I was reading the Coca-Cola annual report tonight. What was most interesting to me was the partial list of all the brands they have worldwide.

* Diet Pop. Now that is marketing magic. Ditto 187168. * Bimbo Break. I guess we know the target market for that one. * Diet Almdudler, Drim, Tuborg Squash. Now don’t those sound refreshing? * Beat, Burn, Hit, Shock, and Slap. For the masochists in the crowd. * I knew about Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb, but did you know about their buddies Disney Winnie the Pooh, Fraser & Neave, Master Chill, Master Pour, Mickey Mouse, Pepe Rico, the Pocket Dr., the Robinson Brothers, Samantha, and the Thextons? * Chivalry and Neverfail sound very uplifting. * Combine Ripe N Ready and Love Body, which via a Wink, leads to an Urge, and then Joy – but don’t forget Safety First. * Chaudfontaine, Diet Inka Kola, Guarana Jesus, Jurassic Well, Sparletta Iron Brew, Water Salad. No idea what these are, but I’d buy a can of any of them in a second.

Installed James Seng’s blog: Bayesian filter for MT tonight to deal with the increasing flow of comment spam. Decided to try this solution because it intrigued me, and because mt-blacklist seemed like a pain to install. We’ll see how it goes.

Senators are really good at stock-picking – nice find from Raymond Chen. As the comments point out, the causality here is not totally clear. Though a strong suggestion that Senators benefit from their position.

Now I thought that Presidents put all their assets into trust when they were elected – should not US Senators do the same?

BuckeyePlanet - All things Ohio State

Pointer to PPT by the CEO of Northern Light – good articulation of the needs for the future – certainly suggests that Google won’t be the last great new company in the search space.

Good list of basic principles for network markets.

I am tired of fighting spam. I have 4 different spam filters installed on email, they catch 99% of it, but it is still a pain to keep the filters up to date, check for false positives, etc.

So I decided Wednesday to quit fighting. I am just going to totally surrender to spam and take advantage of all these great opportunities in my inbox.

This is going to take some money. So first I took out 2 loans, and consolidated my existing debt to get my payments down. Nice little seed of cash flow. 3 spam down, and I have a nice little nest egg to work with.

But I really need to grow that money. So I took 1/3rd to an offshore casino – 1 cent slots with million dollar jackpots! And I invested 1/3rd in US Government Tax Certificates, whatever they are – 50% returns guaranteed! And then sent the last third to poor Mrs Mariam Abacha in Nigeria. From this last deal alone I’ll make $8M dollars! 6 spam down.

First off, I am going to focus on personal growth. I’m going to pick up that PhD I’ve been wanting – apparently I don’t need to deal with any annoying classes or thesis. I’ve signed up for that Sales training course. I’m going to stop smoking. I’m getting stars named after me and my whole family. And I’m promoting my blog, on two different services. 12 spam down.

After all this self improvement, I deserve a break. I’ve signed up for two vacations – a free weekend at a resort, and a cheap flight to Europe. I’m getting free cable tv installed. I just got a great price on Adobe Photoshop. I’ve signed up for an extended warranty on my car. 17 spam down.

But after all this selfish focus and rampant consumerism, I am filled with self-loathing. I’ve started smoking again, so I am going to pick up cigarettes for cheap by the carton. I buy two banned CDs the government doesn’t want me to see. I visit a great porn site, delivered privately to my home. 21 spam down.

My short dive into the seedier side has cleansed me – I am going to pursue a purer life with renewed enthusiasm. What has really been missing is love. I’ll accept offers for 3 different blind dates that apparently have been set up for me. I am quite optimistic, I order viagra online from 18 different services! And I order one batch of size enhancement pills. 43 spam down.

I’m headed out for a big evening. Quickly now, before I run – scan my PC for bugs and spyware that may have entered my system after opening all this spam. And then open 6 email worms so I can keep the email flow going for all of you.

All 50 spam dealt with. It really wasn’t that bad.

* My number one source of Google hits is “omarosa”. Based on one blog entry on my site. * Heidi Bressler seems to have purchased the “Omarosa” keyword on Google. * Omarosa of course has her own website. * Of course a million blogs covering – here’s one.

Note to self – add this to Newsgator sub list

Now this is one I might actually carry – emergent report : gadgets/general/swissarmyusbflash.html – tho now they have created the first USB dongle that will cause you to commit a felony if you carry it on a plane.

Nokia’s Lifeblog, Microsoft’s Sensecam, Gordon Bell’s MyLifeBits, some CMU students blogging a lot of the activity – lots of early thinking happening about recording your entire life. And a couple thousand startups focused on the most trivial first implementation, moblogs. I don’t see that many companies focused on the longer term vision tho.

Way cool – The house-building robot - Engadget - www.engadget.com – I’ve been excited about the work going on with desktop rapid prototyping machines, here is the idea on a whole different scale.

As always, David Stutz is a good read – The Synthesist - commodity_software. Thanks to Emergent Report where I first saw this link.

Tong Family Blog: Disk Drive recommendations – a good overview. I have the little brother of the 10,000 RPM SATA drive rich mentions and i’ve been very happy with it, it has a material impact on system speed.

Greg Reinacker’s Weblog - Business on the Golf Course – truly amazing, the XBOX as a business tool. Heck with golf; who wants to play Call of Duty and talk business?