Working for your pension?

According to the author below, last year's HSBC survey results showed that among 20.000 adults around the world 60% of them intend to work after they have retired. As Dr. Patrick Dixon says:

"In future in many nations it will be a crime to discriminate on the basis of age, to force someone out of a job simply because they are 'too old', when they are fit and able to do the job as well as anyone else."

"Most people who retire say they are as busy after retirement than before. While this may not be accurate, the fact is that total leisure becomes boring to many people after a while."

How much money AND leisure activities should we then utilize when young-and-active and how much should we save for retired-and-active stage?
(foto: Dejan Križaj - active grandfather Janko /left/ and active sisters' father-in-law Jože)

Creative spam

Spammers can be quite boring and annoying, but some are creative and funny.

My spam filter is apparently not ready for this kind of art which sneaked to my Inbox ;)

Click on picture to understand the technique.

Are you rich?

Interesting Finance article written by the richest woman in Slovenia. Unfortunately not in English. Some highlights:

"Now I can work what I want and speak what I think."

"I buy a new car each five or six years, I go on holiday five times a year and each year I buy blackberries when I first see them regardless the price. These are things you can afford although you are not one of the 100 richest..."

"I like Gadafi's sentence which you can read at Tripoli airport: 'Man in need is slave indeed.'"

"It is important that things that you own and do are important to you. Do you know what is important to you?"
(Photo: scol22, www.sxc.hu)

Awarded Muslims' suicide mission

Two Pakistan Army pilots have just received the highest Slovenian award ‘Golden Order for Services’ (English, Slovene).

Story behind it is mentioned in many blogs, sites... - for instance here. Awarded pilots almost miraculously rescued Slovenian climber Tomaž Humar from Nanga Parbat.

The interesting part of all the buzz is pilot's statement (according to Slovene source) at the ceremony. For him award is a message to the world that Muslims can perform suicide missions likewise to help others...

(foto: Dejan, view from local "Nanga" Rodica, 2005)

Life experiment

I take life as a never ending experiment so I am not sure at the moment if there can be any general rules for raising a kid. (There can be general rules in technology, physics etc. but can there be any for rational AND irrational human mind?)

Nevertheless, here (bumped to it from here) is a good one (for me): "Rather than reacting to behavior, discover the needs leading to the behavior."

(Two nephew mouses as for aesthetic appeal, not as lab-mouses :)

Innovation barriers

Interesting reminder that innovations can fail it they are ahead of their times or overblown by high expectations...

Like some recent eTechnologies: Apple Newton, Digital audio tape, DIVX, Dot-bombs, E-books, IBM PCjr, Internet currency, Iridium, Microsoft Bob, The Net PC, The paperless office, Push technology, Smart appliances, Virtual reality, Apple Lisa, Dreamcast, NeXT, OS/2, Qube, Speech recognition, WebTV...

Suits well to Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations Theory.

Oman spices February/March '07

I needed a few weeks to find time for breathing Arabic again...

Oman February/March 2007 !

HERE you need a few minutes to load 10MB Flash movie (pictures with Quran recitation).

Alternatively (for fast viewing), the same pictures without background Quran are here.

Da Vinci Code for Web of Life

Da Vinci Code, biodiversity and Fritjof Capra's Web of Life. What do they have in common? Start with this movie and continue with further readings of the first three.

Seven deadly sins in business

In the first post of his blog Business, sex and technologies Blaž Kos wrote that majority of the companies are taking advantage of human weaknesses. These weaknesses can be presented by seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed/avarice, sloth/laziness, wrath/anger, envy/jealousy, pride/hubris/vanity.

(In Slovene the sins are: napuh, zavist, požrešnost, pohota, jeza, pohlep, lenoba.)

Sins or means for enjoying the life? Depends on your levels.

Human nature of clash

Clashing from sport...

slovene / english









.. to religion.

original article (click on picture) is in Slovene (Dnevnik, 5.2.07) but similar text can be found here.

Virbus Helsinki meeting

Virbus Helsinki meeting was a very pleasant European experience. Four EU countries, 20 members project group, northern winter (wooden-burned public sauna is a must) and a lot of fun, especially with proxy-servers and ther bug-fixing with needles :) Some pictures.

Where University students fail

Interesting points that Daniel Scocco mentions in his Innovation Zen's article about 13 competencies you will not learn at the University: " ... I am skeptic about the value you get from University degrees and MBA programs. In my opinion most of the traditional education focus too much on knowledge while neglecting the development of competencies and attitudes."

He mentiones following missing competencies: getting to the point, making proper presentations, working on a team, writing a resume, interviewing, networking, accountability, money management, taking the initiative, strategic planning, dressing for success, negotiating a raise, writing a letter of resignation.

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