We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.
Musings about work and life
Promoting business analysis in Hungary
In 2008 I have joined the IIBA -International Institute of Business Analysis -, because I think that if you are a business analyst, that is a smart thing to do. After a while, I have noticed that there are chapters everywhere, even around my country – in Serbia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Poland, etc. [...]
2010 is a tough year – but I’m still alive
2010 so far has been quite hard on me. Business has almost dried up thanks to the last waves of the financial crisis, coupled with the general elections held in April – general election years always start slow. So for the last 4 months I had no contract at all, only vague promises, maybes and [...]
Lessons of the last 6 months
Image by roland.hesz via Flickr It’s been a long time since I have last written here – I don’t really count the last two posts, and even if I did, 2 posts in 3 months is not that much. Anyway, kind of back, but still not completely – and it’s not lack of time, more [...]
What Matters Now: get the free ebook
Seth Godin wrote a post where he asked people to spread the word about a new, free to download ebook organized by him, with the title: What matters most? – Things to think about (and do) this year. Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as [...]
Uganda: A little goes a long way
Considering the approaching birthday of Kiva.org I thought I will post this little video here – I found it on causecast.org The full story of Uganda: A little goes a long way can be found on the website of Frontlineworld, and there you can find the full length video – but that site does not [...]
Some thoughts on the UML Sequence Diagram
Earlier this year I had an interesting talk about sequence diagrams. The topic was asynchronous messages and how UML models them. As I find the topic interesting, I thought I will write a bit about that. So how does UML models asynchronous messages, and how can you tell from a sequence diagram if a message [...]
Running on a new WP theme
I have fallen for the recommendations, and bought and installed the Headway Theme Finally, got it working too. It is easy, everything is a snap, except when you have want to make some really “fancy” thing on your site – like the Video Posts on the right -, then it’s php coding. Or when it [...]
The Wizard of Waukesha has left the stage
Image via Wikipedia The Wizard of Waukesha, Lester William Polfuss has left the stage. But not before he gave us the Les Paul , the first multi-track recording, the world’s first commercially-produced reel-to-reel audio tape recorder and a lot of good music. Your guitar – or at least a cheaper version – gave me countless [...]
Are you there?
Are you there? No, really? Ok, I want to ask you something. Minimize the feedreader, the e-mail client and tweetdeck. Done? Now maximize this window. Thank you. Ok, just joking, but, did you notice how much we “multi-task”? We are at so many place at one time that, well. we are nowhere actually. We read [...]