So this is my first "on this day next year post".

December 25th, 2003

It has been a very interesting year: the most important thing is that somehow the world managed to prevent yet another war in Iraq and there is a little more peace everywhere now.

The new Yahoo-Inktomi search engine has created an alternative to Google and we have seen many new services in search technology sparked by this new competition (one year ago almost 90% of the search engine traffic was managed by Google, believe it or not it was almost a monopoly).

A lot of old and new friends have introduced new and exciting products (Radio 9 rocks!), making everybody's life a little easier and making the web a far more interesting and open space to explore. Our own k-collector system is doing fairly well.

Everybody is in good health, after a few months some friends have dropped their strange "only this and that" diets, they might have gained a few pounds back but they are enjoying their life.

WiFi had become ubiquitous, I'm posting this message from my PowerBook right in the middle of a square and I have plenty of bandwidth to play with... I guess that I will jump on the new Jet Segway that I found under my Christmas tree and fly home.

One year ago: Unlike many other respected webloggers, I cannot post a "on this day one year ago" message since I opened this weblog in March '02.

So this is my first "on this day next year post".