Because I am prone to anxiety, and the anniversary of my mother’s death has apparently pulled the scab off that wound, I’ve decided to seek refuge in meditation. Since I know nothing about it except what I saw on an episode of Eight is Enough a million y ears ago, I visited Google and my first click was rather informative, aptly named How to Meditate.
This seems surprisingly like the teachings of my Totally Unique Thoughts guy, Mike Dooley, who taught me the laws of attraction on 12 CDs that my sister so graciously sent me a few years ago. Unfortunately, …read more

Look what’s new at the Birmingham Zoo! It’s some freaky foam thingie called a Foam Zone, which Rick says reminds him of “foam night” at bars in the 1990s. I don’t remember that, but Rick did say he never actually went to “foam night,” so that’s reassuring.
The foam is made of kid-friendly soap suds, which is not supposed to damage clothing or sting eyes or irritate skin. And it’s, you know, clean….right? Someone mentioned how cool it would be to have at a birthday party, so I did a quick Google search and found that PartyMachines.com sells those machines …read more

Google Blogger for Dummies, a recently published book by Susan Gunelius, provides extensive resources for anyone starting a blog or expanding one.
Many quilters, fabric artists and craftspeople have blogs or plan to develop them.  Although Google Blogger itself walks you through the set-up steps without confusion, there often are situations that puzzle you.
Susan Gunelius, a former b5 blogger,  solves this for you with Google Blogger for Dummies.  Even though I have several blogs, I am learning a great deal by reading Susan’s book.
Some crafters set their blogs up simply for fun, as my daughter has with Meandering Threads.  Others use blogs to …read more

When dating, people chose many different ways to meet people, to get to know them, to figure out if a particular individual – with all the details that make up that person – will fit within their own life. Are they a possible match? Will they mesh?
One of the ways that I’ve read about people doing this includes researching a potential date’s background – they Google their date.
Have you done this, have you Googled someone either before or after a date?  I use Google every day, but googling a date, that’s not something that I have done.
Just for the heck …read more

A Dutch dating website for farmers has taken Google to court for listing sponsored links to pornographic sites when you enter the site’s name into the search engine, the website said on Monday.
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It is sad when a simple search ends in eye popping results!  I’ve had my share of steamy – unmentionable results on simple searches.
One I will NEVER forget was searching for the old Suzanne Sommers Thigh Master workout gadget.  I nearly fell off my chair.
Have you ever done a search only to be completely shocked at the results?  I mean how could something so innocent – such …read more

There’s been a great deal of discussion on whether the announcement regarding Google Personals of April 1 was actually a joke or not.
Well, it’s not!
Via CNet News
If you go to the main page of Google Base you’ll see among the numerous categories–ranging now from coupons and clinical trials to events, jobs, cars, housing and protein databases–an area called “People Profiles.” Clicking on People Profiles brings up a page with seemingly recent submissions
It seems Google is taking a shine to the 32% increase in online dating over the recent months and is jumping in while the waters are warm.
You can Google …read more