These things .... depress me

Thanks to Springwise -again- I stumbled on this site, 'A fully customized calendar planning service that will simplify your life while adding a ton of fun to your child’s day'. For an annual membership of USD 499, BusyBeesNYC will create a schedule of classes and activities for a family's children that combines free, paid, scheduled, drop-in and sometimes lesser-known events while accommodating the kids' eating and sleeping routines. Thank God for that! Dzjeeses.

seems a no-brainer but why isn't everyone doing this?

What do you do with a mobile phone when you have no electricity? Not much. In Uganda, a country with almost no electricity resources available, Motorola is installing solar powered recharging stations for mobile phones. The service is, of course, free. The solar sations are manned by local, entrepreneurial, women. Now where is the catch? These women also sell (Motorola) handsets, sim-cards etc ... Actually I wouldn't call that a catch: you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours and in the end these women create the foundations to start a sustainable business and gain their independence. Check it all out on Springwise.

Yess! I have an e-ID

Weird. Got my e-ID card almost 3 years ago and never ever had a use for it: no-one ever asked me for it, I never got around to getting a reader and I never really thought much about other applications besides tax on web ... but now I do have a reader and I found out about a website detailing e-ID usage and applications in every Belgian city. Cool :-)

Smart domains

Almost one month since last posting. Stuff has been happening, most important of which was changing jobs. Let's pick up this habbit again.

Starting with an amazing exercise in finding a number of domains for a big e-gov project. All the relevant ones (ok, the boring ones actually, the ones you'd expect because they say exactly what they mean) ... have been taken!

You'd expect government services to claim as much domains they need, the ones they might use, the ones you'll never use but you don't want them used by others and the ones with a certain appeal or potential? In my former company we had over 200 domains, a lot of which we'd probably never activate but didn't want to see appear with the competition ... Maybe I should refer again to Hawaiian terms, like Wiki and Mana'o!