The T-Files


Mon, 03 Jan 2005

New Year's rice cakes kill four, leave fifteen in critical condition

One of the web sites I am working for has a news headline section on its top page, and it looks like Marvin the Depressed Robot is selecting articles here. Below is today's edition (unfiltered), and I can tell you it is like that every day:

  • Newborns at lowest level for 4th year running
  • Thief shoots plastic bullet through 7-Eleven clerk's lungs
  • 4 die in house blaze in Akashi
  • New Year's rice cakes kill 4, leave 15 in critical condition
  • Policeman arrested for making girl cop an eyeful
  • Red-White contest slumps to worst ratings ever
While anyone can read the headlines, only registered members can access the full article. And who would not want to read more about these entertaining topics?

Moved into the Google Cache

Wow, Google is fast. Less than a week ago, I set up a web site that only exists in Google's cache, which at that time meant it did not exist at all. But now it is already all indexed and cached, and probably even updated once a day.