friday sleepless syndrome

Random independent ideas - like in a standup comedy. One after another.

If I f**k up something I cannot sleep on a Friday night. If everything goes fine - I cannot sleep on a Friday night ... because I'm trying to keep up to speed with my 1000+ rss news waiting ... plus who knows what. When I'm not really sure - it's the same. I did some searches and there is no such thing as "friday sleepless syndrome". They talk about sleeplessness in general - which is not my case :-)

Really - is this short movie about the dream of any lottery player ? :-) What is your list of guys and what would you tell them ? :-)

Have you seen how many HR guys are making random connections these days with thousands of people on linkedin.com ? I start to think that at least in my culture - these networks will finally fail ... or should others use the "Remove Connections" link ... it seems to work on linkedin.com. But what if one of those apparently random HR guys is actually a good/strong one - who heard something about you due to a recommendation ? :-P

Why on earth I cannot buy a 0.99c "Nelly ft Kelly Rowland Dilemma" from Amazon mp3 ? Because I don't live in US or UK or DE ... I'm gonna get one passport to be able to live a decent digital life.

A stupid similar question would go to my favorites from Apple - who's still not running a romanian decent store for music. Apparently money does not mean the same when they come from different countries.

Should I wait few more months or should I start jail-breaking my iPhone now ? :-)

Too poor to buy bad products. However - given the fact that iPhone is such a cool product - how many guys are buying stupid big dump phones with the iPhone in mind and heart ? What is the market for the guys who don't want to take the risk of spending that money on a real (smart)phone - considering that they will not get the same package but something enough ? What is "enough" when everything is really dependent on a reference system ? But if I apply the same rule to cars - why should I keep a 90hp family good Skoda on leasing - when I actually dream about at least a 200hp diesel or hybrid Lexus or Honda :-) (no more BMW fan) ...

The most promising student/young guy that I know requested me around 2 weeks ago to make a linkedin.com recommendation for him. I strongly encouraged him to apply for google summer job - and he was accepted. He's scheduled for this summer (crisis ? :-P). But I have not wrote yet anything. I want to write something great for this guy. I learned my lesson to be careful when doing recommendations but now he's the opposite extreme - he's too smart so I have to think about every word I wrote. Anyway I don't know what's he doing with it ... :-P

What is the limit for innocence ? Where is the end ? What happens when you have contributed indirectly somehow to an article describing in a good way a company - and two weeks later without knowing or guessing anything - the guys from that comp send you a 'have you seen this' ? :-) Or is there a better word for this ?

I don't know what's in your culture - but in mine - when somebody wants to invite you to a weeding - he/she has to give you a very formal invitation. There is old or not-enough-educated people who are very angry if they don't receive one in time. I just received my first 'digital invitation to a weeding'. I had a discussion regarding the impact of weeding's on cutting trees/forests. Is this a good sign that we are upgrading ? I hope that others start to think daily about such things ... :-)

Usually my blog is completely disconnected from my personal and professional life. I don't blog about the technologies, guys, tools nor anything I work with. I don't blog about what I talk with others. Of course also due to various NDA's and desire to maintain low-profile - the stories here are not reflecting my daily status or activities. So a good question in a modern life would be "what is really a personal blog when you don't want to blog about yourself" ?

ps: I am really sorry - but I want to upgrade my blog and write about things that really matter. lately there's not much great breaking news that I can write about - so I wanted to put the interesting things from my current snapshot of low-profile life here ... that are passing through my mind at 1:51am (Saturday) :-)