The Internet giant Google continues to fascinate the world in a way that only they can. Google sometimes replace their original logo from time to time with another variation of it. For holiday logos etc: See examples here.

Recently Google have used 2 logos that look a bit different. Google updated their Twitter profile Sept 4´th with a cryptic tweet: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19. They linked that tweet to a twitpic page displaying the logo with the UFO abducting the O (Image below). If you replace that cryptic code with letters (a=1, b=2 etc) you will find that the message is “all your o are belong to us“. This will of course make you think about “all your base are belong to us” which was a hype like 9 years ago or so. In short: The phrase is a line of subtitled dialogue from the introduction to the video game Zero Wing. It is actually still funny even though it´s really old. 

Sept 5

Sept 15

So here is my comment to all of this: OOOOO^

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I have a new project going on together with my mother.
It is a project called Marie Mandrifolie. It has to do with russian history and is related to what happened to the last family of the russian Czar. If you know the subject then you could guess that the key person is Maria Nikolaevna.

It is way to early to tell what it is all about but if you are interested in the subject please subscribe to the newsletter found at the project site.

Link to the site: The Marie Mandrifolie Project.

I found a great video with Matt Cutt´s doing some site reviews. It´s kind of a long video so you might need a cup of coffee for this.
Most likely you already have found his blog but in cased you missed it I would recommend visiting his site over at: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/.

You can find more videos from Google Code at Youtube.

I was wondering how I automaticly can feed my latest blog posts to my Twitter status updates. A lot of people manually post their latest blog updates from their Twitter account. How about doing it automaticly ey? It turns out that it´s not to hard.

There are two good services I found which you can use for this. (Or create a script yourself, not the worth the effort I guess?)

• Twitterfeed.com – A good an easy to setup service. This service uses login via Open ID. Once you login you will be directed to Twitter. There you will have to give twitterfeed access to your Twitter account. Once this is setup you will be able to choose from a lot of options on how to setup your twitterfeed account. You can use this service for any feed it seems like. This works with more then just Wordpress blogs.

Twitterfeed

• Twitter Tools – With this one you have the option if you want to send your blog post to Twitter as you post in Wordpress. This is great if some of your posts are non-twitter friendly or if you simply don´t want to post certain posts to Twitter for some reason.

Ok all set. Everything is ready for me to transfer this blog to a new web host and on the way repairing this half broken Wordpress installation. The web host that I am using now is just way to slow.

Before the summer I will be able to start bloging more frequently. I figured that this is actually a lot more fun when everything else is in order. I managed to fix a lot of things regarding my own company and my income. So now I will have more time for fun stuff. Like blogging and other more social (well social on the Internet) activities.

Ok, here is the short story. One of my favourite bloggers named Steve Pavlina has a Twitter account.

So, anyway. I decided to challenge him.
He wrote:

 You’re always free to stop whining, let it go, and move on.

For some reason I decided just to challenge him a bit and I wrote a reply to him on twitter:

 If everyone was a leader.. nobody would follow you.. meaning you would have no income. suck on that lollipop for a while 1111

(hoping he would notice my 11:11 article where I linked to him with the symbolic element “snake” lollipop)

Anyway, he gave me a really good reply which makes me think that this guy is most likely not just a hyped up guru: 

 If everyone was a leader, I wouldn’t need any income.

So there you have it. I can honestly say that if you are interested in personal development and such stuff the one of my tips would be to subscribe to Steve´s blog. Enjoy!

It is actually kind of hard to impress me, but this guy managed to do that a couple of times

I found one really good site. It is called Monitter.com. It´s a site where you can monitor a bunch of Twitter keywords dynamically in real time.

Go there! I found the site via Chris Pirillo. Thanks Chris!

Btw, you can find my Twitter page here: Marcus on Twitter.

I found a new great site that sells Wordpress templates. Well, actually I rediscovered it. I bought a theme there a year ago. Even though it is not free I highly recommend you to take a look.

Check out Woo Themes Wordpress templates. Yeah, they cost a little but if you are planning on bloging a lot it is worth it.

Fresh news theme is my favourite.