Watch what you wish for

The old proverb is true. Watch what you wish for and be wary about what you ask from people. For example the simple question "Tell me secret" to a very good friend of mine one night when I was bored has simply turned upside my world in a very nice and good way. The answer contained three words and a smiley. I will not repeat those words as I consider them very personal and private but I must say, I was stunned, speechless. On the other hand now I know how some people in my life must have felt at some point :) Still, I am honored and the knowledge that was passed has in my opinion deepened the friendship that I have with this person. I still consider him one of the nicest and considering (although a bit cool) persons and I am happy to have him as a friend.

Yesterday my parents were visiting me and we put up the pipes that will hold the drapes in the study. So today I went to Itäkeskus and after 5 minutes of looking found the perfect(?) drapes for the study. This is so going to be the blue room =)

Some weeks ago I went out for a walk with a friend of mine to Viikki. Nice place and got some nice pictures that I was unable to take out from the camera as the for some reason FC5 wouldn't read it. After I've installed FC6 (and the computer is still not what it used to be) I finally got the pictures out and modified some of them a little bit (shame shame shame on me). Still. There was something nice about the walk. It was cold and brisk and the air was clear. Which reminded me of the one morning when I walked from the bus stop to work and I almost suffocated on the exhaust from the traffic on the road standing in the lights. I guess air quality will go down again once the cold air comes over.

Well, today is a new day and hopefully it will end with good news. The last meeting for today is going to be about the transfer of the team to the new place and the questions that we have about it. Keeping fingers crossed that everything goes well.

Flu

38.3 - nuff said

Who are you?

On blogspot you can describe yourself, that is tell, who are you. But who are you? My Queen (yes, you know who you are (no pun)), answered the question with .. quite a long answer. Look at yourself in the mirror. Is that really you? And who is you? Is who you are defined by your actions? Or your name? Or how you interact with other persons?

Father was here one day visiting and we put a the bedroom lamp. I know of the relationship parent or father child or mother child. But what do these titles mean other than that they describe a relationship between two persons. Who are these persons anyway? Yes, they have taken care of you for 18 years and most likely looked after you even since then making sure that you have everything that you would need. But who are they? Or are we just so customed to these mother and father people that we just go with the flow without thinking about it. We know the relationship between the father/mother person but then what?

I was thinking about my grandmothers. The one passed away 10 years ago. I know who she was as we were quite close (we children were the most important to her). I was thinking about my other grandmother whom I remember lying in bed taking a nap. Looking at her there sleeping I wondered, who is she really? I know her from my years as a small child (as I spent all summers with her and my cousins) but still she manages to suprise us (she told us she still considers herself lucky that she was chosen by our grandfather, one person whom I've never had a chance to know, sadly, he seems to have been such a wonderful person from what I've heard). I know that I will miss her when she is gone. As I still miss my other grandmother.

We can sit in a bus full of strangers and not notice them other than when someone sitting next to you, leans over and says "Excuse me, I'll be getting off" and you stand up and let them pass. We are surrounded with people who we do not know and who for the most of the time do not know themselves either.

Ask someone who they are and they will tell you their name or how they relate to you. But who are they?

So really. Who are you?

Closeness

There comes a time in your life when you meet someone. That person is nice, funny, maybe even intelligent (one of my requirements is that you should be able to argue for your standpoint instead of just grunting and be done with it) but above all, caring for the next person. Since persons like this don't grow on trees and you do not meet them on the street everyday I've taken the stand to be nice, help them. Which unfortunatly opens up the sad and shall we say, not so nice at sometime, opportunity to act nice, funny and intelligent (most of all intelligent) to manipulate the other person to get to what is wanted. Access to information about others, access to others through you.

A hug is not much asked for. An SMS saying that your impression is completly wrong and please do not do it anymore, well, that just confirmed my suspicions that had been growing over time.

A question was posed a few weeks ago. Does IT matter? There were two answers: IT does matter and well, IT might matter. Then again IT might not. IT ofcourse is nothing sexy like tits or penises but information technology as a tool in lining up the business strategy and gaining a competitive advantage over the competitors. Has the value of a strategic IS system diminished? Yes and no. Business may have the advantage for a year, max two or three but then the competition will have gained the distance. Early IS strategic positioning was dependent on the high price of IT and the fact that it was new and not everyone was capable of understanding the value it would add to the business (thinking in old ways here). What American Airlines succeeded with with its SABRE system would not be possible today as today IT is accessible by small and large alike. IT has become a commodity, like electricity. What then becomes important is how do you use it? Do you use it to power your TV to watch soap operas or do you use it to power a machine that will produce something of value, or add value by integrating existing systems into one efficient value adding machine that will for a short time blow the competition away and allow you to focus on the next thing that will keep you ahead of everyone else?

NO WAI!!!

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What could be more cuter than that?