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I just realised the poster of certain self-promoting comments could be Daniel Haigh, 27-year-old “BRW Young Rich List” Internet entrepeneur. The meegos.com whois record points almost directly at his Bondi Junction doorstep ($2.3 million buys you a house and a domain name, apparently), so this would come as little surprise. Also, Haigh is more likely to brag about his fortune than Heysen, since Haigh made the lions share of profits from the Soulmates / match.com deal with Ticketek ($15 million of the $42 million deal).

Still - would one of the richest young people in Australia waste their time posting on my site? Surely they’d be too busy waterskiing or paragliding or going on decade-long sex-tours of third world countries?

Possibly a little less afraid than I ought to be, I searched google groups to see if anyone from 3hgroup has ever had a problem with their Microsoft-only software. Lo and behold! The newsgroups are full of questions from one Samuel Goldenbaum (see his bio on this page). Sam is so proficient at “architecting n-tier web applications” that he has to ask:

Hi All

I have a images directory: www.website1.com/images/
The website is hosted in country A but the majority of users are in country
B. My problem is image related. I want the users in country B to access the
website in country A, but pull images from a server in country B.

If I change the content location of the images directory on server A to
redirect to a URL on another server (server B), will the client pull the
content directly from the redirected URL (server B) or will the content be
pulled to server A then delivered to the client.

Thanks,

S

So he wants to know, in essence, how he can serve images from a different server through his website. Word to the wise, Sam - change the fucking URL.

This is becoming quite enjoyable. I think I just found my winter hobby.

A recent slashdot article links to a critique of astroturfing, mostly regarding linux. However, it’s disturbingly relevant given recent events on my own website.

The Internet has levelled the playing field - now the idea of consulting a third-party opinion about technical matters has gained relevance, and consumers (and decision makers - but is there a difference anymore?) have become sophisticated about their choices. These days it’s necessary for corporations to shroud themselves in a variety of supposedly independent identities in order to spread their message without banging their heads against the brick wall of consumer cynicism.

So what can we do? Evolve. Reject their backwards ideas of consumer-based economies, because the people telling you to consume are doing so only because it benefits their own ends - yes, even the governments. How can the citizens of the USA live in a country whose president actually has to be a billionaire before standing a chance of becoming elected, and believe that their government is independant of the influence of commercial entities?

My message to the corporations and corporate governments of the world: fuck you you fucking assholes, I hate you so much.

That is all.

Yes, I am really fucking drunk - what of it?

The blue stripes  are cool

And one person on the ‘net paid for it. Nice.

No wonder I’m the first non-official result on Google - they only have 291 results in _total_. As a comparison, defenestration has 27,000. So throwing someone out a window is a hundred times more popular than meegos. Huzzah!

In the next post down, you can see that meegos has some pretty harsh words for me:

you are so off the mark my friend….but its funny to listen to and watch… just let me know if you would like updates in the future..P.S. your obviously an extremely dedicated employee, your posts are all done from your apparent work ! your messages also scream of someone with way too much time on there hands…

Yeah, I’m pretty far off the mark with my assertions about you working for 3hgroup considering all your comments come from their intranet.

Good grief, how stupid do you think I am?

I don’t really have a lot of time on my hands, but I’m having so much fun it’s hard to stop. Besides, I worked ’til 2am last night, and the night before - work owes me this

update!

Meegos has commented on the original post - this time with just a link to a Sydney Morning Herald article that talks about how much Dave Heysen sold Soulmates for. Jeez - sensitive much?

My response, to save typing:

Ok, this is just awesome, just AWESOME. I was browsing the logs and saw that Dave had just posted - hi Dave!

a) meego just confirmed that he’s Dave Heysen (or someone who knows him) by posting a link bragging about how he sold Soulmates for $23 million
b) Someone who just made $23 million still finds it necessary to brag about it on a blog noone reads - self esteem issues Dave?
c) I never said Soulmates / match.com went nowhere - I _knew_ it was sold for a packet. I still contend that TVMates was a dismal flop, considering the anecdotal evidence that www.tvmates.com is a spam site, and nothing’s been mentioned of it since the trial press release circa 2000.
d) You’re still pretending to be “meegos”? Give it up, dude!

This is so going on the front page.

Wheee!