An English post, for English people. My blogging frequency goes up another notch and I’m quicly approaching the 3 blogs a year border!

But enough about my blogging rituals. As some of you guys, my frequent visitors, might know, the National Novel Writing Month. The idea is fairly simple: write a 50000 words novel in less than one month. An easy challenge indeed; how hard can it be to write a fifty thousands word story?

Since last year, I only heard about it when it was half over, I decided to give it a try. Since I had completely forgotten about the weird contest, I heard the deadline started yesterday… yesterday. In other words, I’m starting on this in the purest form possible: without a storyline in my mind nor a letter on paper.

The only way to keep myself motivated to do this is to proclaim my victory here now. This way, if I succeed, nothing happens. But when I fail, I will fail you guys, my worthy visitors.

But do not dispair, I will finish this novel before the 30th of this month. I’ve blogged, therefor I will succeed. Bring it on, Novel! I can take you!

LinkedIn

19 August, 2008

I had some trouble logging into LinkedIn lately, so I contacted customer support.

This is the answer I got:

Annonieme bronnen melden dat Google een dezer dagen zijn eigen ADSL lijn zal uitbrengen. Het zou hier gaan over een erg goedkope verbinding om ook de minder bedeelden ter samenleving op het internet te krijgen. Google heeft zelfs al een naam voor zijn ADSL assortiment: de Langezame (reg. trademark) verbinding. Google heeft zijn bekende mail dienst GMail in ieder geval al uitgerust met sluikreclame (klik voor meer detail):