It's Saturday and I'm being lazy. Again. I haven't slept well all week so I have this nagging too-tired headache and huge bags under my eyes. Aaaah! Zombie girl! Oh, wait, that's just me in the mirror. Yeah, yeah. Whine. Oh poor me. Actually things are good. I wasn't completely lazy today. I did qui...

Working for my own company is first and foremost a choice of freedom. It provides the freedom of being able to choose interesting projects to work on and interesting people to work with. Running this tiny company was not a choice I made because I wanted to run a company and fine-tune a business to p...

Background: In Greece, there is limited research on issues related to organ donation, and the low rate of registration as donors requires explanation. This study reports the findings of a survey of knowledge and attitudes to kidney donation among primary care patients in rural Crete, Greece. Methods...

There are (at least) two ways to tell a story and get people to act: Punch them in the face and wake them up to realize the shit they’re in, then boost their confidence, tell them the answer is within and that you trust them to find it and you know they can make things better (the Jari Sarasvu...

It is, therefore, obvious that the crimes of the Zionists will never be forgiven and forgotten by the peoples of the world in general and the Arab peoples in particular, unless the Jews in Israel and their communities abroad begin a systematic campaign to overthrow this criminal regime and its ideol...

a private party, originally uploaded by Trevira. The old farts, the 30+ crowd I belong to, have this fear of the social internet. We (not me, of course) fear that by sharing our party photos online, by writing our thoughts to a blog, even by replying to discussion threads, we expose our private live...

There are many many great books about business. Those books contain wisdom, which sometimes become standard of operation. Watching the wisdom come true a year after year might make the wisdom so compelling, that one tends to forget it is business wisdom, not universal wisdom. The wisdom gets applied...

still and peaceful, originally uploaded by Stitch. Without urgency nothing happens. How many things do you have on your list which you really want to do, but never get around doing? Even things you feel you need to do, yet fail to accomplish? Without the desire to already have what you haven’t...

Elements of a good conference presentation: Show your energy and enthusiasm! Align the knowledge requirement of your content just above what you think is the knowledge level of the audience. You will be under-estimating heavily anyway. No. Fucking. History. Yes yes yes, “history sets the frame...

The next week after Shift’08 (which I wrote about on Monday), I attended Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin. The main reason for me obviously was my speaking engagement (scroll down for more about this). This is a rather long account despite trying to keep it as brief as possible. Opening Reception...