Posts tagged as "mind"

Posted by Markus on 25th September 2009
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Technology or Business?

After you’ve figured out that you really want and need a web site, you come to a very important crossroad. This fork has two different paths and usually people don’t even realize the existence of the other. Let’s go back a bit. Imagine you walk to an advertising agency to do a print campaign. Do [...]

Posted by Markus on 15th April 2009
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The most important question?

Although Lag Wagon sings that the kids are all wrong, they do sometimes have something brilliant in their simplicity. With kids, I naturally mean very young ones, nearly babies. They have an endless curiosity and usually will continue their question barrage of whys after you’ve just finished answering the initial question. Of course, after a [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009
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eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone

Today I made a leap towards a future I’ve been supporting for a long time, but something I have been reluctant to start enjoying – electronic books. For a long time, I’ve been on a personal mission to reduce my use of paper by embracing everything digital – be it all my writing, mind mapping, [...]

Posted by Markus on 5th April 2009
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Finland loved Heroin

The main Finnish newspaper ran a story today about an interesting fact. In 1936 Finland became number one in the world in the use of Heroin. The previous number one was Japan, and the other statistic where Japan and Finland are leading the pack is suicides. According to the article Finland used more Heroin than [...]

Posted by Markus on 2nd April 2009
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Infographics as art

As computers and technologies have become more available, info-graphics went from being subway maps, charts and other two-dimensional objects more towards art. We now have cheaper and more powerful computers and open sourced, free software that removes the limits of technology to a level. As was seen earlier in my post titled “The Crisis of [...]

Posted by Markus on 31st March 2009
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Wireless = Paperless = Personalized

Personalization can offer huge performance increase for education and also help to save in costs and the environment. A paperless school can teach students to use today’s technology naturally and effectively as a part of their own knowledge. The learning process as a whole needs to change to accommodate this availability of information by teaching [...]

Posted by benesek on 28th May 2008
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Specious meanderings

Well now, it’s been a long long time since I sat down to write something here. I suppose it would be de rigeur to fill in the blanks – though not too much obviously as this is less a letter to Granny, and more the specious cognitive meanderings of someone who would be a simpleton [...]

Posted by Markus on 22nd January 2007
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Rage Against the Machine to Reunite?

Now this is NEWS. According to LA Times, one of our favorite bands of all time is about to reunite after 9 years. It’s supposed to be only for the Coachella Valley festival, but the deeper meaning here is that Zack de la Rocha is back and if he’s back.. BOOM! Not that Audioslave isn’t [...]

Posted by Markus on 20th January 2007
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Corporate Moral

Running a corporation is always all about making profit. We have to keep our clients happy by not lying to them and having a code of conduct that will ensure that people will want to continue working with us. I think Google is a great example of respecting clients and still managing to make shitloads [...]

Posted by Markus on 30th October 2006
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Gruba Goo!

The last two weeks have been filled with way too much work, but now it’s finally done. We’ve been working on a new energy drink for the last 9 months and we got it done last thursday. So, last weekend I was just creating a dent in my man-sized couch while playing Oblivion on my [...]