Photo Fun!

Inspired by my friend Mr. D's blog, I have spruced up my title with a snappy new picture.

The picture was cribbed from here and adjusted in MS Paint with my awesomely spectacular graphic design skills. If anyone who has actual graphic design skills wants to come up with something better, I would be much obliged.

Couple of other blog management type things, while we're on the topic:

1) I am vaguely considering switching the blog to Wordpress. There seem to be some better features over there that interest me. If anybody has thoughts on the relative merits of Wordpress vs. Blogger, or even just wants to tell me about the fantastic features of Wordpress, I'd be interested.

2) Ads. As I was implementing my title picture, I noticed a "Monetize" tab in the Blogger management screen. Since we in the U.S. are now all about monetization, I was intrigued. But, of course, I live to serve my readers, both of them. Would there be any sig. objections to my experimenting with the relatively run-of-the-mill Ad-Sense text ads? Please register objections in the comments to this post. Frankly, I'm interested to see what ads my rather specialized take on the world would draw...

Keep trying Tom...

Tom Cruise back on the Today show tries his darndest to be sane:
Nope.

"Not now, Mr. Obama, I'm concentrating on walking..."

I've noticed this tendency before but isn't it striking that when Bush is shown in a candid moment with other world leaders it very nearly always looks like a not-so-bright schoolboy getting a lecture?

I recall a great one of Gordon Brown just after he became Prime Minister in which he appeared to be using his fingers to show Bush how many ten was.