Same number, need yours

I have a new sim card with the same number, so you can contact me with my old number. But I've lost all yours! Comment here with your number; all comments are screened :-)

google.com -> google.com.ph

Oh interesting. If I add "&client=firefox" to the parameters in a Google search, it redirects me from http://www.google.com to http://www.google.com.ph. The navigation links at the top left hand side are different, as are the order of the search results.

Any value that starts with "firefox" will do. For example, these URLs pass me back to google.com.ph:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aveleh&client=firefox
http://www.google.com/search?q=aveleh&client=firefox-a
http://www.google.com/search?q=aveleh&client=firefoxgibberish

However, taking out the &client, or giving it a value that does not start with "firefox" does not perform the redirect. For instance:
http://www.google.com/search?q=aveleh&client=gibberish
http://www.google.com/search?q=aveleh&client=opera

Finally, the redirect doesn't work if I specify the country:
http://www.google.ca/search?q=aveleh&client=firefox


I wonder how it affects people in other countries? I'm guessing it will probably redirect to your country-specific Google domain.

(This all started because a search for "arno tom ponnixry" returned only results for my journal. And then we found out that searching for "aveleh" returned my journal as the fourth result in aveleh's Google search, but as the first result of mine. From there, it was a short step to me comparing both URLs for differences, and accidentally stumbling upon the auto-redirect.)

Foot mouse

It's a mouse you manipulate using your feet. Because there are better things you could be doing with your hands, after all ;-)

I wonder what a "foot trackball" would be like. Or a "foot trackpad".

A day's worth of Twitter ($6.00)

11:51:19	—	Done watching Nobuta (after two days). Now starting on Pirates of the Carribean :-)
14:03:56	—	@youlovetam Aww. Happy to oblige *sends over hot tea* (7:00 AM on a Saturday is monstrous)
14:08:53	—	@youlovetam darjeeling! I'm afraid I've never had the pleasure of having earl grey so I don't know how I could offer it to you ;-)
15:36:02	—	so sleepy. Love the movie so far, but keep falling asleep and having to rewind
16:24:34	—	Aveleh is introducing me to Moxy Fruvous!
16:35:19	—	...do I dare explore the Pownce API? (Thanks for the invite, @youlovetam)

Total: 6 tweets

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