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Ok...it works. And I've migrated, too. Yahoo 360 had acted up a few times for us (as well as some friends) and I had been thinking of making the switch.

Heather and Tom were doing geography today:

Heather (pointing to the U.S. on a map) - "We live in the western hemisphere"
Tom - "No we don't. We live in the eastern hemisphere"
Heather - "Oh! Your right!"
Tom - "We live on the other side of the world!"

Meanwhile, Nicolas had jumped ahead in his history book and was looking at castles in Germany. Why do the castles in this book look so nice, while the castles where we live are just a bunch of big square towers? How cool is it that he compares our boring castles to the rest of Europe's cool lookin' castles?!?!

The smartcar commercial is a funny one we see on TV all the time. Smartcars are these super tiny little cars, made by Mercedes and the company that makes Swatch watches. They're all over the place here and kind of cool looking in a I-wouldn't-want-to-own-one kind of way.

ciao,

bud