Seth Godin wrote a post where he asked people to spread the word about a new, free to download ebook organized by him, with the title: What matters most? – Things to think about (and do) this year.
Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we [...]
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Uganda: A little goes a long way
Considering the approaching birthday of Kiva.org I thought I will post this little video here – I found it on causecast.org
The full story of Uganda: A little goes a long way can be found on the website of Frontlineworld, and there you can find the full length video – but that site does not allow [...]
Read MoreThe Wizard of Waukesha has left the stage
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The Wizard of Waukesha, Lester William Polfuss has left the stage. But not before he gave us the Les Paul , the first multi-track recording, the world’s first commercially-produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder and a lot of good music.
Your guitar – or at least a cheaper version – gave me countless hours of [...]
Sound of Copyright
The copyright term extension is going forward in Brussels despite fierce opposition from the representatives of consumer rights organisations in Europe – sort of shows if Brussels looks at the interest of the voter or the lobbyists.
The ORG “Sound of Copyright” Conference that took place in the European Parliament last week is over, and there [...]
Doubling the time – Copyright term extension
I have been following the new Term Extension Directive that is going forward in the European Parliament.
What does it mean? Basically, they intend to double the term of copyright for sound recordings, extending it to 90 years – that’s about 3 generations.
That would mean that a song written in 1960 will not go into [...]
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Lessons of the last 6 months
- Image by roland.hesz via Flickr
It’s been a long time since I have last written here – I don’t really count the last two posts, and even if I did, 2 posts in 3 months is not that much.
Anyway, kind of back, but still not completely – and it’s not lack of time, more like lack of subject. I could not think of anything I could write about. None, nada, zip, nil. Ideas for posts has been swimming in my head when I was relaxing, but then I stood up, and started to work, or think, or plan, and the ideas whoosh – flew away.
Now I try to get the ideas together, and sew a beautiful tapestry of words – I mean, try to type in some meaningful sentences forming a coherent post.
So, as I have written a few times in the summer, for various reasons I have started my own small company, business, which seemed like a good idea – and actually the only way to get some paying job.
Of course, I have always wanted to do it sometimes in the future, so I was content with the way things went, at least until I started to meet the traps, tricks, roadblocks and all the funny things that come with running a business.
What Matters Now: get the free ebook
Seth Godin wrote a post where he asked people to spread the word about a new, free to download ebook organized by him, with the title: What matters most? – Things to think about (and do) this year.
Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we [...]
Uganda: A little goes a long way
Considering the approaching birthday of Kiva.org I thought I will post this little video here – I found it on causecast.org
The full story of Uganda: A little goes a long way can be found on the website of Frontlineworld, and there you can find the full length video – but that site does not allow [...]
Some thoughts on the UML Sequence Diagram
Earlier this year I had an interesting talk about sequence diagrams. The topic was asynchronous messages and how UML models them. As I find the topic interesting, I thought I will write a bit about that.
So how does UML models asynchronous messages, and how can you tell from a sequence diagram if a message is [...]
Running on a new WP theme
I have fallen for the recommendations, and bought and installed the Headway Theme
Finally, got it working too. It is easy, everything is a snap, except when you have want to make some really “fancy” thing on your site – like the Video Posts on the right -, then it’s php coding. Or when it chokes [...]
The Wizard of Waukesha has left the stage
Image via Wikipedia
The Wizard of Waukesha, Lester William Polfuss has left the stage. But not before he gave us the Les Paul , the first multi-track recording, the world’s first commercially-produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder and a lot of good music.
Your guitar – or at least a cheaper version – gave me countless hours of [...]
Are you there?
Are you there? No, really?
Ok, I want to ask you something. Minimize the feedreader, the e-mail client and tweetdeck. Done?
Now maximize this window.
Thank you.
Ok, just joking, but, did you notice how much we “multi-task”? We are at so many place at one time that, well. we are nowhere actually. We read a blogpost while [...]
Be The Hero – a new book recommendation
Okay, so this is about a book I have been recommended to read by Karen Swim. No, I have not read it, yet. But I will.
The only reason I recommend it to you is because so far every book Karen recommended was a win. Not in the sense that I took everything in the books [...]
Unveiling my new hobby
Long time no see. Yes it has been a quite time, I more or less went “underground” for the last two months, but I was working on that little thing you see on the left.
Right, click on it. So that’s it. Company up and running, and I had to put the website together too.
I want [...]
What can you learn from the Nac Mac Feegle
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The Wee Free Men. The Nac Mac Feegle. The ones who have been expelled from Fairy Land – after breaking up the place for the thousandth time. They steal, they drink, they fight, and are mortally afraid of their names being written down – ’cause of the lawyers you know. They are around [...]
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