Sunday, December 16, 2007

ante scriptum

An important part of the Internet is represented by forums, one problem debated by several, a 1 to many relation. Blog is a collection of problems raised by one, so a many to 1 relation.
I am thinking about a M x N model, many problems raised by several. You plan to go to Egypt, if you are a dumb tourist, you go to a travel agency, and that’s it. If you are smarter, you start looking on forums. But there are presented opposite ideas, Egypt is dangerous, Egypt is great. Both ideas seemed to be reasonable. Who do you think ?
Wouldn’t it great to be able to click on an user and go to his blog, to see where else he was, what he did. You get a better image about the source of information.
When you have a blog, you want to share to others your great ideas, it’s a way to satisfy your huge ego. So why waste your posts on forums. These posts represent you.
The blog should express your personality. In this fast world, this is a fast way for people to get an image of yourself.
This is the motivation for this blog. It saves beers, we don’t have to work together, not even know the names. From all of these, a small part is me, but it’s ME.

Friday, December 14, 2007

desk & sq meter & beer

I was thinking about buying a desk. It costs about 30 euros. I thought it was a bargain.
BUT
I made the following calcul:
desk = 2 square meters
1 square meters = 2000 euros in Bucharest
so the desk costs 2*2000 + 30 = 4030 euros.

A beer costs 1 euro. If you drink a beer, you can sit at a table in any bar.
So with the money for the desk I can use a table in a bar for 4030 days = 16 years !!!

Conclusion: I shall have another beer, even I shall stay at the desk for nothing.