Google provides some wondrous instantaneous fabulous easy searches.
Want to see a word in several dictionary formats and REAL FAST?
Type in: [define (word)]. That’s it!
To Google any holiday. Type in: [date (holiday) 2008 (or any year)], and there will be many websites with various methods to search and display dates. Remember when you used to have to go speak in to Granny's hearing aid to find out what date Easter was going to be this year?
One calendar website that seems quite handy is www.calendardate.com
A direct link to that website’s listings of all of the holidays for the U.S in 2008 is at:
Google also is heavily promoting the use of their own online personal Calendar. It is pretty cool for keeping your schedules, appointments, family & friends birth dates, etc. I have been experimenting with it some for scheduling meetings. I consider it still in my personal Beta testing category.
I am not a big fan of sharing personal information like that with the world. So it is still experimental for me. When I can figure out how to make sure private information is TRULY private, then I might trust it more.
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