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Enough already

Ok, so the world economy is based on growth, and in the wealthy west we have long ago reached the level of growth by increasing our standard of living and moved on to creating demand for consumption where there previously was none. That means, we are being taught to think we need all this shit, [...]

| Posted 30 July 2010 | Random stuff | Comments (0) |

Back in the saddle

As of today, I am self-employed again. I’ve been working elsewhere for just over three years, while trying to keep my own business on the side, and now was the time to make the jump to a full time entrepreneur. I have mixed feelings (as usual). I’ve been through this before, leaving a company where [...]

| Posted 28 June 2010 | Random stuff | Comments (0) |

Beauty and misery

Nature, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. Or how else would you explain the beauty in these pictures, taken just two months after what is turning out be the worst ever natural disaster by oil: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/oil_in_the_gulf_two_months_lat.html - 37 pictures of the gulf of mexico / BP oil spill. Some of those pics are [...]

| Posted 22 June 2010 | Environment | Comments (0) |

Economic downturn – where’d that come from?

In case you haven’t noticed, there was – and still is to an extent – an economic downtorn almost all around the world. Everybody was broke, nobody had any money, companies went bankrupt, people lost their homes. In general, it was not nice. But wait a minute! How is that actually possible. Isn’t the amount [...]

| Posted 21 June 2010 | Cynical conspiracy theories | Old crow whining | Comments (0) |

Survival of the who what now, huh?

Charles Darwin. I’m sure you know the chap – evolution and all that, is what he was all about. You know the most popular idea of his, or at least the most quoted, survival of the fittest? Well, have you ever thought what it actually means? It doesn’t mean survival of the strongest. Fittest in [...]

| Posted 20 June 2010 | Random stuff | Comments (0) |