I had a dream last night and it gave me an idea for a story.

Picture this… someone's dreaming. They're aware they're just dreaming. But the story focuses it's attention on another person in that dream. Somehow that other person thinks he's real. He has memories of the past, he has feelings and aspirations. He has a life story.
The person inside a ( Read more... )

European conglomerat Airbus Industrie won a contract to produce 179 tanker planes for the US military, embarassingly defeating it's American rival Boeing! EU ftw! 
Needless to say Boeing didn't take it very well. Reminds you of anything?  To be honest I think Boeing has only itself to blame for it's woes. A B-767 competing with an  A-330, which is a ( Read more... )

This Kosovo independence situation is really pissing me off. Serbians are in one of their nationalist extravaganzas again, trying to blame the whole world for shit they brought on themselves. Slovenia's in a lose-lose situation. We do heavy trading with Serbia (4 billion euro's worth), but at the same time we're a European Union member and more ( Read more... )

 Okay this morning was just too weird for a machine-gun post ( Read more... )

Passed the exam, markets still in the pits, disgusting weather, watched In Pursuit of HappYness - was great. Over and out.

Update on 2008 stuff:

- studying furiously for the exam all workers in the government have to take

- stock markets crashed hard all the way through January. It's been the most miserable month for world financial markets since September 2001... if Americans don't unleash their mighty consumer power pretty soon we're all screwed. C'mon... that iPhone ( Read more... )

I remember lying in a bed in a hotel in Singapor. Was around 2am. TV was on but I couldn't really be bothered watching it. I listened to it semi-consciously through the pillow, just enough to know roughly what was going on. Some sort of a CSI type thing. Then there was music. They used it for the apprehension scene. Brief acoustic guitar solo ( Read more... )

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Indeed good point Bill.

However...

Why do people - even presumably smart people - forward this stupid "we came from the monkeys" one-liner. It'll only futher confuse the religiously blind and the stupid. We did not come from ( Read more... )

So here we are. The decade almost over even though it seems to me like it has barely begun. Feels like yesterday, that cold evening, 31st of December 1999, as I drank cheap pseudo-champagne of Italian origin with friends . Very confusing times for me. Just out of secondary school. Knew Slovenia was no good for me in the long run, didn't have a ( Read more... )

"... this is why I hate you and why I understand, that no one ever knows or loves another."  - How Beautiful You Are, The Cure

I think about all the people I used to know. How their faces and presence fade from my memory as time goes by. Then I think... how many people came by that made a lasting impression on me? A dozen? Probably less. And even ( Read more... )