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If you're a regular reader - *insert disbelief here* - you might have noticed the changes to the site.  Among these changes is the new subheading: A (hopefully) daily tech news blog.

Yeah.  I haven't been keeping up well on that, have I?

So, I thought that I would try out iGoogle last week.  For those of you who don't know what iGoogle is, it's Google's alternate homepage.  Of course, you all know about the clean-cut homepage that Google usually sports, designed to load really fast.  iGoogle is an optional build-up of that.

What?  I'm not gonna let you look at my Facebook.  Creeper.

The Twitter and Facebook gadget alone is reason enough to go to the site.  In my opinion, it's much better than those sites that make their whole business off of putting Twitter and Facebook together.  The only downside is that you don't get FB chat on iGoogle.  Another really nice feature is the weather centre.  As you can see, it's matching the extension I have next to the address bar (although I don't know why I have two weather centers now.)  It also has news feeds in there, which you can customize. Other features that I don't have on my page include comics, games, and a TV guide.

The best feature, though, would have to be the Google Calendar feature.  I started my own calendar up recently so that I can keep track of what I'm doing next year when I'm attending university.  Having the gadget there really helps.  I can get my Twitter and Facebook feeds, as well as my schedule, on one site.  I highly recommend iGoogle for anyone who doesn't already have something like this.

Questions that make you go "Huh?"

Have you ever played Antbuster? The plot is nonsense. The humans who left the cake out there never once tried to get the cake in the half hour I played it for. Why am I trying to protect a cake that nobody wants?

If the update to this "Facebook Gold" thing is actually free, why don't they just offer it to everybody?

How can Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If they were pickled, wouldn't they already need to be picked?

Why is it that the only place north of Florida that doesn't have snow is the one holding the Winter Olympics?

Why was the movie called "Mission: Impossible" if Tom Cruise actually accomplished the mission?

What's the deal with Justin Bieber being a trending topic on Twitter? Isn't it because people are just Tweeting about how they hate him?

Why is it that the main demographic that the Jonas brothers appeal to are under 13? Seems a bit weird...

And finally, why is it that so many people are dramatic on Facebook, but hate people that are dramatic on Facebook?

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Well, that didn't work. Only 5 hours of sleep last night, and I'm only running on two cups of coffee right now. It didn't help that I had to stay late at school today, and that I had a chem test. But enough about me.

It looks like Facebook did another "update" on us. I wouldn't know; they haven't gotten around to me yet. But somehow they manage to mess up my Facebook without even trying to. Example:

So it would seem that Facebook can't even get doing nothing right! I really do hope some other guy decides to make a better site, because right now the only reason I'm still on Facebook is because none of my friends have found anything better. What are your thoughts on Facebook, and what would you put in a new social site to replace it? I look forward to reading your comments.

One more thing. For the next two days, I'm gonna be away at Band Camp.

...Well, maybe not that.

But it will mean that I might not be posting for the next two days. I'll try as hard as I can to get one up tomorrow, but it looks like Wednesday will be a no go, unless they got internet there. Since I can't post on Wednesday, there will be two posts on Thursday.

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