Sex and music videos go hand in hand. Well, Robbie Williams have merged these two pretty succesfully, or what do you think?
Lately I have also been involved with some SM activities myself. Today was one of them: Mobile Expo. A trade fair for mobile biz commenced in 2000 when it was a massive success. Each year it has shrinked by half. This must be the final year, I thought already in 2001. Well, 30 exhibitors and only 900 visitors in total for yesterday. Two makes a crowd on those corridors. Almost as pathetic experience was the Biotech fair the other week in the same massive trade center. Two industries that are totally broke and out of fashion. People were not even pretending to have fun, not talking about being excited about their stuff. Splendid!! Next time I rather visit some funerals.
The best part was to hear some stories about old collegues/biz friends. Some real party animals have gotten married, some have moved to Australia, others have returned to their nifty fifty corporate cubicles as if they had never left. Business as usual.
Mobile is dead. Wireless with big mammoths and a closed ecosystem are in! Long live the young and entreprenerial spirit and thanks for the cheap labour and concept testing anyhow. The table is catered and the big boys may start to enjoy the main course...
I used a taxi today and talked with the senior driver about his business. Man, it sounds hard work. Ten hours a day is not sufficient to make a living. For him (he owned the cab) some 170€ a day is enough and an average ride is around 15€. The supply and demand do not meet efficiently since it may take more than 3 hours without any customers. Then suddenly you are making nice money in a few minutes. Summa summarum, some 15 hours should be enough and seven days a week. Cool! In India fellows were writing off their smallest and cheapest car in the market (mini Suzuki) seven years. And the car costed 6000 eur. Petrol was not cheap, only half the European price level. I paid 20eur for a car and driver for an entire day. Half of the fee went down the drain and off the exhaust pipe...
Now I gotta go back to my living room. Three hours at home and night shift begins. With Partagas Churchills again. Man I love Cuba!
Posted at April 3, 2003 08:34 PM