Ich habe letzthin noch kurz über meinen vorigen Blogeintrag zum Thema Fahrzeugkontrolle nachgedacht. Dabei ist mir aufgefallen, dass ich nicht den Hauch eines Dunstes einer Ahnung habe, welchen Dienstgrad der freundliche Polizist hatte. Jetzt könnte man meinen, dass das prinzipiell eher in die Kategorie "wenig interessant bis total wurscht" fällt (und hätte damit wahrscheinlich recht). Allerdings hat mich dann das Pendant zum sportlichen Ehrgeiz gepackt - der intellektuelle Ehrgeiz.

Als ich noch in Wien arbeitete - ja, ist schon ein bisserl her - tauchte während der gemütlichen Heimfahrt plötzlich hinter mir ein Blaulichtakrobat der Sorte "Sheriff" auf. Nun bin ich ja bekanntermaßen ein enorm um-, vor- und nachsichtiger Autofahrer, war also entsprechend überrascht, als die Freunde und Helfer mein großzügiges Angbot des Zur-Seite-Fahrens nicht annahmen, sondern sich hinter mir einparkten.

Years ago Bill Gates gave a speech at Mt. Whitney High School in Visalia, California. In it he outlined 11 rules of life. I stumbled across them again and they still ring true:

Everybody DOS now!

If you look at this and keep in mind, that it was an actual commercial, you have to be laughing your a** off. Promo video for MS-DOS 5 upgrade (if you don't know, what DOS means, it is still funny ... though much less so).

Recently Foxconn and its customers like Dell, Nokia, HP and - last but certainly not least - Apple have received more media attention than they would have liked. This led partly to Apple putting relations with e.g. the NY Times on ice.

Now Apple decided to change their strategy and invited and ABC team led bei Bill Weir to take a look at and record what is going on for real. Is it newly found openness or just a nifty PR move on their behalf. See the videos and judge for yourself:

I don't know whether you read my short post about my first time driving on a Romanian highway. Some people did and one of them provided me the map below. Very useful, showing the quality of roads throughout Romania:

Have to follow up on a previous post. Lau G commented on it and shared a YouTube link with even more information about what the world would look like without Romania. Check it out:

I am currently in London. On my way to some dinner last evening, I passed by a McDonald's restaurant. No big deal. Except this one is different from the usual template based joints. You got to hand it to the English: they do things in their own style:

A brief overview of Romanian achievements, you may not have been aware of. Quite amazing indeed: