I’ve been a fan of history for as long as I can remember.  I spent a number of my elementary years devouring history texts and biographies of everyone from Helen Keller to King Alfred. I can get immersed in watching the History channels and let half the day slip by.  So tonight while I was trying to get the cranial juices flowing I decided to Google “what happened today in history.” Sub-consciously I know that I have probably been here before but I don’t remember it. I’m thinking this might be a good place to get some writing prompts.

As usual however Google came through with a few sites that I am pretty sure I have never seen. A couple of them looked more like a way to sell something than a place to inspire topics for writing. A few others started throwing up popup adds and other such nonsense so they got ye old Alt-F4. This one however had a few items that led me off into Wikitopia (where you wander into a link at Wikipedia and realize an hour later you’re fourteen pages away from whatever it was that brought you there in the first place.)  Brainyhistory was another site where I lost more time than I had anticipated. It actually had a date for the year 250. On this day in 250, Saint Fabian was executed for his refusal to deny Christ.

One interesting observation struck me as I was perusing these sites, they were all mostly set to Eastern Standard Time (EST). I kept going to sites that were already providing me the “Day in History” for tomorrow. When are they going to realize there are only two time zones to select from when automating date entries in web pages?  Those two are either UTC (the time-zone formerly known as GMT) or PST.  Why PST? Because everyone knows that Silicon Valley is the centre of all things IT and besides – it’s the timezone Blizzard uses.