financial times of crisis for the grass roots..not just the banks.

We were today in Norway introduced to a "crisis wallet" that the government has found in their back pockets to save the state and its people in more difficult times.

It is aiming at, as in many other countries, to save certain parts of the business world from total collapse. In Norway, we havent seen the extreme consequences of a financial crisis. Yet. An arguable amount of few people have lost their jobs and people are losing their businesses and houses. Nothing less was excepted. However, when something should be saved in times like these - isnt is wrong that schools and old peoples homes become the losers again? What about private owners of smaller firms? Are not these companies the evidence of a thriving economy - those we should try to save as well? Resourcful people who are making it by working hard to build and create capita. These people will help rebuild the country in hard times - they should not be punished for not working for a large, stable government supported company.

If every person depending on their own companys income lost what they have, and there are thousands of such companys in the country, then MANY people will suffer. They too, pay large amounts of taxes to the government and feed the mill of democracy just, but most importantly they lift the weight of responsibility off society because they take the burden of making things happen, themselves. Still, it has not been made easy to start a business and keeping it going strong.

Grass root power. What kind of power is it? If only the large solid companies and building contractors are the ones to be saved, who will actually be the target for a direct hit of the financial crisis?

I am asking for a strategy for those who struggle to contribute to society, inspiring to create new wealth and ways to further prosperity, but at a grass root level - those who fill in the blanks and create variety desperately needed for a society to thrive. What will these people do if no tax relief is given to them? Is it so that in poor times the government should support larger companies and those who can maintain jobs for people at the moment or should there also be focus on those who take the responsibility in their own hands and seek to create new jobs in the future? Will it help to continue to ignore the encouragement of a small business? If it means they too will need to depend on the large company that have the government support after the crisis? Will it gain the society?

Grass rot power. Where is it taken into consideration in a large economy?

talkshows

are often hosted by women.... what does that say? Women have a lot of sensible things to say? Talkshows are not necessarily funny, unlike stand up shows. It has something to do with pinpointing an issue - not just blab about it over and over and over again..

Great male comedians - any female comedians?

it just hit me as a puzzle (I might be incredibly politically incorrect right now) to whixh extent I could suddenly only name male comedians as favorites: Eddie Murphy, Jeff Dunham, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Rowna Atkinson, Robin Williams, Jim Carey, Leif Juster, Dagfinn Lyngbø, Atle Antonsen (last three names are Norwegian) etc etc. Where is the long list of female comedian mega superstars?

I also began thinking that in real life this personality trade of being funny or entertaining is more likely to stand as a male characteristic. And it got me thinking. Its no brain surgery or rocket science to see that it takes a good portion of self confidence and ego to be a comedian. Women tend to be critical about every little tiny bit of themselves and especially towards other women, so I guess it does not come as a big surprise that we are not so good at taking a piss at ourselves as men are (unless the man is a %&%?$ that thinks there are actually laws written in the case if anyone would be so cheeky to offend him - HIM of all people). Oh well, taking a piss at woman AND men here..

My point was just that - well I didnt have a point really. Just couldnt think of any female comedians yesterday and it got me thinking... which clearly was not a good idea.

A good night to you. :)

wishes for the new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!

I will have to improve on my poor blogging skills for the coming year and I hope I can get this up and running again within a few weeks =)

oh yes.. and stop drinking so much coffee..
oh.. and remember other peoples birthdays.. =)

and not the least bit sentence about being better at worknig out more often and eating more healthy =)

quicksilver for Mac.

So, a simple program was developed for Mac to search and navigate and open programs and files, called Quicksilver. Around a year ago a test was performed on this freeware, only brought to my attention recently. It began with the sentence: "seldom have I ever been so impressed with a freeware before..." As I started using Quicksilver I started wondering how on earth i ever got by without it! its genious. And so the article finished off with comments from various users and the mandatory "the same can be done just a simple on Windows..". "Oh well, so how can it be done?" I thought to myself, correcting myself with a "don´t be so prejudice about Windows" and looked at the instruction only to be surprised by... - what I already knew. Six steps towards opening Firefox "simply" using only a selected abbreviation in "Run". Problem is, you have to configure the abbreviation first. That´s not simple. I will however, not let this influence my next account with Windows. Hopefully it wont possibly pretend to be as simple as something else, when it involves finding paths, making files and storing something before you make use of it. I like spending most of my time on my work, not making shortcuts or finding paths. That is why I stick to my Mac. But I am sure it can be done on a Windows machine too..

link to article here.. click at the bottom for the link about windows..

this is how geeky ive become..

I laughed out loud =)