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“Who’s there?”

… very long pause …

“Java.”

Best Tweet of the day, by Scott Hanselman

I’m more of a Canon guy myself, but Nikon sure has a funny ad…

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The hotel I’m staying at here in L.A. (the Roosevelt Hollywood) is great. Located directly on Hollywood Boulevard, the view from my room includes the Chinese Theater, the Kodak Theatre (site of the Oscars) and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Too bad it’s also quite far from the L.A. Convention Centre: it takes a 45 minute bus ride through dense traffic each morning to get there. Unfortunately, all hotels closer to the LACC were booked.

The hotel has free WiFi. It’s a bit slow, but it works, except for one extremely annoying thing: I can’t access a single Google site. No search, no Google Reader, no Google Docs, no Picasa, no Google Maps: nothing. It is as if these sites just don’t exist. The Live Search site on the contrary, is blindingly fast :-)

The Roosevelt Hollywood is one of the official Microsoft PDC hotels. Now if I was a bit paranoid, I would certainly start to suspect something :-)

Oh BTW: my room is on the 9th floor, which is said to be haunted by the gost of Montgomery Clift. I haven’t seen him yet…

Conan O’Brien sums up the state of the union:

- The economy went down the drain, we’re fighting 9 wars at the same time, in 21 days we’re choosing a new leader of the free world, and the #1 movie in this country is Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Kinda puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?

Just when I thought I finally figured out what Web 2.0 applications actually are, and how we can build them, I see the ad on the left starting to appear on various websites and blogs.

Luckily the step from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 appears to be a lot easier than the previous one. Magic is all it takes :-)

One question remains: does anybody actually know what Web 3.0 is? I don’t want to fall behind, you know…

…of Steve’s death are greatly exaggerated.

No way would I treat this email as one of those from Africa:-)