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I`ve just read a very interesting article in the „Wirtschaftswoche“, dealing with the question of what will happen to our economy 2004 in germany, and why our history plays a very important role in there: in 1972, when there was full employment, and every employee could choose whether he wanted to work in his company or in another, there were nearly no hierarchically structures within the companies. Just because there was enough work, and everybody could tell his boss: Hey, I`m unlucky, I`ll change the company! Thats true freedom! Nowadays everybody is moaning about bad feelings at work. We should stop that, and give some of our material freedom for our immaterial freedom! It`s more important to be happy, than earning several Euros more per month. Lets go, and work 40 hours, let`s go and take 10% less wages, and there will be no one left on the street. That´s my wish for 2004. Learning from the past, gaining more freedom: Wirtschaftswunder, Part 2.

Blow away your prejudices, and go playing golf! And check out Naturalborngolfers.com. A fantastic flash site, that really motivates to get your iron 6 out of the cellar, go into the next park, and play the game. But remember, safety first!

Finally they did it: fastcompany brought us a list of 20 companies changing the world. And guess what? These are not the big players. They are differently small businesses. The essence of their study: Get away with all of these stupid barriers! See a problem, and solve it. Thats it!

As Jakob Nielsen describes here are the top ten webdesign mistakes of 2003. Jakob Nielsen is definitively known as a usability guru, though his website is for my point of view definitively no mirror of his ability…

For all of you, who are interested in classic-music: I went to the philharmonie in cologne last friday, and it was a great concert of the „Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen“ (Website). We heard pieces of Bach, Muffat and Schütz. It was a very great pleasure to hear the orchester, trying to play in the „old mannor“: they use strings made out of intestine instead of steal. This ends in a very soft sound. So check them out, if you can.

You won`t believe this: Everybody is moaning about the bad economical situation in Germany – especially the bad turnarounds during the x-mas time. Well, my girlfriend and I went to a shop in cologne and wanted to buy some red socks we saw behind the glass. The friendly salesman told us, they would be the last pair they have in the shop. We said: it´s ok. – we take them. But guess what: he wouldn`t sell them to us! Just because it was the last pair! As long as Retailers have this freedom, our situation can`t be that worse!

well, isn`t x-mas a very fine day to start my blog?
i`ll use it t keep in touch with the „real“ world. living in cologne and bielefeld the same time, it`s quite hard for me to keep in touch with all my friends and dears…so the internet gives me the opportunity to share a small part of my life with all of you. we`ll have fun, and maybe we can exchange news about all the themes we are interested in. i`m excited, wether this will work, or not…