Justifying the unjustified again

I was thinking recently about the power of poetry to convince people with things which may otherwise be meaningless. I noticed that the power of poetry in shaping the human mindset is so great and you can see how a national anthem for example could charge national sentiments and a love poem would inflame the [...]

Out of Qatar

I’m in Doha international airport heading back to Syria after two days. I don’t really understand the depression that I feel here. It’s a developing country with the requirements of success at it’s reach. Although, the market is still badly under-served and controled by monopoly in major industries. One more thing which makes me crazy [...]

The world’s ‘strangest clock’ is unveiled – BBC NEWS

A £1m clock called the “time eater” has been unveiled at Cambridge University by Professor Stephen Hawking. The author of A Brief History of Time was guest of honour when the unique clock, which has no hands or numbers, was revealed at Corpus Christi College. BBC NEWS | Technology | Hawking unveils ‘strangest clock’.

Turning to the Taleban in Pakistan – BBC News

US raids on Taleban and al-Qaeda targets in Pakistani territory have caused outrage in Pakistan. And that has added to the loathing that some people there have long felt for the way that the US conducts itself on the world stage, as Owen Bennett-Jones discovers. “I would rather live in the dark ages under the [...]

Complacency is the price of success

I learned that “Complacency is the price of success.” Complacency is the self satisfaction that makes the person unaware of possible dangers. 

LiveWorld Launches LiveBar

LiveWorld Launches LiveBar™, Enabling Brands To Seamlessly Overlay Social Networking on Any Web Page in Minutes Social Networking and Community Solutions — LiveWorld. The new product from LiveWorld seems promising. I didn’t see it in action yet but the idea is worth noticing.

As Barriers Disappear, Some Gender Gaps Widen – NYTimes.com

When men and women take personality tests, some of the old Mars-Venus stereotypes keep reappearing. On average, women are more cooperative, nurturing, cautious and emotionally responsive. Men tend to be more competitive, assertive, reckless and emotionally flat. Clear differences appear in early childhood and never disappear. Findings – As External Barriers Disappear, Internal Gender Gaps [...]

A marketing failure

Blogger ‘Ted Mininni’ was discussing a book called Obsessive Branding Disorder on the DailyFix Marketing blog today. The point is that “companies spend billions of dollars to carefully craft images and messages that are often at odds with the quality of the very products and services under the brand umbrella.” What comes to my mind [...]

Women managers again

I have to admit, since I last wrote about women managers a blog post which gave me a lot of attacking feed back, I have been revisiting my thoughts. And I’m not only interested about business differences, real life differences much more diverse and unsolvable. For sure many differences are there. They vary between places, [...]

Windows vista: a historical mistake

I spent the whole day today struggling with a friend’s PC trying to make windows vista work properly with hardware. And I must tell you it’s a big challenge. The way Vista expects every peace of software to abide by its rules and be compatible with it makes me crazy. The thing is that Microsoft [...]