Domestic Geek

I make no apologies that I love Google. Even if they are plotting to take over the world, at least they're making my life easier in the process. Seriously, when you need a no-nonsense search engine, Google is it. When you want a little more out of your home page, their personalize version is pretty cool, too. I love all the little tools and search boxes and info that you can have. I heard on the radio on the way to work the other day that there were now themes available to make your Google page pretty. That conveniently slipped my mind until I saw a post about it over at ljcfyi yesterday. I immediately went and added one to my google page. There are currently six available, but I heard that there will be more in the future. I chose the Tea House theme. I love how the scene changes depending on the time of day.

Here's a screen shot I captured last night:

Many readers here know that I've been hosting my blog on a server in our house. That worked for a long time when I didn't have any visitors except a few friends and family members. I've been debating publicizing some of my other web projects since I know our little server wouldn't take kindly to the load. I also have a couple of things brewing in my mind, but didn't want to pay the money for a DNS service to point the URLs to this server. Well, yesterday I took the plunge and finally got an external web host. I'm still keeping this blog and anything on ladonnasworld at home, but other things are in the works on the host. The good news is I can finally had out my business cards again because that email address will be live again. I'm not going to talk about what's up my sleeve yet, but soon...very soon!

I saw this quiz on somebody's site a few mintues ago while I was surfing around. Like I said, confirms what I already know. I know I need to get some professional help. I just wish I could afford it.

Disorder	Your Score
Major Depression:	High
Dysthymia:	Very High
Bipolar Disorder:	High-Moderate
Cyclothymia:	Moderate
Seasonal Affective Disorder:	High
Postpartum Depression:	N/A
Take the Depression Test

Who hasn't seen the viral video that was all over the Internet a while back where Gary Brolsma lip-synced to O-Zone's "Dragostea Din Tei"? Well, if you haven't, crawl out from under your rock! Anyway, Marcus and I were curious as to how many times that video was now on YouTube and we came across something kind of funny. Since the original is sung in Romanian, it's easy to see how what is being sung can easily be misunderstood. Check out this person's funny take on that:

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I can't find what is wrong! I've opened up a test page, stripped out everything but the nav menu, the header, the posts and the footer and IT IS STILL SLOW TO LOAD! WTF??!!!

There are no javascripts, nothing from the outside, no dynamic headers, no CSS.

Obviously I've mistakenly changed some preference in my admin panel, but what? This is going to take a lot longer to fix than I thought. Hmph.