April 17, 2006 
Well I'll stick around for a while at least, but a couple of posts I wrote just before the weekend are gone, disappeared due to the WordPress issues we experienced the last days. Nothing bad to Matt or anybody else at WordPress, they've been working whole weekend trying to fix things and it seems like it worked for most of the WordPress users.
There was the welcome to Niall Kennedy, happy to have him on board at Microsoft working on Windows Live. I wrote some crap about crap, or better Craprr (kudos to Tom, Miel & Jason) and then I asked myself "Is it just me or is everything shit" which also is the new book I'm reading and that's worth reading, here's a fragment:
Geographically inaccurate racism
At school, pop sensation Darius would get called 'Saddam'. In fact, his father is Iranian – only one letter and one very long war away from accuracy. Radio One Asian DJ Nihal once got sent a charming picture with words 'Go back to India' written on with an arrow pointing to the Indian in the picture. The picture, carefully snipped from a magazine, portrayed a Peruvian Indian.If people do have to be racist, do they also need to be so droolingly braindead that they can't tell which ethnic group they are rabidly insulting? Maybe they should make special racist maps.
If that ain't an idea for a maps mashup :-)
I always really enjoy it while visiting advertising sites like 
Fifteen years after my first visit to Russia I returned to Moscow last week. Back then it was for pleasure, this time it was for business. And clearly not only the reason why has changed, also the city of Moscow itself has changed a whole lot. In Moscow they are really picking up the pace and as usual, when markets start picking up, they do it fast and skip a few stages compared to the track Western countries followed. When seeing only Volga, Lada, … in the early nineties, you still see those cars driving around, but now mixed with Mercedes, Volkswagen, Ford, … and even Porsches Cayenne and other fancy luxury cars.
