How I learned to love my overlords...

The names are blocked out for privacy reasons. Sort of...it just seemed like a good idea.)

Google doesn't need my help to continue on with their plans of world domination, and yet here I am about to give it to them. Because I have to say, I am really digging their iGoogle homepage thingy. I didn't hear much about it's rollout, google seems to kind of slip these things quietly into the market and let the strong survive. A good tactic if you ask me. Anyway, the google homepage is kind of like what I wanted from widgets, except widgets turned out to be slow, sort of annoying, and I eventually just stopped using them. But now, I have everything right there on my firefox page, which at this point is open pretty much 24/7. It takes a minute to get it the way you want it, and the visual "themes" are awful and seemingly aimed at 10 year old girls, so just stick with classic. But once you have it set up, I have my gmail, my google reader RSS feed, gchat, a dictionary, a wikipedia thingy, a youtube search (offscreen) a translator, all shit I actually use. It's tempting to overload your page with crap, but fight the instict and go with a your top 10 or 15 "gadgets" as the call them. It is pretty swank. (Dear Google, send the check to D-Rock, Budapest Lane.)