Background Images on Google

Here it is only Thursday and Google’s offering us some fool-around fun. Spreading slowly across the Googlesphere is the ability to change the background image on the iconic search page. See, for example, my partial illustration below, using the image of a blooming cactus from my garden, chosen for no better reason than that it happened to be in an accessible Picassa albumn. (Click on it to see the full glory.)

You can choose from among the glitzy photos or solid colours (try white) provided by Google, or you can upload pics of your own, which will be inserted into a Picassa albumn for storage.

I’ve learned one or two lessons from my brief flirtation with this time waster:

• Don’t bother. Google got it right originally.
• Don’t bother, but if you do, try for an image that’s clear and dark in the centre top (where little Reginald’s head usually is framed) otherwise the white lettering is difficult to look at.