I thought this was going to be a month without Searchy Fun, as it appeared that my not-so-mighty webhost lost a whole month (and change) of Administrivial Data. But alas, they came through in the end, so now you, the reader, have to sit through another round of it.

For those of you who came in late, these are the top 20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com on the various Search Engines of the World Wide Web.

Lets get to checking!
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You know what day it is…
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h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org is reporting on a new IBM initiative to design a chip to decode the big bang.

I’ve seen this movie before…
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I just crossed Patrick O’Brian’s H.M.S. Surprise off of the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List.

No, this is not my nickname for the 110th Congress, this is the latest political-crazy game (and there are so many of those):
Fantasy Congress

We The Creators of this site, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish Fantasy Congress for the United States of America.

In this game, we give you the power to draft and manage a team of members from the U.S. Congress. Enjoy our gift to you, o great nation: the power to play politics!â„¢

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Guess who is this year’s Time’s Person of the Year?

Can you guess?

Its YOU!

Yes
YOU!

Aren’t you excited?

Where is my stinkin Person of the Year prize?

Now you can walk amoung the other luminaries of Time’s Person of the Year covers:

• 1938: Adolph Hitler
• 1939: Joseph Stalin
• 1942: Joseph Stalin (again)
• 1957: Nikina Khrushchev
• 1979: Ayatullah Khomeini
• 1987: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
• 1989: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (again – we really loved him)
• 1993: “The PeaceMakers” – (One of which is Yasser Arafat)

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The Modernist Papers

Venomous Kate, over at Electric Venom has opened her blog to a particularly insightful Guest Blogger, and his subject is:
Liberals vs. Conservatives

It reminded me of my previous Modernist #5: On Liberals and Conservatives.

Let’s compare:
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The Not-So-Small-Software-Organization dropped a new computer in my corporate Geek-O-Sphere in my cubicle jungle this week.

I’m one of the lucky schmucks who gets to test the new Microsoft Vista to see if it will work in our corporate culture.
Check it out:

Language English (United States) en-us
Operating System Microsoft WinVista
Browser Firefox 2.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Javascript version 1.5
Monitor
Resolution : 1280 x 1024
Color Depth : 32 bits
Time of Visit Dec 22 2006 6:18:38 am
Last Page View Dec 22 2006 6:18:38 am
Visit Length 0 seconds
Page Views 1
Referring URL
Visit Entry Page http://jeremygilby.com/
Visit Exit Page http://jeremygilby.com/

So far, my review: It makes me feel like I’m using a Mac.
I hate it.
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O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour’s birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!

Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
O’er the world a star is sweetly gleaming,
Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus lowly manger;
In all our trials born to be our friends.
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger,
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!

Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.
And in his name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
With all our hearts we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,
His power and glory ever more proclaim!
His power and glory ever more proclaim!

1) Your Eagles are on top of the NFC East, again, for the first time.
2) Your Eagles just wooped the Dallas Cowboys (and swept them)
3) Your Eagles are going to the playoffs!
4) Your Eagles have a winning record for the season!

Can you believe it?
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Apple is the Eastern Orthodox Church, Microsoft is Catholicism, and Linux is Protestantism.

This insightful thought, brought to us by The Pirate King.

With an additional hat-tip to Chizumatic
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It was announced this morning, that former President Gerald Ford died, last night, in his home, in California, at the age of 93.

He was the oldest living man who served as President. He was the longest lived President in the history of the nation. He had the second longest post-presidency (the first belonging to Herbert Hoover.)

George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter are currently the 8th, and 9th longest lived presidents, respectively.

But, Gerald Ford’s legacy will forever by shadowed by the events of Watergate, and his presidential pardon of Richard M. Nixon.

All this history from the one man who was never elected to the office.
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I hesitate to publish this (maybe I’ll postpone it to when I’m asleep, to take the human factor out.) [ten-bucks says I delete this before midnight - ed.]

But, I need to get into words my feelings about the year of 2006. Before the close of the year.

I didn’t like 2006 at all. As I look back, I’m not fond of very much of it.

Its humbling to think that 2006 was probably the worst year of my life.
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Your team is the NFC East Champion.
Again.

They are 10-6.
They are the 3rd seat in the playoffs.

And their last win was done by the second string.

Wow!
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Well, I’m off to my New Year’s Eve party.

See you all in 2007.