Today mayor Bloomberg and Co. pitched New York City to be host for Olympic Games in 2012. Main point was that city that hosts UN and a lot of other things would be a warm host to the Olympics and this will send a message of friendship, warmth and so on and so on.

From a perspective of a person who lives in Brooklyn and commutes to Manhattan every day (particularly - to Grand Central Station, 42 Street by 4 or 5 train) I cannot even imagine the chaos that will rein upon the neighborhood I am working in. But besides my personal preferences there’s another thing that worries me. The city that hosts UN and Olympics will also send a message to all terrorists and maniacs all other the world as the very possible target and that, being a resident of NY, is not something I look forward to.

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As I was upgrading my instant messengers (I use Trillian 3) the idea came to my mind - which messengers are really good for dating? Since I don’t have any “native” messengers installed, I quickly surveyed my friends who use one or another and here’s the shocking result.

None of the messengers from big-ass companies like MSN, AOL and Yahoo is fitted enough to provide decent dating experience. You can’t search for some one you’d want to talk, who lives in a same city/town, has similar interests or something like that. ICQ, on the other hand, simply has no competition.

There’s whole HUGE market here… Free money, anyone?

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