Bah, I should know that the reason Google leaves things in “beta” for years and years is so they can sneakily add features to them without necessarily telling you. Features you may have been waiting for.

So I’ve been using the Google personalised homepage (I think they call it “individualised”) for a while now… www.google.com/ig. And I only just discovered that sometime between the last time I checked and today, the weather module has been updated to include various international weather locations as well as the US (like, for example, Melbourne AU); and the “roll your own” module now lets you use a RSS feed, not just a Google search. Which is infinitely more useful, at least to me.

So now I’ve pretty much doubled the number of things on my Google homepage. Heh heh. Some of you may have heard my harebrained scheme for producing my own personalised newspaper with a few RSS aggregators, a bit of Google News’s parsing code, and an A1 printer… This homepage seems to be getting closer to that dream (without the A1 printer bit of course).

Screenshot:

You’ll notice, of course, that the weather, while being Australia’s weather, is still in American units. Feh.

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