As of today, right now, I declare that the Female of the Year contest of 2004 is officially opened. For those of you who haven’t been following last year’s competition, you could do a little catching up by reading the female 2003 category, or at least check out this post: A new feature (August 24th,03). […]
Author: sigg3
Link of the day: UN-mandated security force a must for Haiti
The reason why I post a link to this article is because: a) I am very interested in the Haiti situation (/conflict) and b) one of the people I work with wrote it. Financial TimesComment and analysis:UN-mandated security force a must for Haiti by Paul Sletten. Just by reading the first lines you understand that […]
Poll #6: Should I continue with my short 'from the office' stories?
Lately I’ve been posting a few thoughts from the office, a random result of boredom, and I was wondering wether you enjoyed reading them or not by telling me wether I should continue posting them or not. Wether I actually follow your advice or not, however, is something completely different. Consider it as feedback. If […]
Pollresults on "What happened to Saddam?"
From the period of the long lasting weekly poll this time, it has been a very long week. There are many reasons why it turned out this way, among others the minimum 20 votes rule I introduced some time ago, but also my own forgetfulness for which I apologize. Here are the results, however, on […]
Water on Mars
Yesturday NASA finally spoke the words we’ve all been waiting to hear: there is water on Mars. Living on a planet consisting of what.. 70-80% of water, I find this very reassuring. Even exciting. Now we might even find some small organisms that died many, many years ago on a planet far, far away. Critics […]
For those of us with "regular" jobs…
…it is vital to have a good start of any given morning, in order to function properly at the office during the rest of the day. It was with a rising spirit I then succumbed to uncontrolled laughter when I read today’s daily quote written by Douglas Adams: «It is a mistake to think you […]
A salute to post-its
There are many features in the landscape of an office and one of these are those yellow, sticky notepapers known as Post-its. They fill up the landscape with their characteristical yellow charisma like white sheep on the green fields. What I’ve come to realize, during my time as a homo sapiens offices, which is almost […]
Free Music Download? Pearl Jam??!!
Pauly sent me this link: GlideMagazine’s Free Music Downloads.. And guess what?! It’s packed with PEARL JAM mp3’s: Nothingman, Crazy Mary, Black etc. etc. etc. Just help yourself!
Third Cubastory to reach the Truckin' zine!
I’ve been quite buissy lately, doing nothing most of the time, so it didn’t came as a surprise when I discovered that – all of a sudden – one of my blog entries had reaced the latest edition of the Truckin’ zine (Vol. 3, Issue 2)! Looking through my growing inbox filled to the brim […]
The week is at an end
Quote of the day was written by André Breton (1896-1966) in The Manifesto of Surrealism (1924): "Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful. Anything marvelous is beautiful. In fact, only the marvelous is beautiful."