It's has been a while since the last posting. I was caught up by tons of work with two companies and almost full time of studying on top of everything in the spring. Now the holidays are over and I'm ready to rock again.
I was not the only one slowing the pace with blogging. Last spring lots of biz blogs were getting only a few posts if any. I suppose blogging is a substitute for working and therefore a direct indication of either one's motivation / work load?
A few weeks back I read Richard A Clarke's "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror". Must say that it was illustrative of the US government ways of working and most of all about politics. West Wing gives too nice of a picture of the behind the scenes actions - at least in the current Bush era. If you have the chance glance the book through.
Last weekend I went to my friend's wedding and the guy next to me in the dinner table was an independent consultant. He had been working with Nokia in the past years. He has been wondering whether to buy Nokia shares or not. They seems to be cheap now but still the most important question for him was that does Nokia has the cuts to come back? He was involved with building a new worldwide logistics system for the company and was more than aware of the quality problems with the handsets. My only advice was that usually Finns are really putting their act together in the time of crisis. The famous 'sisu' steps in to picture and make miracles to happen.
However, I'm still waiting to get my new Samsung handset with Palm OS and more than happy to abandon my ten years history of Nokia phones...