Flow Of Time

PowerPoint Palace. I think that

PowerPoint Palace. I think that was the term a MS representative called Nokia's HQs since they are a big client for MS's office products. Today was the time to do some marketing material. Actually it wasn't as dull and boring as it may sound. Athmosphere was stimulating, Swedish theater's cafe with plenty of people coming and going. It took some 3 hours but was pretty rewarding. It was more like creating something new than just warming up some old stuff in a microwave. The beaty but also the challenge is to be precise, still articulate and to the point. Most of the presentations are just some sloppish phareses and terms but together in more or less random order. Actually I hate all ppts altogether. One has to do those in order to learn the marketing rap but should forget them while presenting the case. Good salesmen are talking most of the time and the best are listening most of the time. Custom made speeches and sales pitches for me, please!

I got fed up with my idle computers. What's the use of 1 or 2 gig processors if most of the time they are just used for showing the screen savers. Also a mailer, excel and office are that demanding nowadays. Yeah, right. Well, the point was that I downloaded an app that will use my idle computing time for drug discovery for a major cancer project. Grid computing is the hip term. There is at least another similar project for AIDS.

After reading some stuff about the war I started to wonder the following: What if Hussein did not actually have any big plans or programmes about weapons of mass destruction. He just hided something and played around like he was actually running some development programmes. The allies' evidences shown were not that convincing before the attack. Would it possible that Saddam just needed some excuse to cling in the power? A nation is united when there is a foreign enemy. And in this case he needed a strong enemy that is taking a keen interest to their matters. Otherwise the country would just turn into a void after some twenty years of pure fighting and war. Even Saddam would have hard time keeping in power on those circumstances.