Blogging and the future

I was driving to Pappasitos with someone very special to me and I realized that I have been blogging since before it went BIG on the Internet. Don't believe me...try going here: http://www.geocities.com/Genghis1227. If you go to My Links > Archives you will find a bunch of articles I wrote in the past...so it brings me to why am I complaining about this... I made a pretty successful attempt to create a larger based community when PromoteLiberty.org went with PostNuke but the hosting server crashed without a backup. I was pissed...who knows, my site could have been the myspace of the political realm (I can only dream.)

Nevertheless...I chose Myspace/Blogger to start blogging again...here I can keep up with friends and not worry about the webhosting bit. Maybe in the future I can make another "revolutionary" attempt on the web. Right now I will settle to rant & rave about issues.

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Notable Quotes:

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald Ford

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it. - James Brown

Don't be attracted to easy paths because the paths that make your feet bleed are the only way to get ahead in life. - Saddam Hussein

Bill Gates gets 4 million emails per day, most of it spam!

2.9 million is the number of spam messages Gates gets every day.

2,778 is the number of emails Gates gets every minute.

2,033 the number of spams Gates gets every minute.

10,000 - Gates is the recipient of more than one out of every 10,000 emails sent by anybody anywhere in the world.

34 days is how long it would take Bill to download a day's worth of spam to Outlook, if it (generously) took just one second per message.

22 weeks is how long it would take Bill, working solidly without breaks, to manually delete one day's spam.

458 is the number of people, working 8-hour shifts, Bill would need to hire to delete that spam manually each day.

1.2 terabytes is the disk space needed to store a month of Bill's spam.

460 gigabytes is the disk space needed to store all of Bill's non-spam email, given the company's alleged 30-day email retention policy.

Bill Gates' inbox, by numbers