Wireless Hub

I would like to give props to Mayor Menino and the City of Boston for implementing free WiFi at major places in our fair city. This actually helped us at work during the shit sandwich that was our move, as we were able to hop on the BostonWireless network on occasion while we were otherwise temporarly internets-less. Our location only afforded us infrequent, slow access, but nevertheless - free onlines just floating in the ether for anyone with a wireless card to hop onto. Great, great program.

Google Is Awesome

For the record, I just want to state that Google is awesome. For a while I've been quasi-using Bloglines and/or the Google Reader to check on blog updates, but I don't really like reading the entries in the window format. Lacks the personality of each blog. So normally I end up clicking through all my friends' blogs and other regularly read blogs for updates. I've got a lot of blogs now that I enjoy checking frequently, but I hate jumping around to each one and checking the Reader feed just doesn't appeal to me that much.

However, Google Reader has a neat little feature called the "Next" bookmark. Go into the Reader's Settings and under the Goodies tab, you can throw up the Next bookmark (as well as a one click Subscribe bookmark). What this does is it goes to each new item in your feed, just as if you went to the page yourself. Awesome! Now I can not only check out all my updates quickly and easily, but I can also gaze lovingly upon the various little spots that each of my favorite bloggers inhabits in the Blogosphere. It's a simple little tidbit but I love it already.

Also, to add: Google's whole suite of free Web apps is just fantastic. Gmail, calendar, the iGoogle Homepage (played with this for the first time today - very customizable), Web Analytics, the Chat - it's just awesome.

Thanks, Google. I *heart* thee unabashedly.