Wednesday, August 6, 2008

On The Move

Have you ever noticed that you may log onto a site when you first access the internet on a particular day, but a few hours later, or even a few minutes later, you've navigated away from the site you were on to any other number of sites? I personally do this sort of thing all the time. I'll be reading some manga scans, but then I'll get bored, so I head over to Youtube. And then I might wind up at Wikipedia, or the Urban Dictionary. And then I might check my e-mail while logging into Facebook. And before I actually read any of my e-mail, I'll have managed to log onto a forum, and start reading posts. And while doing all of this, I will have completely forgotten why I first gotten onto the internet today in the first place. I don't think I'm the only one that does this, but am I? I'll navigate through at least 50 or more websites a day, without even thinking about it. I can never stay in one place for too long, or I'll get bored. Maybe this can be attributed to the fact that I am a Gemini. Constantly on the move. But does everyone do this? I've never really thought about it before. Well then, I'm off to Facebook for now. And maybe then I'll have some lunch, though it may be 2 hours past lunchtime...

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Search Engines Arn't Always of Great Help...

Although, Google does a wonderful job of digging up nearly every website related to the topic entered, sometimes they're not very helpful. It takes quite a while sometimes to find the right website. And say you're searching for something in a different language. Google can help you there. I recently searched for GZ65N OPTICAL MASTER in Google, and I found a few websites, but the most useful ones were in Japanese. No need for me to worry, Google has the option to translate the website. Needless to say, this feature can be extremely helpful. The only problem was the topic of my search. The GZ65N OPTICAL MASTER is a model gun from the anime entitled Solty Rei. I could only track down one site that sells this replica firearm, but they don't ship out of the country. I was very dissappointed to learn that I would not be able to purchase this replica without actually traveling to Japan, but I did learn that Google has the ability to translate webpages. I'll probably utilize this feature as much as possible ^_^ Kudos to Google for being the most rockin' awesome search engine on the web!