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Over at my favourite blog, I enjoyed todays recipe for stir fried chicken, á la North Korea

- Build a nuclear warhead
- Trade the nuclear warhead for a chicken (remember to ask for change)
- Kill the chicken
- Stir fry it

I still have not figured out how youTube makes money, but the founders of Skype are about to launch their own offer.

[The service] has the codename The Venice Project. It will offer “near high-definition”, programmes supported by advertising, with tools for users to personalise their channels or discuss programmes with others.

[...] one person close to Warner Music confirmed it was using the service to create channels for some of its artists, including Paris Hilton

Will be interesting to see what their business model is. Near HD definetely sounds intriguing - but we have to see it first.

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The past few days I had some technical problems, but my hosting service fixed them with speed and efficency. Thank ye!

My family has been hit by a very efficient virus. First my youngest daughter caught it, throwing up 16 times in one evening. Then my next daughter followed with 13 instances. Now my wife and I are feeling not-too-fine… So yet another reason for some mild blogging downsizing.

Also, I have been drowning in comment spamming the past week, getting almost 100 boring “Cool Site. Thanks” comments a day. Reading a reminder on Douglas Karr’s blog on the plug-in Bad Behaviour, I realized that I had installed, but not activated the plug-in. That has been rectified now. A look at the statistics, though, revealed that Doug had much more success with it than me. I still get about 90 spam comments a day, and over the past few days, Bad Behaviour blocked 12 attempts.

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The database part of the server is experiencing some problems. This means that my websites are occasionally unaccessible. Apologies…

Wishing you the very best, health, success, happiness and many exciting experiences for 2007.

Happy holidays to all of you, and especially you, my dear reader.
Of late I have been noticing a lot of YouTube videos popping up in blogs, webpages, e-mails and newsletters. Videos use a lot of bandwidth. YouTube gets a lot of hits. Read the rest of this entry »