Hi all

I am really sorry, we had so much snow on last Sunday and Monday that our telephone line broke…. That means, no telephone anymore at home, which is definitely not a problem, but also no DSL and Internet, which is definitely an issue!!

I have to wait till Friday that France Telecom is coming by us to repair the broken line. 6 days, that is again a cool service….

Anyway, I can imagine that they have a *lot* of other cases, and that some of them are prio.1 in comparison to our case.

Till Friday, no post :-)

Take care, Didier

[via Seth Godin]

It is about perception :-)

Today Tom Peters quotes from one of my favorite books, The Art of Possibility, “A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business. One sends back a telegram saying, SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES. The other writes back triumphantly, GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES.”

[via BetaNews]

The online user-created encyclopedia Wikipedia racked up its 1 millionth English language article on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone for a service that has faced much controversy over the years. The article covered the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland and was authored by Ewan Macdonald.

Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the project, says a total of 3.3 million articles are under development in more than 125 languages. “Although its method of editing is new and controversial, Wikipedia has already won acclaim and awards for its detailed coverage of current events, popular culture, and scientific topics; its usability; and its international community of contributors,” the Foundation said in a statement.

Wow, my blog is exactly two years old :-)

First post on….March 1, 2004!

What represents these 2 years?

• a lot of fun
• an incredible amount of exciting information found by the other bloggers
• the chance to have met “in the real world” some of my A-list bloggers, not a disappointing experience at all, which is great :-)
• a quite huge amount of time invested to post from my side, but that remains completely exciting, also after two years
• a persistent surprise that so many people find this blog interesting, but it is great to have you “on board”, quite an honor!
• Some figures now for this period (2 years):

• 711 posts (with this one)
• 3.5 mio hits
• 825’000 pageviews
• 535’000 visitors
• the first month: 158 visitors and 1’027 pageviews, last month: 65’000 visitors and 95’000 pageviews :-)

So, thank you *very much* for taking some time here, you are always welcome.