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I love stumbling across fanciful gems like this one. I always wondered what would happen if you asked 100 random companies for free stuff, and now thanks to the efforts of Tom Locke, I know!

The latest offering from Google is a free tool to allow you to build a webpage using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor that they have developed. The page is then hosted on Google’s servers. In total you can upload up to 100mb of stuff. Today, I put it through it’s paces by creating a small howto.

If this links to Google Mac Widgets then the answer is yes!

Google have just launched a few widgets for the Mac OS X dashboard, so I thought I would try the blogging one. If you are reading this, I guess it worked!

http://www.google.com/macwidgets/

Recently my mum has been talking of the benefits of having your own chickens at home, laying fresh eggs every day. So it looks like she is going to get an eglu and a couple of hens. I will let you know how the eggs taste.

I’ve been using delicious loads recently to keep track of my bookmarks. You assign keywords or tags to each bookmark, and then you can search other peoples bookmarks that match a particular keyword, so it’s a really good way of find new sites.

If you are looking for a tool to help you edit mysql tables with php then you should head on over to phpguru.org – This open source function has saved me a lot of time!

I hadn’t sat any exams for almost 5 years since doing my A-levels back in 2000. But in May of this year, I took an exam with Google Inc. and passed, so now I am a Google Adwords Professional. This technically means I know my way around the Adwords System, and how to manage campaigns effectively. I’m also working on some tools using the Google Apility PHP API and have started buiding an open source adwords MySQL schema.