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Daily Archives: August 25, 2006
Youlten Yellow
After chatting to Andy yesterday (who was enthusiasing again over Confluence) he mentioned that a company called Yellowikis were being threatened with legal action by Yell.com. And what do you know, but I met Paul Youlten (Yellowikis) at Socialtext’s ‘Wiki Wednesday‘ back in the heady days of February (thanks to Socialtext’s Ross Mayfield).
Paul struck me as a bullish guy (then sporting a check shirt) who didn’t take shit from anyone, so looks like an interesting battle ahead.
Dance like an egyptian
Did you know that the Sarasani, oldest coffee shop (which has helped to control drug-related harm) in the Netherlands, is in Utrecht?
That Eagle Bill Amato, the guy who promoted the harm-reducing vapouriser, died just last year? (I’m pretty sure I met the guy, though you never know)..
PS: Napoleon’s troops brought cannabis use back to Europe after invading Eygpt way back in the day. It was reportedly an Egyptian delegate at some international drug conference around 1906 or some such date who lobbied for cannabis to be criminalised, along with the rest.
Photo by Stuart Glendinning Hall
Altavista vs Google
Sorry to be (once again) working against the popular trend but has anyone else noticed that Altavista is a rival search engine to Google!? It’s only based on two experiements, & don’t get me wrong, I’m not an expert, just a ‘user’. First experiement, typed in my full name and compared the results. Second experiment, typed in ‘Caroline Celico’ and looked in images for results. 
On the first test Altavista found pages on me (including the odd ones) which Google did not. On the second Altavista found the getty images of the wedding to Kaka, which Google did not.
Then again (nice phrase that) when I entered my full name in both and searched under images, ‘AV’ came up with a big fat ’0′ while Google found results from my blog. (And most visitors to my blog come via Google).
It’s all kind of amusing when I think that Altavista was the top dog back in 1997, until I was seduced a couple of years later by peer-pressure to go-with-Google. Sorry, it’s my fault for rely on just one search, so I’m using Altavista again – at least as a cross-check vs the almighty Google. 
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