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Alternativ:

1) Die Russen kommen

2) Die Chinesen kommen

By looking a bit deeper to the activities of the FEMA I came across their website on which startpage they have a map to show where have been disasters throughout the year – nearly half of the states is covered „yellow“ in this map. FEMA gets criticsm because they finance the rebuilding of houses which have been blown/slipped away in high risk areas. In germany we have managed this through higher insurrance rates in high risk areas.

To get

behind the scenes Flickr is the best tool I know for. People are getting into discussions about the photos and they are debating. I just got to know, that Clinton after the Hurrican Andrew in 1992 reformed the FEMA, which is the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the states, in a way, that he was able to declare a land

scape as a „desaster area“ even before a hurrican really made landfall. This reform was *SO* important because of the declaration as a „disaster area“ enabled emergency funds to help people to evacuate or to better protect themselves – one major problem of Katrina /was/is that the poor weren´t able to buy gas, weren´t able to evacuate: their bodies are now lying in the sea. The Bush administration set the reforms back before the Clinton reform – they didn´t even gave instructions to where to evacuate: to moon, to mars? No joking here, but: such pictures make me sick when you know, more people could have been safed. Damn!

Fastcompany comes with a list of the top 50 business leaders of the 20th century, based on a survey of 7000 executives… Remarkable:

1) There´s only one woman (Estee lauder)

2) There are only americans (what about Akio Morita, founder of Sony?)

Don´t trust a survey you haven´t faked yourself.

8 Webcams from NewOrleans – unfortunately their server is temporarily down from time to time…

What ever happens: keep your humor!

There is a flickr photo stream showing a man, who is exposing himself to a woman – she was so very fast with her camera-phone and co

ught a brilliant picture right on his act – the comments on flickr all go in the same direction – people congrate this woman from NYC for her attention and that she reported everything to the police. Poor woman if this really happened to her – but I have a little doubt. She is saying at the very end of her comment:

The phone I used to take the picture was the Samsung P777 cellphone, it’s 1.3 megapixel so that’s why the quality is better than the average cellphone.



It makes me think, if this was just a viral marketing thing – if it was it definitely worked – the article spreads through the blogosphere like hellfire.

Dears,

I´ve been to italy recently and on my journey I found out, that the best latte macchiato doesn´t come from there, but from my kitchen at home in cologne. Today I want to share my experience in making the best latte in the world („blitw“) with you all – because the sun is shining and I´m in a good mood 🙂

The first thing is,as always, you need GOOD tools. I found out, that all the handmixers out there are just crap. The best thing is to get the milk creamy by hot high pressured steam. A wonderful machine, I won in a tombola ten years ago, is the „Philips Espresso Duo„.

The second important thing is the coffee – I´ve found a very good one at our italian food store around the corner, and it´s called „Bei & Nanini“ in the flavour „Delicato“ – it is a quite strong espresso coffee, so that you don´t need too much of it in balance to the milk.

Ill take about 1 ct l water for the steam and the coffee and about 200 ml of fresh, cold milk for a glass of „blitw“. When you are steaming the milk it is important to move the tip of the steaming thing up and down in the glass, so that all of the milk is being steamed. After that you have to switch your machine from steam- to espresso mode, and the hot water will be pressed through the coffee. It all in all takes about 2 minutes – so it´s extremely fast. It´s very important to keep your machine clean – especially the parts which are soaped with milk.

Enjoy!

Ladies and Gentleman of T-COM, welcome to the club of „the big elephants„! How can it be, that your site is build with DHTML navigation? Where are we? Back in 1995? Safari is not able to show me the navigation – I´m a technology-interested and IT-advanced person – that´s why I´m using advanced products – why don´t you want me as a customer? I can´t understand how companies of such size can make such big mistakes?!

Have you ever experienced, that your RSS Reader account is collapsing under the number of unread posts? And this is not just a question of how many feeds you have, it´s also important how frequently there are new entries. I figured out for myself that there are feeds which are updated much too often: Scoble is one of the boys I don´t want to read anymore – and Jeff is another candidate banned from my reader. Om Malik is saying today, that he in average is posting 8 post per day – I somehow „feel“ this is the maximum I want to read. In case there are more entries I don´t feel comfortable to read them all with the care, I want to read them. What´s your maximum?

Have you heard of Meetro? It´s a location based service: download your windows plugin and write in wherever you are – you´ll soon see, who is also on Meetro in your nearby. Well, Google wants to buy it (as searchengine lowdown reports) and wants to monetize it: but how? Garret supposes Google to integrate it with it´s map services in order to make money – but hey Google: ever heard of Plazes? They already have integrated GM into it and: they are running on OSX, Windows, *nix, Linux.

So why is Google on a buying trip? Aren´t they going too diversified? Now that yahoo claims to have a bigger index, shouldn´t they concentrate on their competences?

No: Google has such a big market saturation, that they have to grow – they have to get diversified in order to be on a technological edge. They just should care who they buy – and have a careful look – maybe plazes would have been a better decision to buy 🙂