[Obi Wan's Ghost]

Of course he wants to get down with us people because he is 'so street' Man I would love a discourse between this guy and Kevin Smith.

This is his URL

http://www.ahmadinejad.ir/

It's down right now because the guy and his team don't know how to use infidel technology

This is what the BBC says about it:

The launch of www.ahmadinejad.ir was reported on state TV, which urged users to send in messages to the president.

Mr Ahmadinejad's first posting, entitled autobiography, tells of his childhood, Iran's Islamic revolution, and the country's war with Iraq.

The blog includes a poll asking if users think the US and Israel are trying to trigger a new world war.

There is a postform for users to send in questions for the president, and a picture gallery containing a series of images of the blogger himself.

The move by Mr Ahmadinejad comes amid continuing internet censorship by the Iranian government.

In a country where the media is strictly controlled, the internet has become the main forum for dissident voices.

But in its bid to crack down on anti-government bloggers, the government uses one of the most sophisticated internet censorship systems in the world.

Such restrictions will not pose a problem for the president. However, at the end of his first posting - which runs to more than 2,000 words in English - he promises to try to keep things "shorter and simpler" in future.

"With hope in God, I intend to wholeheartedly complete my talk in future with allotted 15 minutes," he writes.

Nose bleed

Mr Ahmadinejad's first entry on his blog, which is available in Persian, Arabic, English and French and includes an RSS feed to get future new entries to readers, is dated Friday.

He begins by telling users of his humble origins. "During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar - approximately 90 kilometres west of Tehran," he writes.

t is not yet clear how well Mr Ahmadinejad's blog will be received. User figures already appear high - by 1100 BST on Monday, nearly 12,000 people had taken part in the online vote.

But Keivan Mehrgan, a Tehran-based blogger, told the Associated Press news agency he thought the president's efforts were merely a publicity stunt.

"Ahmadinejad used to have nothing to do with the internet and even talked against journalists and bloggers before he became president," he was quoted as saying.

[Y3a]

OOOOOHH!!! More 'facts' on the intarweb!

[nonhuman]

Aw, there doesn't appear to be an English version. I'm really interested to read this. Guess I'll just have to learn Arabic...

[Kerrigan]

There's an English translation:

In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate

Oh Almighty God, please, we beg you to send us our Guardian- who You have promised us- soon and appoint us as His close companions.

During the era that nobility was a prestige and living in a city was perfection, I was born in a poor family in a remote village of Garmsar-approximately 90 kilometer east of Tehran. I was born fifteen years after Iran was invaded by foreign forces- in August of 1940- and the time that another puppet, named mohammad Reza – the son of Reza Mirpange- was set as a monarch in Iran. Since the extinct shah -Mohammad Reza- was supposed to take and enter Iran into western civilization slavishly ... bla bla bla

[invisibleX]

Hmm, if only there were another place to put this thread. Some sort of area specifically for threads of a political, and thus biased beyond reason, nature.

Oh hold it. There IS a place called the political lounge!

[Y3a]

Never been there....

[turtle777]

Can't wait seeing it being hacked by the Mossad

-t

[spacefreak]

Mossad? I think I may make this my subject for Hacking 101. Stay tuned for...

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]youz wuz wHacKed by da -= S*P*A*C*E*freakz =-
IsRaEl rulezzzz[/FONT]

[goMac]

He better hope he's not running Windows or else that website will be hacked in... oh... too late. He's running Windows with asp.

[Kerrigan]

Originally Posted by goMac

Windows with asp.

what is asp? anti-semitic programs?

[- - e r i k - -]

Kick ass web design

[The Godfather]

So? Hugo Chavez has had his own Podcast for years.

http://alopresidente.gob.ve/index.htm (currently closed for maintenance)