follow the money

politics

might be tricky in this case

burn that oil, burn it!

economy politics technology


The boom was driven by record truck sales, which increased 69 percent. Chevrolet's Silverado full-size pickup led the industry as its sales more than doubled, GM said.

"We see this as an indication that America's desire for trucks and SUVs is still a strong force in the marketplace," GM vice president of marketing Mark LaNeve said.

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sure, that’s we need right now: More SUVs and big trucks.

Great consumers, not the smartest workers though.

gmaps II

daily life

venetian cementary

more google maps

google

containers in Hamburgs harbor

Munich Olympic Stadium

daily life

built for the 1972 Olympics

On the right you can find a Car factory, probably the only visible corporate logo in google maps:
BMW museum

BlogsNow view on the Zeitgeist

BlogsNow

Just added six more views to BlogsNow. Most of the Version 1 views are back now.
And then some.
see for your self

games

daily life media

Violence in games is a good thing is the title. And it is written by a person who went to Columbine.
This get’s people to read it. I don’t see an satisfactory argument for the claim of the title in the text. But it illustrates a couple of aspects about gaming. And that makes it worth the read: Games are what is surrounding young people. If you grew up a while ago like me you have no idea what that really means.

if in Germany

google

if you are in a different country, then google really really wants to show your their localized version. Which has different search results and, for my purposes, pretty much does suck.

Adib< /a> pointed me a while back to this fix: http://www.google.com/ncr will fix the problem and let’s me use google.com even if I am not in dot-com-land. Phew.

since Gore invented it,

history internet politics

Bush likes to keep it

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.

glitch #1

BlogsNow

4:20 this morning. The computer that runs BlogsNow freezes.
Not the first time, but it was doing ok in the last 2 months.
Tricky problem to fix: The error frequncy is so low that you would know after a year or two if a change fixed the issue or if you just were lucky. Sigh.

Good thing: mysql and it’s wonderful mysqlcheck auto repair.

Does in minutes what took days on the old server.