Let's say, I have apples. A lot of apples. And I want to have a pear. What would I do? I would look out for someone who has a lot of pears and then trade an apple for a pear. This concept works fine, as long as the opposite is actually interested in my apples. But what if the my trading partner is actually looking for bananas? This makes the situation a bit more complex.

The solution to this would be, that you introduce some kind of "medium" that just bears value but other than that, there is nothing more to it. We've done it, we call it "money".

I am an old Hindustani fan by nature and try hard not to miss each weekend's edition of the FT, not to forget that the KILLER COKE campaign caught my attraction, for sentimental reasons. Working in an institution where after hours, if you miss to get your Pellegrino at Sainsbury’s, some magic system forces you to a pilgrimage to the shiny Coke machine. Which by the way I hit as much as possible, always when I pass; why sentimental, seeing how much students and Universities joined this campaign, and in my college? They are so much Coke machines like cows toddle on an proper Austrian meadow. But reading about this very dubious centre the second time in Jo Johnson’s article “ Giving the Goliaths a good kicking”, motivated me to write about.

I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone thought of a way to more closely intergrate the ipod and sex industry (although apparently not for the first time). The OhMiBod is a thrilling new twist on ipod powered vibrators - vibrating to the beat of your music. Seems to be plug & play in all sense of the term which will plug into anything which generates sound. The Q&A section on the website made me chuckle...

Opening of art gallery 30.07.2006

from the set-up in Boston, Convention center 28. July 2006

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

A member of the Senate for 37 years, Ted Stevens is Alaska's senior Senator. Stevens' tenure in the Senate makes him the fourth-most senior member among his colleagues, and first among Republicans. Stevens holds the position of Senate President Pro Tempore. He also is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, which has oversight of the Departments of Commerce and Transportation. In addition, the Committee's broad jurisdiction covers issues including telecommunications, fisheries, oceans and maritime policy, the Coast Guard, aviation (including the Transportation Security Administration), rail, highway safety, global climate change, interstate commerce, space, science, technology, economic development, trade, tourism, consumer issues, product safety, and sports.