Archiv nach Monat: Juni 2005

Crap!

Just a sen­ti­ment I wan­ted to let loose. No pun inten­ded, my bowels are quite secure, alas, I fear my job isn’t. Today, it was brought to us of the IT depart­ment that we’ll get out­sour­ced into ano­ther com­pany owned by the same per­son. To „res­cue“ that com­pany, as it has a cash flow pro­blem. Which means a few things: Still

Right & Wrong & Legal

In the recent months, those who bothe­red to look noti­ced that there is a gro­wing chasm bet­ween what is legal, and what people per­ceive as „right“. „Nor­mal“ people are more and more cla­shing with brand and intel­lec­tual pro­perty laws. The euro­pean com­mu­nity pas­ses laws and regu­la­ti­ons that are hard to under­stand to non-politicians, the way money

Home sweet Home

By ran­dom chance I found this pic­ture on a NASA web­page. Accor­ding to the expla­na­tion this is not a bit of filth, but the earth, as seen from Mars. Somehow, this pic­ture gives me an eerie fee­ling. It is a bit like see­ing a years old family pic­ture that falls out of a book. It gives an ent­i­rely dif­fe­rent per­spec­tive. Until then,

Coffee of the Dead

Some people seem to com­plain about the „Zom­bie Effect“: People sit­ting in a cof­fee shop with WiFi, sta­ring at their note­book, instead of being social. From a coffee-shop owners per­spec­tive, I can see what the issue is. These people hog a table, don’t order anything, or very little stuff, and pro­bably also scare away other cust­o­mers. On the other