Chernobyl and kind people

During last few days I was working on the presentation of the charity project, I was reading a lot, thinking of the whole issue... It makes me really realise how difficult the situation is, how many people suffer and how lucky are those who are healthy or got curied.

I think I will post several videos here, to show the examples of brilliant projects and to say THANK YOU to all those kind people. You are doing great, you are doing right, thank you!

Here is the video with interviews of American families which hosted Belarusian children.

Fly around the world

Very often when I travel I think of the airlines and how they develop. Even 5 yeas ago, I could not dream of flying so cheap and so easy. It takes just few minutes to book a flight to any corner of the world. For example, I went to Barcelona with two different airline companies, bought both tickets online and everything worked out! Amazing!

On the other hand, it's still not very well developed in all countries of the world. Nowadays, it's really easy to book a flight let's say from the UK to any part of Europe just for 20 euros. One can even book a flight to Toronto or Montreal and then your holidays in Canada might be brilliant!

I just hope that one day it will be also easy to travel to Minsk. :)

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Being connected

Every time my laptop stops working I don't know what to do... Uff, I am so much dependent on my computer. It's like extention of my mind, the tool I use to work, to communicate, to get information. And then suddenly, it's not working. I tell you, I was almost crying. Now, it's somehow working and I am relieved for the moment. The good thing is that I've ordered already a new AC adapter! Cool!

FaceBook and Photos

World is changing, we are living in amazing times. I am so happy I can take thousands of pics (so I have lots of memories in photos) and stay connected with all my friends. Hmm, when you start thinking of the modern thechnologies, you really get excited.:D At least I do:D

What does the stock control do?

I was always interested in the stock exchanges, but since at my university I was told that there were no stock exchanges (rather just goods exchanges) I've lots my passion to the stocks. But, time passes and last year at the academy I had a brilliant professor, who was telling us about different issue in economics. And he made me interested again.

When I think of the stock exchanges I imagine a complicated massive of information, lots of sallers and lots of buyes. I guess for the beginners the first exercise is to start observing the trend. For example, I keep watching the price for the Google shares, they were about 60 USD in the beginning, two years ago they were 200 USD, this year more than 400 USD and the forecast is to overcome 600 USD in the next year. This is a tendency I would say!
But when you start your business and it's connected to the stock you have to be more serious and efficient. Therefore, one would need some Small Business Inventory Control Software in orger not to get lost and to be productive. It is quite obvious that one has to predict some trends in order not to loose money as well, so the systematisation of the information and the following analysis are very important, I think. Reports, graths, calculations, sales... everything should be under control. Therefore, one must have at least some simple software to be sure to keep everything in order (for those who prefer paper consumption, think of the forests you safe;)). A human can not do it alone in the modern world, too much information for a human being:) There are some gifted exceptions though, but it's rather just confirming the rule.
And one more question, what is the most important in busuness? Right, time! Especially time management and time consumptions, thanks to the engineers we have some nice software and organisers! But this is another story I might write about next time.

Rasism in action and international reaction

I was really disgust to find out that our dearest Mr. President, speaking to the Russian mass media last Friday, mentioned Jews in the contecst which was not appropriate at all, from any point of view. First, I don't think the assumption he made is true. Second, being the head of the state he has no right to say sth like that. After all, Belarus is one the countries which has brilliant examples of Jewish people who were born here and became famoust being very talented. Chagall, for example! I love his paintings! Shimon Peres, who was born in Belarus (occupied by Poles though), and now he is the President of Israel. Actually, maybe these two presidents should talk?

After all, it's still one of the biggest minorities after Russians and Poles in the country. What is he thinking about? Therefore, I am happy that Israel reacted and recalled its ambassador in Belarus back to Israel for the "consultation".

Pliushkin or what and where to store

I go back to my school Russian literature programme every time I decide to store something. Why? There was a here with a family name (or was it his nickname?) Pliushkin, since that year for me Pliushkin is a person who stores lots of things which he/she might once need, but actully would never use them. This is the nightmare I am trying to avoid.

Although it's not so easy to keep everything in order and nice looking if you have a small flat or even a room. As the IKEA commercials say here in Vienna - "small space needs brilliant ideas". I would agree with that. It's not only about making your space nice but also to find the place to store things. The storage solutions can be really different. Since the room is really valuable for leaving I would store the things at the moment I don't need in a different place, for example in a garage or in a stockroom (esp. appropriate for our "slavic culture" to conserve and marinade:). The list could be really long, from my old toys which I hope to show to my grandchildren to my notes from the college.

On the other hand I am happy I don't have to many things right now, so I can "think about it tomorrow". The nice weekend is ahead!

P.S. This post is brough to you thanks to CarGuyGarage.com.

Distance learning

This year I am making an experiment. I experiment with education:D Well, I've signed up for a distance course, actually even three. He he he, we'll see how it will be. So far it seems to be quite interesting and productive!

Who is interested in social networks?

I've been following news about different IT companies buying another IT companies. Google bought YouTube and Blogger (yeah, this one), eBay bought Skype and so on. But most of the new purchases are in fact the social networks. One can be sceptical about all this, like in the last issue of the Economist:

"And Microsoft and Google now appear tempted to add more froth by investing a silly sum in Facebook, the latest big thing."

It's true that

"All three—the internet telephone firm, the video site and the social network—make almost no money. "

but still, they are valuable since it's information what matters. Social networks are becoming next big thing, that's true, and I think it was Google who was the first one to start collecting data and analysing people's behaviour. You can use this kind of information for the marketing aims for example, but not only. I always feel somehow insecure when I think of all these date being collected about me, even now while I type this message, lots of different bits of data are collected (including my IP address, time, even my thoughts and opinions:) Well, one should be brave enough to speak out without any fear:) That's a challenge of the modern technologies that even if you think you are alone and nobody knows and nobody undestends you, that's not quite true...

To be continued. Bis später!