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My girlfriend (yes, I have a job and a girlfriend - I should be on TV!) has made a meego.

Nice blue stripes, baby!

This will be my last meegos-related post - frankly, I’m bored by it all. But on a final note, 3hgroup have started checking my site on the weekend - 12:15pm Sunday, and then again at their usual time, 10am this morning.

Oh, and I saw a small article about Daniel Haigh in the Age Sunday Review (or whatever it’s called). I was surprisingly on-the-money with my sex-tours comment, except for the part about sex (I think). He travels a lot. So we have something in common!

I would hesitate to call him an Internet Whiz-Kid though - the horribly unprotected server that connects to his Intranet is evidence enough of that. More like right-place, right-time.

This afternoon, 3hgroup had a meeting about my site. They sat in the boardroom and discussed my pissant blog. Between 3 and 5pm Australian Eastern Standard time, they viewed the Meegos page alone at least 7 times, god knows how many times they actually viewed it given the likelihood that it’s cached by the IIS proxy running on their Windows 2003 Server (which they utterly failed to firewall).

They also viewed the main page at least ten times. Jeez - my blog doesn’t change that often guys, give it a rest!

For those just joining us, 3hgroup started astroturfing their lame Meegos product on my site, pretending to be a “passionate fan” and insulting my intelligence (not to mention implying I’m unemployed), then openly praised themselves as another fake user. When I told them I was onto them, they insisted I was off the mark, but of course they haven’t posted since I proved they were full of shit.

I have never had so much fun online.

Oh and another thing - my meegos page is starting to get a serious amount of traffic.

Daniel Haigh arrived early for work this morning, and the first thing he did was read my site. 8:28am - even millionaires have to get up early sometimes.

Sweet.

I wonder if 3hgroup still think astroturfing my blog was a good idea?

And a big thanks to Liz, who writes:

I was goin 2 go and get meegos but nw i starting 2 think its not such a good idea

Starting to think is one of the most rewarding things you’ll ever do, Liz.

According to my logs, 3hgroup now regularly checks my blog at 10 or 11am, daily - single-handedly increasing the traffic on my site by 25%.

The things you have to do to get a regular audience…

I am now the top non-official result (3rd result) on google when you search for 3hgroup. So here now we have a company that produces a single product that sucks, and anyone who wants to know anything about them or their product will see me as the number-one third-party resource.

Surreal.

Hi all, I just thought I’d let the world know that I’ve got 7 gmail invitations left to give away, and I’ve run out of people to give them to. So if anyone out there wants a gmail invitation, contact me at goldsounds[nospam]@[nospam]gmail.com, obviously without the “nospam” bits.

Despite the ongoing security debate, it’s a very interesting study in how to make a responsive web application. Gmail really is incredible technology.

update: Sorry to everyone who didn’t get a gmail account - there’s none left!