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This is the ultiamte „how-to“ on converting your wishes for 2004 into reality…

Who was the most influential European? Quite interesting discussion can be found here. If you ask me, it was Willy Brandt, showing to the world, that living in peace is no question of different countries themselves, but of the respect against the human being itself.

Being not very convincing, David Beckham rejects rumours about Roman Abramovic (owner of englands actual No. 3 FC Chelsea) plans to buy half of the Real team. It seems, that money makes goals! Poor soccer…

Welcome to 2004, an welcome for a new round of discussions about our european structure in the future. A good article about that can be found here, (try Babelfish for translation) written by the former president of the szeck republic Mr. Havel. In short it deals with the question, of how new EU-countries like Latvia,…

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…

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“:…

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…