Flare Facade: Exterior Design @ it’s greatest

Sunday morning and I was surfing the net coming across “Flare Facade“.  What is it? Well the truth is that after Crysis (the game), everybody wondered what it would be like to do the same at a building… No, i am just joking. Flare Facade is a series of metal flakes all attached to a computer programmed mechanism that moves each one in certain patterns so as to reflect sunlight creating moving patterns at the exterior surface of a building. All this creates amazing and endless patterns mixing with the surrounding environment. check the link above to see if its worth it.

 

Ciao

Time management & free time

These past few days I try to figure out how to better manage my little free time. Reading and implementing time management patterns seems to have little effect over a long period of time. The way I see it, there are times that your body wants one thing and your mind a completely different thing. No matter how much you pressure yourself, you can’t reach maximum output for the simple (from my point of view) reason that you may find yourself enacting with not attractive to you issues. Being honest I haven’t found a way to surrpass this. What I try to do is putting myself in situations & conditions close to the ones I want to have. Sometimes it works, some others it doesn’t. The thing I do know is that almost everything is possible and finetunning your cogs may result in better balance and self-achievement levels.

Finally, I want to propose one small thing. Don’t get accustomed to habbits. Try different things no matter how ackward they may seem.
Take care.
Hopefully I will start posting more.

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

I stabbled upon a series of newsfeed about the creation of a new hi- tech institute in Europe, providing a high amount of financial resources for its development. Digging a bit more, I read that the initial idea was concieved by Mr. Barroso on February 2005 and only after 3 years it was approved by the Council common position.  So much for innovation. 

It’s always good to hear that initiatives are made towards IT-R&D-etc development especialy if these are initiatives that are going to be supported whole-hearted. However, I have the impression that all these initiatives of the European Union are all dissemination stunts and nothing else. No true essense to these actions. Similar to the EU Programmes initiatives, where the proper execution of a project is more important than its result… :S Nevertheless, I have supportive mentality towards the EU initiatives, even though most of the times these initiatives do not reach the target market inititialy aimed for. 

Some links:  

BBC

LiveLeak

Official site of the EIT 

EIT background

new trends anyone???

Trendwatching has released the new briefing report and I have to admit it is quite interesting …

Twitter

Twitter has no point… comment otherwise

Laptop bags roundup by TrustedReviews.com

Crumpler laptop bag

While searching for my next e-buy I came across this little laptop bag roundup at the excellent site of Trusted Reviews. Although I would like to see more laptop bags I was happily surprised when noticed that they started the roundup with the Crumpler brand. I own a Crumpler bag and had posted about it in the past.

The only downside is that it is not a business laptop bag and in the office many look at you like the black sheep, but I am happy owning one of these accessories.

Adios

Loan in Greece

House loan

Honestly, do NOT ever involve in getting a house loan from Greece, the procedure is tragic!!!

The prerequisites are hilarious and the people are plain stupid, they want papers going back to the ’80s and quite frankly I regret ever getting in the position of needing a bank in the first place. Noone knows the exact order of actions and everyone believes that you magically have knowledge of their work. Come on people its your job to inform me not the other way around. At least this is what I do in my field. I inform people on a procedure that (may be simple at most cases) must be followed regardless of their knowledge (or absense for that matter) on EU projects. In Greece everyone is an expert and noone has a clue… To sum up, before entering the dance floor be 100% sure that you know all the steps.

Adios