I was researching the most popular searches on Google.

What? That's a perfectly normal thing to do. So I was researching the most popular searches on Google, so what?

Why?

Oh. Well, because I'm shameless and I was hoping to capitalize on what is interesting the world right now by writing a post on it. Which would (hopefully) generate more traffic for my blog. That's why.

So, like I was saying. I was researching the most popular searches on Google (the Preakness is topping the current searches). And I decided to take a look at the top searches of 2008. They were:

1. sarah palin
2. beijing 2008
3. facebook login
4. tuenti (the Spanish "Facebook")
   
5. heath ledger
6. obama
7. nasza klasa (the Polish "Facebook")
   
8. wer kennt wen (the German "Facebook")
   
9. euro 2008
10. jonas brothers

What does is say the Barack Obama didn't even make the top five? What does it say that only two politicians made the list but four social networking sites did? And what does it say about the future for music that the Jonas brothers made the list?

I'm not sure. But I can tell you this...

I am so not qualified to write about the Preakness.

So, here's the thing. I don't know HTML nor CSS, not really. I understand a few basic principles. I know how to utilize Google to find tutorials. I can, slowly but surely, fiddle with Blogger templates. But really, I don't know what I'm doing. And that would be why my current background is still very "March-ish." I'm troubleshooting my new design (which, if I get it fixed, will amaze you all*). But I'm running into problems too big for me to solve on my own. So now the process involves e-mailing people who actually do know what they're doing and waiting for their sage advice. And that slows down the process considerably.

Soon. I promise to be done soon.

Well...as soon as possible.

*You'd BETTER be amazed because it's taking a lot of time, effort, and swearing to bring this design to fruition.

I love Wikipedia. LOVE. IT. Have been a big fan and a regular patron for quite some time now. But imagine my astonishment when I discovered that Wikipedia can tell the future!

No joke people.

Behold..."WikiFuture!"

• 2010 Canada is hosting the Olympics, and pulling out of Afghanistan. Also, Microsoft will release their very futuristic computers.
  
• 2012 This is when the world is going to either reach new levels of awesomeness or end in some horrible catastrophe. I vote for transcendental event since Wikipedia contains entries for years after 2012.
• 2050 "Earth will not have sufficient resources to sustain human life by this year." Bummer. Guess we'll have to steal resources from some other planet. But trust me...it get's weirder. The people opposed to gay marriage now are going to have a fit when they find out that people will be marrying robots by 2050.
• 23rd Century Google (almighty Google which garners far more of my admiration and affection than Wikipedia) will have finished indexing ALL the data in the world.

But, you know...this is all user generated content so, who knows? *shrug*