Tonight Carin and I finally had the opportunity to rummage through the pictures taken over the Christmas weekend. I have posted a few pages worth of them into a Christmas 2006 photo album in the photo gallery. Please keep in mind a lot of these pictures were taken upon rolling out of bed on Christmas morning, so yea, beauty and fashion were not of great importance.

I think the title does a sufficient enough job of describing this video.

Google has released a new tool within their Webmaster Tools suite called Site Status. It’s a nifty little tool for those webmasters who have yet to sign up for the full Google Webmaster Tools collection. Type your url into a form and Google will tell you whether any pages from your site are indexed and when the last time was that Googlebot accessed your site. Also, it will offer a little insight into any potential problems it may have encountered while indexing the site. Finally, it tells you how to get additional detailed information by signing up for their Webmaster Tools.

Verdict: If you’ve already signed up for Google Webmaster Tools don’t bother, but if you haven’t this is definitely a useful tool.

Tonight I randomly came across a news article which referenced the Gospel of Thomas. For those who do not know, the Gospel of Thomas (attributed to Didymos Judas Thomas) is a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus, and is commonly referred to as the 5th gospel (the officially recognized gospels are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). Christian scholars maintain that the Gospel of Thomas was probably written between 50 and 200 A.D., with stark fluctuations in viewpoint depending upon who you ask. The gospel was lost for almost 2,000 years, however, only recently discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945.

The Gospel of Thomas is said to be gnostic in origin and stance by several fundamentalist Christians and this is probably why it was kept out of the original canon of the Holy Bible. It isn’t necessarily a “gospel” in the strictest sense, because

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose Fatah forces have been battling the ruling Hamas party over the weekend, condemned the rocket attacks by Hamas in what was probably the most honest, true statement to come out of the Middle East in all of this year. He said:

Gaza is free of occupation, but there are no investors and no prosperity. We dreamed that (Gaza) would prosper and dozens of investors from all over the world came to Gaza. Nothing has come to fruition. We decided it was better to fire rockets. Israel left, said goodbye, and instead of (Gaza) remaining calm and flourishing, there are those that still prefer to fire rockets.

The fact that Abbas said this is pretty remarkable for a number of reasons.

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Internet giant Google, Silicon Valley’s most valued business, has recently held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator owned by France Telecom. Executives from Orange flew to Silicon Valley for a meeting at the Googleplex. The plan is to manufacture a branded Google phone that would have Google software built-in to improve the traditionally daunting task of surfing the web on a mobile device.

Among the potential benefits are location-based searches: aware of your handset’s geographical position, Google could offer a tailored list of local cinemas, restaurants and other amenities, and maps and images from Google Earth.

As someone who uses Google an uncountable number of times each day I am

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A phenomenal trailor by Mikey Boom which comes as a result between the SEM-Media rivalry at work. (Yes, I am one of the aforementioned “donkeys.”)

Kofi Annan today gave his farewell address as Secretary-General of the United Nations. Annan, who has opposed the Iraq War since the beginning, criticized the Bush Administration’s global leadership, or rather lack thereof. He said that America must not sacrifice the democratic principles on which it was built while waging the war against terrorism. Annan said that “human rights and the rule of law are vital to global security and prosperity,” and added that when America does not follow these principles its allies abroad become “troubled and confused.”

He also discussed the United Nations as an organization, and

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Google has recently given its popular web-based email, Gmail, the ability to check and receive mail from other accounts across the Internet. It can pull email from up to 5 different accounts, both new and old messages. In addition, Gmail lets you customize the “From:” address, so that it will appear as if you’re sending from your other account, and not from Gmail. In order to make use of these feature your other email account must be POP3 access enabled.

This is certainly a viable alternative to email forwarding, especially wth Gmail’s mobile capabilities, now you can

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On November 24, 2006 Britney Spears was photographed getting out of a car without any underwear on, for all the world to see her nether regions. Ironically, Paris Hilton just so happened to be driving that car (I distinctly remember a similar incident happening to Miss Hilton a while back). While this incident alone is bad enough, it doesn’t satisfy the title of this blog entry, which makes use of the word “again.”

Fast forward a few days to November 29th, and

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