"ci sono pochi dubbi sul fatto che il Community Starter Kit di Microsoft sia uno strumento adatto (in teoria, non lo abbiamo provato) alla realizzazione di weblog"

"You can also use Microsoft Notepad and an FTP client to build a weblog, but that doesn't mean they were designed for that, or that it's easy to do"

It's just scary how measurable things are nowadays. Six months ago I ran some Google queries for "microsoft blogs" and "apple blogs" and "linux blogs" and blogged the results. Here is an update:

	9/23/2002	2/21/2003	% change
"microsoft blogs"	3	46	1533%
"apple blogs"	107	105	98%
"linux blogs"	522	691	132%

"L'addetto al marketing e alla comunicazione reagisce male. Mi trova vanitoso. Non faccio che parlare dei fatti miei, mentre lui avrebbe da dirmi cose così interessanti..."

"On some days, I get up thinking this will be relatively quick and we will be left with a pretty good situation afterwards. On other days, I wake up and think, `Holy sh - -.' "

1. Iraqi forces unleash their chemical or biological weapons arsenal.
Saddam Hussein makes a bloody last stand in Baghdad.
Iraq's oil wells are turned into fields of fire.
Saddam puts civilians in harm's way.
Terrorists acquire Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
Once Saddam is ousted, Iraq descends into chaos.

"The Federal Reserve's greatest nightmare is that OPEC will switch its international transactions from a dollar standard to a Euro standard. Iraq actually made this switch in Nov. 2000 (when the Euro was worth around 80 cents), and has actually made off like a bandit considering the dollar's steady depreciation against the Euro" (Note: the dollar declined 17% against the Euro in 2002.)

"The real reason the Bush administration wants a puppet government in Iraq - or more importantly, the reason why the corporate-military-industrial network conglomerate wants a puppet government in Iraq - is so that it will revert back to a dollar standard and stay that way." (While also hoping to veto any wider OPEC momentum towards the Euro, especially from Iran – the 2nd largest OPEC producer who is actively discussing a switch to Euros for its oil exports).

Furthermore, despite Saudi Arabia being our 'client state,' the Saudi regime appears increasingly weak/ threatened from massive civil unrest. Some analysts believe a "Saudi Revolution" might be plausible in the aftermath of an unpopular U.S. invasion of Iraq (i.e.. Iran circa 1979) (1). Undoubtedly, the Bush administration is acutely aware of these risks. Hence, the neo conservative framework entails a large and permanent military presence in the Persian Gulf region in a post-Saddam era, just in case we need to grab and secure Saudi's oil fields in the event of a Saudi coup by an anti-western group.

"Saddam sealed his fate when he decided to switch to the Euro in late 2000 (and later converted his $10 billion reserve fund at the U.N. to Euros) - at that point, another manufactured Gulf War become inevitable under Bush II. Only the most extreme circumstances could possibly stop that now and I strongly doubt anything can - short of Saddam getting replaced with a pliant regime."