As usual all the big EDA companies were there. A lot of smaller as well. The most fun booth was the one from Synplicity that had both a bar and a magician. Here you can see him doing some magic with a rope, but he also made some card tricks and set fire to bank-notes.
It started in November and in December another previously unknown girl grabbed the top spot of the top-10 searches. This time I had heard about her at the Letterman show, but never seen her. How stupid are people. Why do they come to berka.com and search for it??? Just think how much bandwidth are wasted by the internet morons. 😛
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What a hysteria. I noticed an increase in traffic and thought that someone was spamming my search function, or maybe doing some strange DOS attack. There was way too many searches from users with IP at AOL that searched for “kobe bryant accuser” and similar searches.
I didn’t know who Kobe Bryant was, or what he had done. (I’m not following the NBA.) But now I know that he is accused of rape, and is a famous basket ball player.
How did all these people looking for information end up here at berka.com? Well, someone started, and then came the search bots, and looked at my 10-latest-searches listing, and now I am listed as number one at Google when searching for “Kobes accuser pic“. 😮
Yeah, this was fun… 
A very interesting thing happened in our top 10 list of search words. “Emma” and “Watson” were words that ranked higher than “Britney” or “Pamela” ever has. 😮
What happened was this. We show the 10 latest searches, and someone had searched for “Emma Watson nude”. Then the Google spider came by, and suddenly we were ranked number one at Google, when searching for the words “Emma Watson nude“.
This meant that every moron searching for “Emma Watson nude” at Google came to our site and couldn’t find any nude pics of Emma Watson, so they used the search function here. Finally the words “emma” and “watson” reached the top ten search words.
For how long will this traffic continue?
Who the #¤%& is Emma Watson?
She is an actress from the Harry Potter movies. 🙄
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Spam is really annoying. 🙁
Now I have closed my e-mail address “webby (at) berka.com” since it was getting too much spam.
Find my new (temporary) e-mail address here.