It came to Light as iPad

and looks like this . And it is like designed for our What the Sky Can Promise vision on the client side.

Rumors Come To Light

"Apple tablet computers", rumors come to light in high frequency now. I will like them.

If UnRisk was a Glass

it was most probably a Zalto glass. From the first touch, each glass distinguishes from other glasses. Technical perfection is the basic principle. The glasses are not only about design. They are produced in the tradition of glassblowing of Venice, but without addition of lead oxide they are resistant against clouding. Despite its feather-light weight they maintain the best attributes of a modern glass: they may be washed in a dishwasher and are surprisingly break-proof.

I have most of them and I confirm.

Is A Pilsner Still A Pilsner?

Like many other breweries, Plensky Prazdroj is now brewing under the umbrella of a large international brewing empire. This post is not about beer. But about technology, market dynamics and dependences.

Me talking to Myself in the Future

this latest piece of the Canadian performance artist Marie Brassard inspired me to look playfully at the past from a future perspective.

Wood-Wide-Web

I just returned from a 5 days vacation: cross country skiing at Ramsau-Dachstein one of the cross country skiing centers in Austria. I have been there in summer time, as well, and hiking through the woods I found baskets full of fungi (especially chanterelles and ceps).

And it came to my mind that some of the fungi live for-and-from special wood-wide-webs (common mycorrhizal networks), where plants and mycorrhizal fungi are linked to transfer, say, carbon-hydrates and minerals.

Research suggested that plants could facilitate the growth of other plants, which could play an important role in seedling establishment, forest succession, and other plant-plant interaction. (see MykoWeb )

In Disrupt Or Re-Invent Ourselves I mentioned our new mission: closing the customer feed back link by transferring know how. Is it the typical New-Years intent?

No, 2010 will be the year of intensifying our know-how packages business. We are highly committed to building common quantitative finance networks with our customers - for mutual development and growth, open innovation and networking will become our business principle.

A Pocketful of Experiences

it was a year of tough lessons and, as Dan Tudball writes in his Editor's Letter, Wilmott magazine Nov-09, getting back on the old horse for some ...

Not for us. In Disrupt or Reinvent Ourselves I wrote about our transformation to a know-how packages deliverer.

Step Across the Border

is the title of an experimental-music film and CD from the music professor Fred Frith ( I mentioned it in Nowhere to Run ).

The following miniature Morning Song by the Czech musician Iva Bitova is from this film.

How to Pick a Good Fight?

This article in the Dec-09 HBR is about the benefits of companies intra-competition cultures (traders and investment bankers would not share ideas, but compete for business), concluding the biggest predictor of performance is complacency; conflicts can shake things up and boost creativity.

A good future-facing fight speaks to what is possible. I like this. It connects organisations and people.

Nowhere To Run?

Amazon frequently reminds me that I have bought some obscure music and there is something that fits to the patterns. Yes I like Fred Frith's Step Across The Border and they offered me Nowhere Fred's sixth CD for music of dance. With pieces like Nowhere to Hide, Going Nowhere and Nowhere to Run.