Komt mijn dochter Brecht (4) binnen met een grote glimlach en een schaar in hand. Of ze zo ook mooi is...

Ik kon niet anders dan lachen toen ik haar goudgele lokken op de grond zag liggen.

Ik begrijp KPN niet. Ze maken de mooiste reclame campagnes van Nederland, melken het precies ver genoeg uit. Neem bijvoorbeeld de goedemoggel campagne; een hit over heel Nederland!

En toen deze net niet meer kon, werd hij van de buis gehaald. Maar na een paar maanden -precies op tijd- gewoon versie twee:

Ook andere uitingen van KPN zijn altijd goed. Zo rijden er duizenden autos rond van KPN met campagne teksten, hebben ze mooie namen voor diensten ("flexibel") en weet men gewoon al jaren hoe men B2B en B2C marketing moet bedrijven: echte marketeers met verstand!

Wat ik dan niet begrijp is dat er schijnbaar sub afdelingkjes zijn die zelf autonoom wat mogen aankloten in de marge. En dan krijg je dus dit soort advertenties online:

(adwords op Google)

en

(reclame op Amazon)

en op duizenden andere plekken vond je en week of twee geleden anti reclames tegen KPN, want zo zal de gemiddelde cosument het zien. Negatieve reclames worden geassocieerd met de aanbieder, niet met de concurrent.

De iPhone is een fantastisch apparaat, dat kan je niet afzeiken. Als je dat wel doet, dan plas je tegen de wind in terwijl je probeert te mikken op de digital bohemian. Twee keer dom, toppers moet je niet afzeiken, ze bepalen de maat en opmaat. En tegen de wind in plassen, dat maakt dat je raar gaat ruiken (heb ik me laten vertellen :-) )

Dus KPN, niet huilebalken dat je de geweldige iPhone deal niet hebt gekregen, maar gewoon goede dingen doen.

Over at twitter.start4all.com you can find lots and lots of relevant twitter links, API's uses, media coverage and other relevant links like this mashup of my timeline.

And you can find a list with "famous twitter people" in different countries. And guess what?

Yes, all famous people... and me

It seems that Google is -more or less- 10 years old. To celebrate this, they have a timeline (more on that later ) and a project to do good; 10^100. Drupal.org was just around the corner, I registerd it in later 2001 it seems:

krokodil-boerland-home:~ bert$ whois drupal.org | grep -i created
Created On:26-Apr-2001 11:42:11 UTC

But the real drupal site was drop.org (after "dorp" -village in Dutch- as the myth goes) and it 2001 it looked like this. Yes we needed a redesign back then as well

Google also has the Search 2001 site up, where you can -ego- surf and find results from 2001. Try drupal, the results are from January 2001. The first hit is an article on the PHPNuke site. Yek... I actually used that before switching to Drupal in those days. 5 pages of Drupal hits, 5! And most of them porn. Now you will find a lot more and more relevant hits (Results 1 - 10 of about 22,100,000 for drupal).

Looking back is fun. Some things you can laugh at retrospective, some things you can learn from. For example, the mission statement at that time was:

To develop a leading edge open-source content management system that implements the latest thinking in community publishing, knowledge management, and software design. We value flexibility, simplicity, and utility in our product; teamwork, innovation, and openness in our community; and modularity, extensibility and maintainability in our code.

Long as it might be, it was exact to the point and right, better then our mission. And I hereby plea to let it be our mission again!

Over at consumerist is some bad press on Drupal

GoDaddy demanded $6,579 from Adam Fendelman after his disk usage skyrocketed to over 250 GB without warning, vastly exceeding his account's 150 GB allowance. GoDaddy's security department launched a "full-scale investigation" and quickly determined that Adam was responsible for both the data binge and the extraordinary bill. Adam refused to let the matter drop...

The massive data splurge was apparently caused by a bug in the widely-used open source website management software Drupal, which, like a cancerous tumor, was unstoppably copying thousands of temporary files into Adam's account.

Short story: someone used lots of local disk space on godaddy's hosting service caused by a bug in Drupal? Apart from the fact that GoDaddy should have set a quota, should have had procedures and transparent billing / monitoring mechanisms, Drupal a "cancerous tumour"?

Anyone knows what was happening here? Is GoDaddy blaming Drupal and why? Core? Module? I sure as hell /never/ saw Drupal eat 250GB harddisk space and I would like to know what was happening and if it has nothing to do with Drupal- as would be the case I think- that this news should be corrected ASAP.

BTW: 100GB of storage is 6.000 Dollar over at GoDaddy? Another reason to stay away from GoDaddy like "the plague"!