The Sleeper

Do you remember "The Sleeper"? A Woody Allen movie from the 70ies, one of his lesser works? It appears that Google crawlers (agent software that collects the latest online press articles from the net and reports them on a company's financials pages) picked-up some online "newspaper" this morning, Hindustan Times (?), that suffers from a similar to "Sleeper" syndrom.

Pay attention to the two HT articles, reported as A and B, that are posted this morning next to AAPL's stock performance graph of June 11th... (that's yesterday). Link to them and you see that they are "re-published" today, on June 12th, 2007 although they were originally posted on 13/09/2006 the former and on 1/3/2007 the latter. So we learn (hot from the press) that Apple will eventually launch iTV and the iPhone as well as a new mini iPod...

It seems to me that the HT editor-in-chief asked one of his younger reporters to post something on APPLE about the 2007 WWDC that commenced yesterday in St-Francisco... so the poor lad (probably missed his flight to SF) came up with no better than dig out of their grave those two articles. And of course, Google's crawlers didn't miss a thing! Cool. That's news!


Click on the captured image above for clean view. When I first read the titles I thought I missed something serious from Steve's WWDC keynote yesterday. Further inspection however led me to "what the heck is goin' on here ?!?!" and some nastier foulness. I wonder when HT will find out, if ever, about their boneheadness... They probably need to pay for some ISO consulting care...

Al Qaeda flying next to you...

The next time you find yourself on a plane, sitting next to someone who cannot resist chattering to you endlessly, I urge you to quietly pull your laptop out of your bag, carefully open the screen (ensuring the irritating person next to you can see it), and hit this link.

Silicon Valley Bloggers

I have recently discovered this anonymous geek who started a blog as the Fake Steve Jobs. Many consider him as "Steve's alter ego" cos he seems to know more that you'd expect about His Holliness.

I took a dive in his archives and... Gosh, if you really feel down, go surf his blog. It's a scream. I copied here an extract from his "Clintstones" episode, an alleged encounter between the Silicon Valley's top CEO's and VCs and the Clintons in August 2006 to raise money for Hillary's upcoming Presidential campaign:

( text towards the end of the article... after Hillary's been quite arrogant to the Valley Semi-Gods, Steve had enough and stands up to address the ambitious ex-First Lady, after she made fun of his "John Lennon" 60ies hippie glasses)

... Now I'm the one who's stunned. I mean nobody makes fun of my John Lennon glasses. Nobody. I mean, seriously. So for a long time I just sit there, staring down at my hands, and I feel like my friggin head is gonna explode or something, and Doerr, who knows how I feel about my glasses, he says, Steve, whatever you're thinking, just let it go, okay? Just let it go. But I can't help myself. I go, Lady, let me tell you something. I grew up in this Valley, OK? And nobody comes into our Valley and talks to us like this, okay? You see the guys in this room? We built the friggin Internet with our bare hands, you understand? Me personally, I've been through hell and back. I got fired from my own company. I survived cancer. Then I invented the friggin iPod. Have you heard of it? You want our money, you want to be president, well you come and ask us, nice. You kiss the ring, like everybody else. You got that straight? And by the way, have you heard of Pilates? Cause you’ve got a really big fat lumpy ass. Seriously. It's like two big balloons full of oatmeal. Scary.

Hilary sits there with smoke coming out of her ears. Beside her, I swear, Bill is kinda laughing, or trying not to laugh or whatever. The whole room is silent. Then, way down at the far end of the table, T.J. Rodgers stands up and starts doing a slow clap, all by himself. Then the others join in. Pretty soon the whole room is clapping and shouting, Steve, Steve, Steve -- except for Doerr, of course, and the cyborg VCs who are programmed to do exactly what Doerr does at all times. The Clintstones and Soros make for the door, with Doerr scrambling after them apologizing and begging them not to leave, but Hilary just says, F- you, gerbil, don't call me ever again, and throws us all the finger, but we all just roar laughing and give her the finger right back. Ha! Thanks for coming to California, lady. Come back anytime!

Seriously, dudes, do not vote for her. That's all I'm gonna say. Peace out...

Sodom and Gomorrah...

The guy is talking about Lot who is supposed to "Pitch his tents", but as the Greeks say: "Erroneous tongue will always reveal the truth", the evangelist ends up spitting out his thought by "Lot pinched his teets"... Hillarious

The Flemish get smart...

Yesterday's national polls demonstrate that Flemish politicians cannot fool around anymore with the Flemish voters. The current governing coalition between Liberals and Socialists have eventually fucked up in this election BIG TIME, following a torrent of obnoxious and childish blunders. Local media present almost daily most of the tricks of the trade that governing parties pull out of their hat to get things "done". No place to hide. Dirty politics are presented to the voters like episodes from a soap opera. The result is a strong message from the voters to the politicians: " Dudes, nobody's safe! If you think you've grown a huge dick by being elected by us in the previous term... we've got news for you: don't fuck-up or you're about to fuck-off next time over!"

That's exactly what happened yesterday. The new Christian Democrats (CD&V), confined to the opposition for eight long years, won the polls under a new strong man, Yves Leterme, big time! Not because those fockers (pardon my Irish accent) are any better from the governing Liberals... far from. It was just the reaction of the average Joe out of anger about the boneheads of the current coalition, especially those braindead Machiavellistic and populist Socialists...

Eight years ago, it was the old Christian Democrat party (CVP) who had to pay the price as governing coalition because of their incompetence in execution of government and their subsequent cover-ass tactics. The then Prime Minister, Jean Luc Dehaene (a sumo-fighter look-alike figure, used to swallowing little alive fish into his zeppelin-shaped belly for fun, riding mechanical rodeo bulls at Billie-Bob's in Fort Worth, Texas with "laat de beast go" cries) screwed up with numerous government cock-ups, among which the infamous Dioxine poultry contamination fraud that forced the entire population abandon bird meat consumption for months. Long story short, JL got what he deserved and out of government for ever. Same happened to split-front-teeth Terry Thomas look-alike Guy Verhofstadt yesterday, our current coalition Prime Minister, who in an emotional farewell appearance to the public kissed his current job good-bye and off into the market for a real job. Verhofstadt admitted full responsibility for yesterday's disastrous elections outcome (IMHO it looked more like he was admitting his own personal arrogance and incompetence, but anyways...).

So, this morning they'll start again more of the same. Negotiations among parties, kiss-ass tactics, shooting-old-mates-in-the-back tricks, and always-somebody-else's-fault cover-ass excuses.

If I had the power for a day, I'd first declare the Socialist party retarded and unfit for any future polls and I would send the VLD party President to farm roosters in Mechelen (the town he came from) and the CD&V party President (the party that won yesterday's polls) to the Vatican as a Papal Assistant (serving him tea and cosher cookies sort-of-thing).

The only good news is that our new Parlement can save some tax-payer money from engaging the necessary security agents from the kingdom of the Apes. I am hearing that two Belgian judo ex-champs were elected to this chamber of representatives... Cool! Let's see some real fights then. With points, KOs and all...