Two days in a row

Look out, I'm checking in two days in a row. This could be a trend ;).

I spent the day cleaning up my house and catching up on some things. I am beginning to hate weekends. For whatever reason I have been staying up until 1 or 2 in the morning on Friday & Saturday night. Now if I was with a special someone that would be one thing, but just not sleeping sucks!

Google's New Toolbar

There has been a lot of commotion about Google's new toolbar that is going to start adding links to the content of other people's page. Most people seem to think this is a good idea, although Dave Winer does not. I have to side with Dave on this one. Aside from the fact that the original creator does not appear to get any benefit, I doubt anyone will understand the difference between links placed by the creator and links placed by Google. Plus, as Dave has pointed out elsewhere, what happens when, say, a small bookseller has a bunch of links for books that are now pointing to Amazon? What about an article about anti-commercialism that converts sighted books to Amazon links?

To take it a step further, what happens if Micro$oft gets in on it? Microsoft tried this before and got reamed for it. Is Google really any different than Microsoft? Personally, I would prefer that everyone keeps their cotten picking hands off the web pages that I create.