ing on con­vert­ing Journ­al­ized to WordPress. I’m nearly there, but I keep get­ting dis­trac­ted by fix­ing bugs and answer­ing ques­tions on the sup­port forum.

“Google, the net’s most pop­u­lar search index is five years old today. Google is named for goo­gol, 1 fol­lowed by 100 zeros — a pretty big num­ber. While Google doesn’t quite have a goo­gol pages under index, it does have a bunch, 3,307,998,701, as of this after­noon. The site handles over 200 mil­lion search quer­ies each day.”

Story from ITinfo

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