Thank Goodness It’s Friday Afternoon

Since it was only a 4 day week, I’m not sure why, but I’m exhausted. Of course I did go to bed late last night and I got up early this morning and got 30 minutes of Wii Fit in this morning before I got ready for work.  It’s Day 2 of my Think Thin week and I’ve exercised two days.  Seeing that I had lost 4 pounds yesterday was really motivating.

Have you heard about Google taking over Feedburner?  I had somehow missed that until today when I found out that all of our Feedburner accounts will be transferred over the Google on February 28 unless you’ve already done it yourself.  So I decided to go ahead and take care of this today. So not only am I happy to have that going on, but I also realized I have 32 subscribers!  Wow!  That’s exciting. I didn’t know there were 32 people that read me. (I love you guys!!)

So I don’t know much about the Google feed yet.  I’m transferring everything now.  I’m not sure how long it will take. I know of one blog that it was a 5 hour wait. But the good news is that you don’t have to sit and watch it transfer. You can even close the browser and it will continue moving.

If you use feedburner, you might want to beat the crowds and go get yours moved over. Otherwise, you may have a hard time when the zillions of blogs handled by feedburner move over on their own on February 28.

To move over, you simply login to Feedburner and in the upper right corner you’ll see a place to transfer your account. After that, it’s a very simply follow directions, click process.

After the proccess is over, you will no longer be able to login to Feedburner and instead you’ll login to http://feedburner.google.com. 

Seems to Have Worked

Well it appears that my last post worked just fine so I’m guessing that Google Chrome and WordPress 2.6 are friends.  My friend that was reporting the problems was using an older version on a blog that she doesn’t have the rights to upgrade so I’m guessing there may be some issues with older versions of WordPress and Chrome, but mine is working fine so far. One of the other things I haven’t tested yet is my Sunshine Rewards offers to see if they will credit when using Chrome.  That’s on my list of things to still test out.

My initial review:

• Fast, fast, fast.  I’m a Firefox user but it seems like pages are loading much faster in Chrome. The first thing I noticed was this actual blog.  There was no hesitation.
• Mostly compatible. I’ve gone through several sites and so far I’ve been able to completely function.  So far I haven’t found anything I can’t do.
• Userface is AWESOME!  I love the interface and look forward to becoming more adept at it.
• It’ll let me login to my school email!!  This may not seem like a big deal, but FireFox won’t let me and I’ve had to open IE to open it in the past.
• No pluins/extensions – I need Alexa and Stumble Upon Toolbars and such.  I’m missing those adds ons that I have with FireFox (Hopefully they will come soon).
• Not auto spell checking, I don’t think.  Usually in Firefox, when I misspell a word as I type these posts, it gets a pretty red underline, but I’m not seeing it here, and there’s one word at least in this post, I’m pretty sure is misspelled, and I’d really like to right click and correct it!!

Overall so far, I’m really liking this browser.  I know many are worried about Google taking over the world or something, but I have never really worried about this.  When everyone was on Microsoft’s case, I thought that was ridiculos and I am keeping the same ideas here.  If Google (or any other company) can make products that are superior or make more people happy, they deserve the rewards.  That’s the whole system of free enterprise right?

On another note, I have Ike damage – stay tuned for pictures and a post about that as time allows.  My grandmother just called and we have electricity at our house. When we talked to her, she was experimenting with some plastic engraving machines she had read about somewhere and then purchased. (She tends to buy those odd things that no one has ever heard of).  So we are now packing up all of our stuff and heading home.  I’m not sure if I’ll have Internet at home but if I do, I’ll be back online tonight to report in about my house and tell you about my damage.  :(

Following the Crowd?

Or maybe I’m blazing a trail? It’s all in perspective. I’ve noticed a lot about Google Chrome online lately so I guess I am following the crowd.  I want to see what all the hype is about, but I don’t know anyone personally that is using it so with our locals, I’m blazing a trail – I’m the technology guru! 

So I downloaded Google Chrome this morning and I’m about to close out my trusty firefox and give it a whirl.  I’m sure I’ll have lots to say about it over the next few days so come back to find out how it goes.

An Odd Story – Pay Per Click

I’ve been reading up on different ways to make money online (and in particular with blogging), and I came across a really interesting article that I just thought I had to share. It concerns Google Adwords.  You’ll  never guess what one of the highest paying keywords is! Are you ready? It’s mesothelioma. Yep, you read correct – a form of cancer caused by asbestos is one of google’s highest paying keywords. The current bid (as of April 30) for mesothelioma is $83.74 (compared to $3.48 for ring tone). Who would have guessed? The author of the article I was reading attributed it to lawyers. I’m still working on my understanding of Google and how to make money from Google, but I just thought I’d share that such an odd word (that I wasn’t even 100% sure what it meant) was ranked so high.

(Source: BestSyndication.com)