A much better idea for a blog

For those of you who do not want to blog about general stuff, vaguely related to professional interests, personal emotions, love-it-or-hate-it issues and the like, take this as an example: the by-now-famous blog of a guy writing up different uses for the wedding dress his ex-wife left him when she ... left him.

I confess, I read about it some time ago and didn't pick it up. Meanwhile Huffington Post did. So did MSN and AOL. Someone mentioned it during a presentation on last Friday's Search University Seminar in Brussels. Which reminded me to go and have a look again and check if this guy was still at it. Yesss he is. So enjoy!

And, btw: his blog is called www.myexwifesweddingdress.com. Now how cool is that ;-)?

crazy ideas for us poor office workers

I had never heard of Steven M. Johnson. He creates these weird ideas for using workspaces or turning them into fascinating environments. What to think of the rollabout desks that you park at the end of the day like you would a cart in the supermarket? Or the Squirrel Cage Work Station! But this is my favourite.

To dream the impossible dream: wireless earphones

Funny, actually. A couple of years ago the great magazine on IT and lifestyle, Bright, had some kind of contest on applications or tools that its readers thought had to be invented. The result was a wishlist containing ideas like wireless electricity, flexible screens and the like. We are talking 2006. I suggested wireless earphones and got selected in the list.

Last night I attended another great BGGD 27 in Antwerp, courtesy of Sony Ericsson, where a new generation phones was presented: the impressive Xperia 10 and it's xperia 10 mini version, along with some background features information. In the wake of this BGGD 27 Sony organizes a contest through which we can win one.All we have to do is post a new idea on se.dot and hope for the best.


And guess what: 4 years later we still don't have wireless earphones. As Sony is first and foremost connected to music (after all, they did invent the Walkman), I thought relaunching this idea would be kinda fun. And somewhere in the back of my mind, I still can't believe that wireless earphones haven't been invented yet. I must be missing something.