I’ve spent entirely too much time tracking the theme for my personalized Google home page today.
You can now customize the header image with a choice of different themes and Google changes the picture based on your location and the time of day.
I chose the Tea House and, as I am in Seoul, it gave me this:
Because it’s around 9 p.m. right now, the little fox (?) is singing on the dock.
But, when I get up in the morning, the sun will be rising in the east and he will be either eating breakfast or fishing off the end of the pier. In the afternoon, he works in the orchard. I signed on from work about 5 p.m. and he was sitting down to a table full of side dishes for his evening meal. There are lots of other creatures that drift in and out, from the ducks above, to goldfish, to butterflies, and, of course, you see the crickets that have come out for nightfall.
Maybe I’m pathetic, and maybe it’s the hormones, but I think this is really cute.
OK, so maybe it’s like crack for the really simple-minded.
{ 10 comments }
Uncle T 03.28.07 at 9:50 pm
I think it’s a cool idea.
Aunt Clara Voyant 03.28.07 at 10:22 pm
It’s okay to do that now. Soon you won’t have time.
Peter 03.29.07 at 12:32 am
It is very cute!
Good blog this..good updates too, was looking at some korea blogs now
Peter in Ireland
Your Brother 03.29.07 at 3:10 am
Hormonal, yes. Simple minded? Not so much…
kangmi 03.29.07 at 4:11 am
I have that theme, too, and I love it more than I should.
Have you seen the frog sitting on the end of the dock? He’s got a little crown on his head.
Alice 03.29.07 at 7:41 am
Yet another reason to love Google!!
annamatic 03.29.07 at 7:52 am
I have that theme too! Well, it was the cutest one… :)
At first I couldn’t figure out how to enter the fact that I was in Korea — it only had spaces to select your State and Zip Code. But it seems to have automatically fixed itself. Hmmm how does Google know where I am….?
Cat 03.29.07 at 8:00 am
Annamatic,
Somehow I was able to enter my country, but even before doing that Google figured out I was logging in from Korea and kept switching my search engine to the Korean language page.
It’s stopped doing that now, but it did creep me out a little at first. They can tell by the IP address where you are signing on from.
Kangmi,
Yes! I have seen the frog prince. Very witty.
M- 03.30.07 at 3:41 am
I will have to see if I can catch this sunrise (much better chance than the real thing). Cute idea! Hope the ducks survive the fox?
Your Little Brother 03.30.07 at 1:05 pm
I use bus stop myself… Also, the Calvin and Hobbes add in is pretty cool.
Comments on this entry are closed.