Sun 30 Apr 2006
I had to switch off comments from unregistered users. The bots putting spam comments on my blog by far outnumber humans and I’m tired of having to moderate a hundred comments as spam every week. I’m really sorry, however, if you have something to say about anything I post here please register. Registration is quick and painless. And free. 🙂
Sun 9 Apr 2006
Cracow is becoming more and more crowded on weekends, clear sign that the tourist season has started. As I walked today through these crowds filling up the streets of the old town I looked at people’s faces. I tried to focus on one for a few seconds then moved on to another. Each was different yet all had one thing in common – they were all alien, unknown, just glimpses of other lives and stories I will never know.
Walking like this I realised… in this whole whirl I’m in I long for one thing – serenity.
Sat 1 Apr 2006
This is Saturday and as usuall after an intensive week like the last one I’m unable to work, even though I should. My spleen catches up with me so I took refuge in a book. Instead of reading about strategic management, which I should do, I indulged myself with Paul Johnson’s “The Birth of the Modern “, a well written popular history of the second quarter of 19th century, just after the Wiena congress.
It is refreshing in a sense to see that looking in detail at any historical period shows how ilusory is the conviction about uniqueness of our own time. And that social forces and pure luck influence the direction and pace of technological progress much more than many intelectuals would admitt.
OK, time to bed, I’m tired enough so that I shouldn’t have trouble falling asleep.
Tue 28 Mar 2006
I’m in Bucarest today. It’s my first time in Romania – it’s just for two days but it has been very interesting. It’s still a very poor country and it shows everywhere – even the most important place in the city center, where the government resides and the events of the 1989 uprising started is dirty and caotic. Roads are in bad shape and the way taxi drivers drive makes your hair stand. But the country is now developing very fast and it also shows. (more…)