Today is Jorge Luis Borges's 112th Birthday and is being honored with a Google Doodle. He was an was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. It was at the age of 9 that Jorge Luis Borges translated 'The Happy Prince' by Oscar Wilde into Spanish. His most famous books, Ficciones and The Aleph, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, animals, fictional writers, religion and God. The Google Doodle shows him standing on top of a complex of buildings looking through complex imagery from which is carved out the Google logo. much like his stories and thoughts. Scholars also have suggested that Borges's progressive blindness helped him to create innovative literary symbols through imagination. Knowing his background helps to understand the doodle better and it must be said that a lot of thought and understanding has gone into this Google Doodle. He never won the Nobel prize but he is remembered and now known but a lot more people thanks to the doodle.
With the new Facebook Timeline comes added features such as your friends ability to see all your past activity, the stuff you might have hidden for so long. Another problem with the new Facebook Timeline is that if you have previous chosen to hide all 'Like' activities. That has been removed and all you 'Like' activity on Facebook shows up on your Timeline. This is a boon for websites like ours. Since the more likes we get the more popular we are going to become. Anyways back to the topic. Now if you have something you can see on your Timeline that you do not want to be seeing there. You can get rid of it immediately and not have to worry about it again. How to hide or remove any post from your timeline - maybe an embarrassing photo, video or status update 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on your name which should bring-up your Facebook Timeline. 3. Hover over the right-hand corner of any post, update, image, video and you should ge...
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