The mysteries of Google

Google is keeping me awake.
They apparently updated the page rank system a couple weeks ago. There's a lot of panicky chatter about it on the webmaster forums. (Mystifying, too. Many people are "quoting" Google as saying that PageRank has no effect on Google listing results, which makes no sense to me.)
My personal Google resume, while still largely referring to me, is quite different than it was last time I checked it. Also, weirdly, it now includes things I recently sent out through Constant Contact. Apparently the new ranking system favors newsletter aggregators (unless those aggregators are new, which I admit is possible).
My professional website's Google listings are extremely pear-shaped. I don't even know where to start.
It's exciting, in a grumblecakey-awake-late-geeky kind of way.

James Burke has been busy.

James Burke, who wired my brain when I was 7 with his show Connections, is busy working on this piece of crazy beauty.
There are lots of ways to help, from buying his books on Amazon to researching and writing grants. I can write grants. I hate it, but for James Burke and what he's trying to do, I think I'd be willing.
(Because I don't have enough hobbies. Guess I'm just trying to fill those four pesky free weekends between now and December...)

Slacker.

Many people claim to be the winners of a Slack Blogger Award, but I'm not sure they deserve it.
Ehren has now officially passed the one-year mark since his last post in this blog.
I'm just sayin'.