With a friend I started a little Ad Agency in 1990 called “Thema”.
We sold ads in computer games. Made games to promotes ads in them.
Now it would work:
pong
But now everybody is doing it.
Category: history
This is a sad day. The terror in London is on everybodies mind.
BlogsNow was written to be a fast reflector of what is going on in the world. Right now 64 out of the 100 links are related to the events in London. The top 17 links are all about it.
Here how other tools look right now:
technorati
people search allot for it, but the link list still focuses on yesterdays olympic nomination
blogdex
as usual blogdex has no clue, and it will be like this for a while
daypop
same here
BlogsNow
I wish I could have done this comparision with a more positive event.
3 hours later:
Server crashes. Again. Now I know that it is mysqlhotcopy when making a backup. While running the mysql repair I run out of disk space. All those bin-log files. Then I am stupid again and ctrl-c the repair. It would have waited for disk space. Then I tried to move the mysql data dir to another disk. Which takes some while. Then mysql does not want to start from that disk. Since I have no time for a dive into the manual I move things back and start it again. With the result that BlogsNow now shows results from 24 hours ago. Maybe I should learn something here?
Right now I like blogdex’ Version of the latest news much better. It is yesterdays. Yesterday was better than today.
OK, it’s a myth that Mr G. claimed that. But a nice myth.
Next stop for Al: reinventing TV, by prooving that viewers are not needed.
Next stop for George: Breaking the net, by brute forcing the control of the DNS root servers and then messing it all up. Finally we will have those internets that he has been talking about. Some
that work and others that don’t.
shark attacks were also dominating the news in September 1 – 10 2001.
A Terrror attack would help GWB ratings probably more than the capture of OBL.
There were neither arrests, nor were there any attacks.
Did those bad guys retire to florida?
"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens,"
this is insane. There is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
But Mr B. likes to make one. Since with 9/11 you pretty much can justify anything.
Just there is no connection between that country that event.
Nothing.
After September “the eleventh” (as Mr. B likes to call that terrible day) americans put allot of flags on their cars. Mr B. had a cool approval rating, after all he promised to ‘smoke them out’ those people that were behind the most shoking act of Terror in history.
That “War on Terror” stirred some strong emotions.
Those needed directions, so some people thought. And it worked:
When the War on Iraq started half of the people believed there were Iraqies in those planes. The war in Iraq became this part of the campaign on Terror. The former regime in Bagdhad was as bad as the one in North Korea or elsewhere in the world. Just that they had nothing to with the Terror act of Sept 2001 nor were there any real weapons of mass destrcutions that could be found.
With all this the american public would have no problem with.
As long as the US would have won the war. Officially they did so a very long time ago. Only problem is that the peace needs more soldiers and money than the war. And it’s not going anywhere.
There were always ‘milestones’ in the US view that would make things better: The hand over of sovereignity (done in a coup 24 hour before it was scheduled to dodge an onslaught of Terror) or the elections or the building of the government.
Americans like a success story. They like the winner. They were not winning in Vietnam, and they will not in Iraq.