Time to sing "Does anybody really know what time it is?"

I got up early this morning, probably woken up by the call to prayer coming in over the loudspeaker (it's not called loud for nothing). I checked the time on my itouch and groaned. Way too early.

I got my laptop to check email and do a little surfing. Suddenly I thought I had entered a time warp. 

It seemed like an hour had vanished. (I took this picture seconds before I took the itouch screen shot.)

Well, I did what anyone would do. I googled the time. 

(Don't let the minutes fool you. I took this one first.)

Whew. Trusty Google comes through again. Or did it???

I decided to check the top six search results just to be sure. 

(Time to sing the chorus to the Chicago song "Does anybody really know what time it is?)

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Yes, it's a tie. And then our clock chimed. 

Someone must have gotten mixed up. Because tomorrow at 2 AM Daylight savings time ends here. (Ramadan is coming and for a month the clocks will be in regular time before turning back to Daylight savings time. Anyone confused yet?)

So now you may think that settles it. Except I haven't forgotten what happened here two years ago when the government postponed the fall time change 15 hours before it was scheduled to take place.    

Let's just say I'm glad I don't have a plane to catch this morning. 

And one thing I do know: it's time for some coffee.

Why Oscar Wilde would have loved the Internet age

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

Oscar Wilde

Though it is not entirely useless to learn of Inge Lehmann, the female seisologist who discovered the center of the earth.

Geography lesson courtesy of Ibis Hotels

Here's the world according to Ibis Hotels:

That's right,Morocco is part of Europe. So is Israel.

Hmmm. Is that because it didn't want to be grouped with its friendly neighbors?

If at first you don't succeed (aka evolution google-style)

The first animal Google said I was on its earth day quiz:

Shrimp? Attack, stun, and dismember?Don't think so.

The second:

Massive tentacles? Not that I know of.

The third :

A nice brain to body ratio could be nice. And camouflage comes in handy. But I'd like something prettier.

The fourth:

Success at last.

( I always answered the questions truthfully, it's just that some of them didn't have clear-cut answers for me. I guess that's how evolution works.)