I never get a call in the middle of the night. My family in the US have Australian time down pat- and know when to call me at a reasonable hour.

In fact, the last time I got a 3AM call, it was September 11, 2001. I watched CNN till dawn. (it was piped live through all Australian networks)

So, when I awoke from a deep sleep last night to the phone ringing, my first thought was bad news. In fact, the very first thought that entered my head, even before I was fully awake was- "they got Obama". Weird, huh?

I suppose it's all of the comparisons to JFK, RFK and MLK - besides being great orators- those guys have one thing in common.

My second thought was that it was Lucky, telling me the Sift had been hacked by Russian pirates and was now serving trojans to all comers.

Turned out that it was some ad sales dude from the US wanting us to host their ads on VideoSift- sales people think the world works on a single time zone.

Persephone got up to take the call- her legs work better after a quick wake up than mine. She told me who it was, and I think I might have told them to fuck off or something. Sorry Mr. ad salesman- whoever you were.