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So, this lyrics thingy w/ Yahoo, you can pull them up directly. Say for example, you want the lyrics to the Cars classic song Drive, all you have to do is go to Yahoo Search and type "the cars drive +lyrics", and the first link that comes up is it. Now, they render the lyrics as an image, copyright stuff, but it works.

Of course I haven't blogged much about it, but the most important event of this past weekend was the French election. This weekend one of Holly's colleagues had 2 girlfriends visiting from Switzerland. Spoke to them for a while about it, of course they were very much following it. Sarkozy won, which may mean a new era in the French-US relationships, and also a more pro-EU France. Should be interesting.

Took a walk to Au Bon Pain to get a French baguette (did you know that means "small stick" in French), and prepared a great toasted serrano ham and cheese sandwich, mmh . Such a great day out, sunny and perfect. Took a few pics, I will try and post them later. Also walked to Chase, the branch on 34th and 5th has 8 (yes, eight) ATMs. There was a line of several people waiting to use an ATM, crazy, only in NYC. Not a cloud in the sky. Headed out again.

Interesting new study published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. They conducted a survey to classify Americans into different groups of technology users. They found 8% of people are deep users of participatory Web and mobile applications (the called them Omnivores within the Elite Tech Users group). They also found there is still a meaningful number of indifferent and off the network users. Check it out (PDF download). It's 65 pages long, but you can just look at the summary finding pages, where all the results are, and skim through the rest.