After Torsten’s post I checked out Blogpulse again and really like it. Some great features in this baby and I added a link to my profile on the main blog page. This could be taking a lot of wind out of Technorati’s sails.
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Sending Wine
Hugh from gapingvoid has started to send around more bloggie goodness, a new wine to be exact. Great stuff to get the word on a new wine out in the world. I recently had a wonderful somelier evening and really loved some of the australian wine I tasted and am actually looking forward to trying out some african ones in my trip to africa next week. Congratulations to Hugh for getting the world out on the new one he is promoting.
A Married Man
I no longer have a girl friend. I now have a wife 
Feels very good actually and we had a great day so far, which was really just the legal part. Tomorrow we will have the church part of the deal with a lot more guests to celebrate with in the evening. Packing up a few things, trying to relax. But life feels very good at the moment
We actually were married by Mr. Stommel, who is something of a famous guy at the registry office in cologne. It was a real joy and we had lots of laughs, which made the entire ceremony unforgettable. He had to make a joke about me being born in Düsseldorf (there is a bit of a fun war between düsseldorf and cologne) to start with, of course topping it off with Avonia being born in the Iran (her father was there at the time). We came out of there feeling really good about all the marriage, later learning that he is married the fourth time and at the christening of his children he dresses them up for cologne karneval so they become good cologne citizen The guy is really fun and we thank him for a great ceremony. Oh, of course we’re still feeling great about the marriage. It’s a fun feeling.
We then had a quick drink outside which
When will blogging peak?
That’s the question Jeremy asks and I agree with him that it’s potentially peaking in the not too distant future. This would be a good thing though. When on-line shopping (to take his example) was all the rage, it was still in its infancy. After the hype died down it started to really get going without the problem of hype behind it.
I think Blogging still needs a few months to really get out of the lime light but the hype will die down in 2006, which is when it will be a standard term such as eMail and will become part of our life. More and more real people are starting to ask me about blogging. That’s pretty peaking I feel. But people are starting to get it, beyond the hype, just the general idea of talking publicly. So 2006 the hype will die down, and by 2009 blogging will be really big.
Invest in Falk eSolutions AG
Want to invest in a non public company? Dirk has 40 shares of Falk eSolutions AG to sell. His post about it in german is here. €100 and I’d take one, just to have it, but I presume that’s a little low 
The Zetsches are Blogging
The project is showing it’s first fruits. Some time ago, two wonderful people came over to the
somebody playing
Organ in the dom at night
Fly Cheap Airfair Low Cheap Fly Plane
This is the kind of title that you will get (in German) when you go to dba.de. That is if you don’t have JavaScript enabled, get a JavaScript alert (because it redirects to another domain) that you don’t agree too or just have fast eyes. Otherwise you will be redirected to Flydba.de, the main site of DBA, a german cheap airline. For all those that get redirected (also on the flydba.de mainpage by the way ), here is what you would otherwise see, or a part of it:
This is so amazingly clear search engine spam and it’s even badly done search engine spam!!! I mean they are using JavaScript to redirect to the real site. They could redirect based on user agent in the backend if they wanted to, which would be a lot less transparent to the average Joe out there. While this clearly is search engine spam I might even overlook this if it were done well because they are helping me find good stuff but … a) this is Google’s job to give me the right stuff and b) I hate having stupid words in my Google search and c) boy is that bad branding and d) it’s technologically and logically badly done!
I wouldn’t have expected that from somebody as big as DBA but they probably have just been tricked. I hope.
It’s time to even the score
Today I gave myself a little gift, it being an Odyssey DFX 2-Ball Putter, and boy is this one a beauty. It’s amazingly balanced, has a very nice feel, and the two white round shapes at the top help even the brainless to shove the ball in the right direction. And Odyssey has a very good text writer on their site. Check The Beginning:
“Putting. It’s a game within a game. One with many challengers. But few masters. It’s where three feet can feel like three inches. It’s where muscle strength doesn’t matter. But mental strength does. And if you don’t control this game. This game controls you. Welcome to Odyssey. It’s time to even the score.”
Looking forward to trying this out on the next round.
Google Moon Online
Search Engine Roundtable is that Google has added NASA Imagery to Google Maps! You can take a look at moon.google.com. All the images are said to come from NASA, so please zoom in
