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All these tools checking if twitter is up or down are actually fake.

Now it’s up again, I wonder how long they can pull this one on people, before everyone deserts to another platform.

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First they say they’re down for maintenance, and then they say it’s an attack (maybe a DOS attack). Wonder how long and how severe it is… Hope they’ll be back soon!

I have searched Bing for a lot of terms and they all returned very relevant results, additionally, Bing is gaining a huge momentum (I hope it will be sustained) and is already stealing traffic from Google and Yahoo. I guess the latter search engines should get their act straight, or they will be binged.

I also thing that Bing is a better and easier name than Yahoo and Google.

Way to go Microsoft, and welcome back!

The Mountain, which is the maker of these T-shirts, is not very satisfied with the comments this T-shirt has gathered on Amazon. Well, my answer to them is, you should enjoy it guys, and you’ll see how silliness can end up as money in your bank account.

While you’re at it, and if you’re outsourcing your job and literally have nothing to do, check this guy’s reviews on Amazon.

I guess that there’s no such thing as bad advertisement.

Anyway, technorati is nothing more than a feed agregator, its community is shrinking, and I think Google should stop indexing it as it’s essentially indexing another search engine (with the small addition of grouping stuff by tags).

Technorati’s look & feel is also outdated by today’s standards. Can’t wait for a real competition.

I saw the videos, heard her sing, not impressed. I guess CNN and the likes don’t have real stories to report on so they create this hype and people follow (excluding, of course, the 12 year old Somali pirates being chased by destroyers).

Just to shed a light on the hypocrisy of this whole thing, one of the questions she was asked on CNN was :”Is it right you were never kissed?”, now what does that have to do with the singing? Pure hypocrisy, I tell ya!

My opinion that this whole thing is fabricated, and I have to say that I’m not alone. This, this, and this (sorry couldn’t find a third link) fully agree with me.

I expect this Media Circus will soon be over before you can say Quidditch (If it’s not than I expect women will be dressed as Susan Boyle). Joe the plumber, anyone?

I loved my previous job and I hated it, I don’t regret leaving as I had no choice. I do miss the people, my friends, the country I was in, and the opportunities I would’ve had had I stayed.

My previous job was hell, but it left something (sweet) inside of me, and, in some ways, I think it made me a better manager and a better man.

What a waste of time and money. Here’s the movie in a nutshell:

Cons

- Crazy, weak, and incomprehensible plot.
- Director must’ve been on crack or something, because the tatoo of the woman in one scene was on one cheek, a few seconds later, it was on the other, and it remained there for the rest of the movie.
- The quality of the blu-ray sucks (but doesn’t suck as much as the Stargate movie)
- You don’t even care what’s going on, you just want the damn thing to get finished, because you’re not even watching, and the sound is creating a diversion from the much more interesting conversation you’re having with your friends.
- There’s only one person from that movie that I recognized, the Interpol detective (or whatever you want to call him).
- When I said that you just don’t care what’s going on, I really meant it!

Pros

- The movie is only 90 minutes.

Unless you’re 12 and you don’t care if the movie has no plot, and directed by someone probably your age, the I suggest you move along, there’s nothing for you here.

Let’s see if websites (other than Google) will get their pagerank back. Well, someone at Google once said: “Webmasters are free to do whatever they wanted on their websites, and Google is free to do whatever it wants with its index”.

• I was over-protective of my staff.
• I never trusted my staff (no, this doesn’t conflict with point #1).
• I was over-protective of my IT stock (stupid things such as blank CDs, blank DVDs, cameras, etc…)
• I never compromised, instead, I took the lone-wolf approach (being a lone-wolf should never be the way to go for a good manager), and I isolated myself.
• I played tricks on other managers that never hurt me before, but never helped me after (thus lost a lot of support).
• I was always trying to step onto other people’s territory, instead of expanding mine (eventually I lost even my territory).

But then again, 2 things come to my mind:

• If I knew then what I know now
• If I’m back to the same job, the same position, with the same people, will I act any different?

I know for question #2 that I’ve changed, but I remember quite clearly that the environment was very harsh, so even though I’m sure I will act different, I’m not sure that I will become another person.