I am feeling much better now I was mostly better yesterday, well enough to enjoy my birthday, so I’m thankful for that. I didn’t have the stomache for snacking at the party, but it could have been much worse I had a great day, first off getting much more schoolwork done than I had expected, and then with the party after supper. We had the whole station over after supper for snacks and a game. We played a modified version of Taboo (if you’ve heard of that) with words that had something to do with me.

School continues to go very well today as I have almost finished an entire week of English in the last hour. Chels gets to chat tomorrow, and I’m thinking of calling her on Saturday, so I’m quite happy right now

Google has launched a new service, dubbed ‘Google Analytics‘. It seems to be sort of like Mint, an elaborate Javascript-powered hitcounter and traffic measuring service. Unlike Mint, it is not hosted off of your webspace, but is rather managed on the Google servers. Also unlike Mint, it is free. Having never used Mint, I am not really qualified to do a comparison otherwise, but I may try out Google Analytics eventually.

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Del.icio.us pushed a bunch of new features the other day (see announcement). One of the best things they’ve done is released a help section. While del.icio.us is not complicated and anyone who knows what they’re doing can figure it out by messing with it (especially if subscribed to their mailing list), however for new users this is not all that appealing, and a help section is a time-saver, even for more advanced users.

Another new feature in this set is what they’re calling ‘editable breadcrumbs’. Basically it’s what the advanced del.icio.us users have been doing since the beginning, navigating to an exact tag combination without having to click all the proper navigation links in the sidebar. Whereas people have been using the easy-to-remember URL system on del.icio.us to do this by entering manual URLs in the location bar of their browser, this system adds a textbox to the header area on your del.icio.us account so you can enter such custom tag combinations there directly, without having to remember the URL form, which could be useful to new users.

Following up to their Javascript Link Rolls feature (which allows you to easily include your recent del.icio.us bookmarks in your website), they have released ‘Tag Rolls’. The nice, dynamic interface lets you create, basically, a tag cloud of your del.icio.us bookmarks and provides a Javascript code to use for including it in your website.

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Ya, I’m sick today. Started about last night, and it’s looking to be a relatively serious case of the flu. Please pray for me, I don’t want to be sick on my birthday

In other news – Chels gets to chat for one hour sometime this week for her birthday, her parents are letting her… awesome Time yet to be set, but I’ll be on no matter when it is or if I’m even still sick then

Not much else going on just now… at least not that I can think of…

It looks like Chels will be coming back in three weeks or less probably She’s only about a week and a half behind as of now Can you tell I’m happy?

What else is going on with me personally? Umm… I have a load of French homework to do because I forgot to do last week’s, so I have two weeks at once Power is going off in five mintues so I have to hurry up and finish this. I seem to be concentrating much better on my schoolwork, and I’d like to thank everyone for praying I still get distracted enough to find the occasional piece of interesting web content to go on my tech blog, but school is not dragging on me like it was.

Not much else just now, just thought I’d pop off a quick update. Oh, and who would be interested in subscribing to this blog via email? If anyone. Just curious…