Hail Google

Google makes my life materially better. It is fundamentally more enjoyable for having it on-line. To-day, I discovered the greatly expanded profile service: me. You ask, why bother? Don't you already have a Facebook profile? Yes, and I dislike it. It is locked within Facebook. It's also not quite as simple :) Facebook changes a bit more and more away from the profile aspect, and more towards communication. I'd prefer it if that were more public, too. I know people enjoy their privacy, and privacy is necessary for many things. I fear that someone will be able to answer those painfully simple "Reset your password" questions now :) I hope they all only send the answer back to my alternate e-mail :D

Google's profile page was originally much simpler and was mostly accessible via Google Reader. As you may have noted, I now have a Google Reader feed at the top of my blog. Clicking "Read more..." (which I intend on trying to change to "Excerpts and Comments") reveals my Google Reader Shared Items page, along with comments I've made on some of them. (Traditionally, short comments.)

I'm not sure if I've ever noted it here, but I use a Twitter-like service called identi.ca. I prefer it because of its open source foundation.

I will next try to get a stream of my public PicasaWeb photos here. I have been remiss in uploading recently, though.

Cheers, Internets.