I was a bit surprised, when I read the Google buys Pyra article. Based on what Evan Williams have said about his company in the past I never thought he would sell Blogger. But now it's done and people seem unsure what this will mean to those of us living in the Blogosphere. Ev posted about the deal here and here and comments about the deal have been made by Tony Pierce, Anil Dash, Jason Kottke, Azeem Azhar, Nick Denton, and Dave Winer (and pretty much every other blogger in the world).

Obviously, this is great news for Evan and his Blogger team. But what's interesting for the rest of us is the effects this deal could have. Hopefully, it'll mean that Blogger will start functioning better (I tried to blog about the deal yesterday on a Blogger Pro powered site, but I couldn't get through) and that the guys will have time to start adding new functionalities to Blogger Pro. Which would be nice.
I think Google will find some way of adding their search engine to blogspot sites meaning that archival searches will finally be possible, but at the same time making it possible to make Google searches from all blogspot sites. This will make their search engine even more popular and further establish them as the number one search engine. And that's obviously bad news for more companies, who are developing other search engines and also for the people, who don't like Google.

Another concern could be that Google might favour Blogger powered sites, while searching for information. Google seems to rely heavily on the Page Rank system, and if they start ranking Blogger pages higher than say MT or Userland powered sites then a search would more likely return Blogger powered sites than other sites. Hopefully, this won't happen, but I think it's something to keep an eye out for.

But, concerns aside, this is a very interesting partnership and I'm sure this new development in the world of blogging will be followed closely.

In other news a Danish paper claims that Sunderland AFC has a debt of 30 million punds and that being relegated this season will mean a loss of income of about 20 million punds next season. That means they'll most likely have to sell a couple of key players including Danish goalie Thomas Sørensen. Now I know that people still think of him as the guy, who dropped the ball into his own net during the Denmark - England game, but overlooking that one crucial mistake he's a very good goalie. He's been picking off penalty kicks left and right this season and I personally think he would be a good investment for Arsenal seeing as Seaman is in the autumn of his career. Two of the goalies Wenger has available right now are injured and a third is signed to a short term contract. So none of them look like long term solutions and I definitely think Sørensen is worth taking a look at. But whatever happens in his career next season I recommend that he stays away from Manchester United unless he wants to have a boot kicked in his face.

CNN has an article on Cyberbegging, which indicates that begging online has gotten more popular. I made my opinion on this matter be know months ago, so I'm not going to bitch about it again.

I'm out at the homested today to take care of some business. That was dealt with yesterday, so today I've just been hanging out listening to music and reading. I'm going back tonight, because I have work tomorrow and I also have to pick up a key for my new office. I received a letter Saturday informing me that I had been awarded an office where I can work on my thesis. I haven't checked it out yet, but I'll probably swing by tomorrow and drag my old computer up there as soon as possible. Maybe an office without a television, PS2, stereo, and phone is what I need to finally get cracking on this source of constant guilt. It's worth a shot anyway.