I got tired of using one of the default templates that comes with Joomla. The template is called JA_Purity and though it may look nice to a lot of people, I personally did not like the choice of colors or how the pages laid out.

Even though I could have created a whole new custom template for the site, I just do not have the time to do that right now. I am not saying I won't in the future - but at this time I opted to use a pre-made template.

I opted to use the jw_clean_pro template from JoomlaWeb. I have to do a few tweeks to the custom code module that wraps the Google 'Computer Word Of The Day' Gagdet - but that will take me less time that building a whole new template.

If anybody knows who and what Google is, they probably think that the monster of internet search and web technology is miles ahead of everybody else.

While in the market of internet search, that may be true - but as far as a more down to earth application of green techniques to manage the local environment they lag miles and millennia behind the rest of humanity.

I just read a blog entry about the big G's new fangled endeavor to handle yard work in a more environmentally friendly manner.  It turns out that the powers that be at their Mountain View headquarters hate the idea of listening to the mechanical droning of lawn mowers while they burn gasoline to chop away at the overgrown acreage. So they elected to have goats trucked in and set loose with their ravenous appetites and iron guts upon the brush and weeds.

People all over the web are applauding Google for taking this environmentally chummy solution. Google fan bois and girlz are drooling all over themselves to get their own personal goats to usurp the John Deer they keep in the garage to drive over the neatly short patch of sod in front of the suburban homes.

Well, not that I am trying to pee in their pools here, but I have to tell you that on this one Google is far behind my family and millions of other families .

Professor Roger Wallis recently gave testimony in the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm. The retired academic and researcher from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm was brutally cross examined and the prosecution attacked his credibility as a witness.

I guess when he stated that he did not see any definitive link between file sharing and the decline of album sales, the prosecution let him have it with both barrels. He endured the attacks to slander his reputation and came out looking like he actually knew what the heck he was talking about.

Before leaving the courtroom, he was asked if he wanted reimbursement for his time at the trial. He declined but said he would accept flowers for his wife. Bittorrent supporters watching the web cast of the trial immedietely rallied in IRC, a Facebook group and a web page.

Within twenty-four hours, Roger and his wife's  apartment will flooded with flowers and chocolates. All this lovely fresh flora and confections just in time for the couples anniversay.

For those of you who are interested in following all the details on the trial, check out the trial page at thepiratebay.org.