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iGoogle Has Finally Set Its Mind on a Holiday Theme

It started feeling like an X-Files episode appearing and disappearing like that

Dec 19, 2007 09:33 GMT  ·  By
That's where you'll find it
   That's where you'll find it

The Google people in charge with the themes for their iGoogle page must have lived after a different calendar than the rest of us. They showed us short previews of the winter theme, and then they withdrew it, they had galleries that showed us all sorts of things and then they closed them down and there would still be no announcement about what everybody deserved, a holiday theme that would lay our worries to sleep. Or at least to be there and look pretty while we do that ourselves.

The new theme is the one I showed you a print screen of last week, except that it dropped most of the furry little animals that roamed through the snow. It's going to be a sad Christmas and New Year for them, being stars one day and being thrown out the back door the next. They must be heartless over at the Mountain View based company.

Personally, I am able to see the theme right now, but for those that still can't, if any, here's the code that should reset this theme to be the default one, courtesy of Ionut Alex. Chitu and his googlesystem.blogspot.com:

code
javascript:_dlsetp('preview_skin=skins/holidayvillage.xml');
The description of the theme is "watch the snowflakes fall and the lights twinkle in this cozy and quaint alpine village." Not much to talk about here, the cartoon-ish approach being in my opinion the right way to go about it, it's a nice contrast between the blue that's all around and the red, purple and green houses.

I'm just sad about the snowman that's lonely in a corner and nobody ever goes to play with it. On the other hand, I don't know what one might play with a snowman, it could tease it with a torch, but other than that, I'm not sure there's anything. In fact, that's about the whole point of the Holidays, similar to the snowman. It's fun when you built it, but after that, except for standing there and eventually melting? The holidays are always fun when you're little and you play all day long and wait for Santa, but later on, when Santa is waiting for you to provide him with gifts? it just gets to be some quality time spent with family and friends, no more thrill and emotions there.