The two most important URL's on the Internet

Stoooopid
Is Google making us stupid?

Read them and save yourself.

Arabs

Why do I get keeping added as a contact on my Flickr stream by well-off middle-eastern types living mostly in Kuwait and the UAE ?

That's the Web 2.0 for you

Joining a "private" group on Linkedin.com (which requires membership in an equivalent "real world" institution or group) is as simple as:

• Request membership by clicking the group's icon,


• Wait until the group moderator gets your request,


• Wait until the group moderator ignores the fact he should check whether you are an actual member or not,


• Done!

The "social web" in full swing!

Predictions for prosperity

• By September 2008 (or earlier), sweet crude oil will hit US$125 per barrel on one of the main energy exchanges,
• By July 2008 (or earlier), USD will hit 0.60 (or lower) against the Euro, while Sterling will hit 1.21 or (lower) against the Euro,
  
• By September 2008 there will have been a bank run on at least one bank in the US, and possibly another in Europe,
• By December 2008 the Halifax House Price Index for the UK will have hit 580 or lower (roughly a 6% drop from the March index value).

Don't ask me why I think this to be true... I just do.

I can't get no... satisfaction... (Barcelona redux)

Some guy walks out of Blue Star, a dodgy sex-shop just in front of the hotel where I am staying... If you recognise him, please let me know the phone number for his wife.



Ain't the Internet great...

Rome is dirty

Rome must be the dirtiest city in the bloody planet, especially when elections are up. And yeah, the historical bits are clean, but that's not where people live, is it ?