Thing 1 and Thing 2

Thing 1 was no problem for me - I've had a Google ID for several years. However, I've never explored iGoogle so that was new. I like the theory of a personalised home page and I've tried using it for a week but I'm not convinced it's right for me. I've already personalised my browser using links so I can get to most things that I want pretty quickly, and I'm not sure how useful the other stuff, such as A joke a day, really is. Fun, yes, but not useful. However, I can see there are advantages for someone using several different machines and I did enjoy looking through the themes to choose a suitably pretty one. Here is it: