Mick's World

With the year quickly coming to an end, time is running out for the federal election to be held this year.

Although Howard has been procrastinating on announcing an election date, Google has been quick to create a world first election web page which makes use of a few of Google's technologies to keep track of the election and provide information about the parties and news surrounding the election buzz.

Since this is the second federal election i've been able to vote in, it's really interesting to see a large company like Google using it's technologies to put together something that's sure to be useful to any voter that wants to stay up to date with the pre-election news, all the election hype during the event and also post election updates once the *hopefully* new leader is chosen.

It's seems that there are many changes happening over at Technorati. They seem to be changing design and features even more frequently than GoDaddy.

If it ain't broke don't fix it

What was wrong with the Technorati that worked before anyway? Are they intentionally breaking features so that they have to be fixed? Every time i look at the site lately there is either something added, something removed, something a different colour or different design. Are they running the live site off their development server or what?

One big dorky looking feature that has been added is that massive ad at the top. What happened to the tag ticker they had a couple of days ago? Can't they keep the tag ticker throughout the site?

Make your choice and stick with it

There must be a lot of heated discussion inside the Technorati offices, for things to be changing so much and so drastically in some cases there is a serious case of indecision going on.

It's as bad as bad as women shopping. Try on 10 different things, a couple of items look good, they buy them, get home, don't like them, return them and try on another 10 items.

Hopefully they just settle on something soon so that the site can be used without things breaking, having to learn where something is again or being greeted with a new design on each visit. 

Over the last couple of months i've met a few bloggers who are not only passionate about blogging, but they're also down to earth nice people.

There are plenty of exchanges going on around the place (technorati, alexa, stumble upon, blogroll, etc.). But i would just like to share some straight up link love.

So here's a list of a few bloggers who i think are great people and there personalities will allow them to go far.

• Untwisted Vortex
• Coach
• Goldcoaster
• Dipping into the Blogpond
• The Wrong Advices

Thanks guys. Keep one blogging.

There's a great deal of buzz surrounding the recent news of Paris Hilton's run in with the law. Many people see her sentence as just another person (spoiled rich girl) getting what they deserves for breaking the law and with her plea for pardon to Arnold Schwarzenegger (pity he's not the terminator now), she seems like even more of a brat.

She still has her fans of course and they're behind her signing petitions to get her the pardon.

Well there's another kind of petition going around that's gaining quite a bit of momentum. That's the petition to lock her up.

She is a human being living on this earth with the rest of us after all. If she does the crime, she should certainly do the time. So get signing and sending to you friends so she can get the punishment she deserves. It's only 45 days anyway, no matter how scared she is of the inmates.