Chrome is Crashing

Dear Google Chrome,

When I swore off IE8 and downloaded you I was excited at the promise of an internet browser that was reliable and uncrashable.  For 2.8 months we worked together in bliss.  I got to know you...you tracked cookies about me.  But you just had to go and act up.  First, you slowed my internet speed to a mere crawl.  Then, you affected my mouse click-a-bility speed.  The last straw was when you completely crashed, wiping out my desktop theme and ALL of my bookmarks.*  Way to go.

XOXO,
Amy

*While it may have been a virus that acted as the catalyst for your demise, I still blame you.

   

A Google Game

A few weeks ago, I posted a cupcake picture to let the world my followers and stalkers know that my BFF was turning 29 + 1 years old.  Well, it must have been International Cupcake Day/Week because I got a billion (give or take a few) hits on that post alone.

So I thought I would parlay my traffic sources into a game.  Listed below are some of the international Google referring sites that people have used to find my blog. 

How many can you identify using only the letters at the end of the link?

1. http://www.google.co.uk/
2. http://www.google.ca/
3. http://www.google.fi/
4. http://www.google.it/
5. http://www.google.si/
6. http://www.google.com.au/
7. http://www.google.co.za/
8. http://www.google.co.nz/
9. http://www.google.com.ph/
10. http://www.google.co.il/
11. http://www.google.ie/
12. http://www.google.hu/
13. http://www.google.de/
14. http://www.google.ru/
15. http://www.google.ae/

I scored a 13 out of 15.  How many did you guess right?

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1. United Kingdom  2. Canada  3. Finland  4. Italy  5. Slovenia  6. Australia  7. South Africa  8. New Zealand  9. Philippines  10. Israel  11. Ireland  12. Hungary  13. Germany  14. Russia  15. United Arab Emirates

Blogging Sojourn

So I’m back after like 85 weeks of nothing.

I wanted to describe my absence using the word sojourn, but I wasn’t technically clear on the meaning of the word. So after Googling* it I have found that sojourn in fact means “to stay somewhere temporarily” which is not at all what I meant. The word I was looking for was in fact hiatus.

So now that the word dilemma has been resolved I am ready to dive back into the world of blogging. I read that a blog should try to focus on one general topic in order to fit into a niche but when have I ever been a joiner? The correct answer is never.

This blog is just a collection of things. That is my topic area…is it specific? No. But is it open to interpretation thus lending itself to finding some direction and focus in the future? Sure.

So stay tuned for who knows what.

*The noun is Google which I can also use as a verb as in the sentence, “Did you Google him?” And I suppose if you did this yesterday one could reply with, “Yes, I Googled him.” But what about actively Google-ing? Googling? Hmmmm….thoughts?