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I had a pretty typical dream last night -- lots of stuff that pops up often in dreams, like working on the computer (which is an awful waste of dreaming time, if you ask me) and walking through a hilariously complicated version of my home church building. For some bizarre reason, that building seems to gain thousands of rooms and passageways every time I dream about it. Kind of fun to explore, I guess. Not half as convoluted in real life, which is a good thing.

I found a couple interesting sites yesterday while browsing Cnet. One of them is this blog post with kind of a neat premise -- it looks at your browser history and compares that to a database listing the male-female ratio of each site. Then it uses that information to estimate what gender you are! I found it rather charming, though kind of silly for since I clear my browsing history whenever I exit the browser. I plan to try it sometime after I've been surfing a while, just to give it a more accurate picture, although it's even fun just to read the comments section.

You can find the post here.

The other site is the Mojave experiment. If you're online at all these days, you probably know that Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista, has... how shall I phrase this gently... met with an unusual amount of resistance and gotten some (read: scads of) negative press. Microsoft has been trying to counter this for a while now, but their arguments so far haven't been getting through. I have Vista on my new computer, and while it isn't half the monster people make it out to be, it does occasionally have a couple "features" that frustrate me.

I go to www.mojaveexperiment.com/ to cheer myself up. Way to go, Microsoft, for bringing some creativity and fun into the Vista campaign.

Reality check. I really should check more while I'm on the computer, seeing as I dream about it so much (and it sure would be a relief to take over at that point and say: "Ah-ah-ah! No more dream-wasting mundane computerness!!! I will now go do something I DON'T do every day in real life!!!).