What My Browser Has Learned From Me

A simple exercise tonight, since I’m feeling particularly simple myself.

I use Chrome as my primary browser (I’ll use IE for certain things that just don’t seem to display or print correctly in other browsers) and it’s pretty good at anticipating what my most used sites are. So what site does it first expect that I want to go to when I type in each letter of the alphabet?

A – aa.com (guess what airline we fly between LAX and ORF on a regular basis)

B – boingboing.net (where else are you going to find a kangaroo/wombat love story, a Daily Mail article about a Klingon bat’leth being seized in England, and an expose on waste in the Pentagon’s $400B annual budget?)

C – cnn.com (it’s not news that I’m a news junkie – blame the US Naval Academy)

D – dictionary.com (makes sense, I’m writing a lot these days)

E – epguides.com (a wonderful site that not a lot of folks know about, contains episode and air date and synopsis information for just about every show ever shown on television)

F – flightaware.com (you don’t have to be a pilot to love this, great if you’re travelling or going to pick up a traveler at the airport and you need to know if the plane’s on time)

G – google.com (duh!)

H – http://www.hollywoodreporter.com (I have absolutely nothing to do with “the industry” and can’t even conceive of them throwing enough money at me to ever change that, but I do like to keep tabs on what’s going on)

I – imdb.com (for every time you say, “What movie/show/actor/actress was that…”)

J – jeopardy.com (someday Ken Jennings’ earnings records will be mine!)

K – kickstarter.org (there’s some neat stuff there, as I pointed out here)

L – latimes.com (see “c”, above)

M – maps.google.com (when you need to know where there is and how to get to there from here)

N – http://www.nytimes.com (see “c” and “l”, above)

O – http://www.orbitbooks.net (because, like, duh, BOOKS!)

P – pauljwillett.wordpress.com (for some reason I was surprised by this, probably proving that I’m more fried than I think today)

Q – quickbooks.intuit.com (my day job has been as an accountant & corporate controller for several decades)

R – http://www.random.org (because of the Flash Fiction challenges, no doubt)

S – spaceflightnow.com (because I’ve been a space cadet for over fifty years)

T – terribleminds.com (Chuck Wendig’s blog, to which I’m a little bit addicted)

U – urbandictionary.com (I learn the most interesting and occasionally disgusting terms and phrases here)

V – http://www.vsha.org (recently applied for a job there)

W – http://www.wikipedia.org (all right, makes sense, but I was actually expecting it to be whatever.scalzi.com, John Scalzi’s blog, to which I’m a LOT addicted)

X – xkcd.com (without a doubt the best webcomic ever – if you haven’t read it, go spend about eight hours doing so instantly, if not sooner)

Y – youtube.com (because cat videos!)

Z – zillow.com (because I want to know if I’m ever going to be able to sell my house without taking a bath financially)