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Google’s response is impeccable

tfserna — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:08:24 +0000

While I’ve disagreed with Peter Fleischer in the past, gotta give it to him this time around. Google’s response to the WP29 latest “initiative” regarding Google’s Privacy Policies changes is impeccable. Please expect a regular sized post over at BlogEuropa.eu in a few days.

“NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING”

tfserna — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:18:08 +0000

David Granger writes in the January 2011 edition of Esquire: (…) “our culture is overrun with pundits and commentators -especially in the worlds of sports, entertainment, and politics- who sit behind a desk and in front of a camera and gas on about what is going to happen. It’s just about the only thing we [...]

WikiLeaks

tfserna — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:20:47 +0000

The following ‘post’ was published on http://BlogEuropa.eu on 12/12/2010. In memory to my grandparents. **** My grandfather, who lived to the age of 93, had a scotch every day of the last seventy years of his life. He only allowed himself a second one on saturday nights -he went to dinner out with my grandmother [...]

Food for thought…

tfserna — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:00:57 +0000

Think about this: ROBERT LANG: Do yo know what I’d do if I was in power again? I’d have two queues at the airports. One for flights where we’d done no background checks, used no intelligence gained under torture, infringed no one’s precious bloody civil liberties. The other for flights where we’d done everything possible [...]

Greed is good… Or is it?

tfserna — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:46:37 +0000

I hear many negative remarks on the sequel to Wall Street… Truth is I enjoyed it. Perhaps Oliver Stone tried to pack a bit too much politically correct stuff into this one… Anyway, the following quote from the original movie still makes for some great reading… Remember: Greed is legal. “Greed is right; greed works. [...]

Change…

tfserna — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:07:23 +0000

While I realize that it isn’t reasonable for me to expect at this point for this blog to keep any readership after my erratic blogging behavior, still manners oblige, so -and just in case: Dear all, When I started this blog back in July 2006 my main objectives at the time were: (…) “to force/discipline [...]

blogs are back!

tfserna — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:22:32 +0000

didn’t you hear? [testing MarsEdit v. 2.3.3 on Snow Leopard]

twitter

tfserna — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:44:15 +0000

Contrary to what would appear, this blog hasn’t been abandoned. Please see the twitter feed below (at the front page). I think twitter has changed the way I approach blogging. It hasn’t quite substituted it, though by means of its ‘instant satisfaction’, it sure has diminished the need to write ‘long’, if you will, posts. [...]

Vacation time… hobbies…

tfserna — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:58:04 +0000

Aside from long walks by the seaside and reading, one of my favourite activities during summer time is to delve a little further into the myriad of apps I’ve bought over time, play around with them, and try to gain a little more expertise in order to hopefully learn how to make better use of [...]

Notes

tfserna — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:32:59 +0000

Reading the last few entries of this blog, it could argued that I’m fixating a little bit with notes, note taking and what you could call note keeping, information farming, information retrieving… Not surprisingly, the subject seems to be a popular one. Brighter people than me have devoted a lot of time thinking, researching and [...]

OneNote joy

tfserna — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:12 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how it appeared to me that the new ‘Evernote‘ had rendered my previous OneNote setup unnecessary. While I still think that the new incarnation of Evernote has been a huge step forward in many respects… it turns out its not quite there yet. I’ll say upfront that [...]

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

tfserna — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:49:55 +0000

A couple of Sundays ago, I found at the WSJ what I thought was a very nice review of Truman Capote’s delightful ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’. I love the movie and ever since I watched it for the first time I’ve been platonically in love with Audrey Hepburn. Long before I started to grasp how Miss [...]