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One of the most annoying things in some site, is Music!

I hate entering a site and start listening to some song, or radio, that the site owner like to have playing soon as the page loads.

Imagine you are visiting one blog, and soon as you open the page you start hearing a song, it isn’t a bad song, but you are listening to your favorite CD’s, or simply listening to nothing, and then you got HIT! by the song the site is playing. You searched, you searched, and then you found the player in the only place you wouldn’t search at first.

Is it me, or this is really annoying? Again, the music doesn’t need to be bad, it just feels out of place, and if you are entertained with something else it will just become annoyer, and you will eventually loose interest on what you were trying to reach(by entering that site).

I’m not saying music should be banned from sites, I’m just trying to share the idea of having everything in the right place. Of course there are sites where you expect to have music (from your experience) but are about those annoying others I’m talking about.

Maybe not, but close. The Google folks released a new service where you can store your medical information.

In the Google Health you can create a profile for your condition and even for the procedures on taking care of it. You can also save tests results, and have a list of your allergies.

At start I was thinking this was a very odd service to offer, but thinking about it, this is really helpful. You can even find detailed information of your sickness/condition, or medical terms.

Just remains to know what is the Google plan by creating this variety of services.

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I have blogged for many years, and at the top of my blogging experience I had to stop doing it, for personal reasons.

This happened two years ago… I was the owner of some blogs, under Portuguese language, and was participating on several others, posting and commenting.

I didn’t stop immediately blogging, I really stop posting new content, but I still leave my comments on some blogs(with less frequency).

Nowadays I don’t have a routine for “the blogging”, I even tried to maintain this blog, but I have lost many respect for it. The lack of available time was really an excuse for posting(now I see that)

If I had the right respect for it, I would be posting regularly information. It doesn’t have to be LARGE posts. It could be some tiny paragraph, or several quotations, showing my interest on some topic.

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Many times asked your self, what is RSS and how can I get more info about it.

Well, RSS is an Abbreviation for Real Simple Syndication [you probably searched for this already], but what you don’t know is what is it used for, and how can you use it.

The RSS as we know was first invented by Netscape to distribute information(news, stories, etc.) but they dropped the idea too soon, until some group started building some interpretation of what should be RSS with the name of Rich Site Summary. Time passed and they decided to let Harvard Law school be responsible to manage the RSS specification.
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