home office

Working environment

The room where I sleep and read.

Since two months, with some exceptions, I'm working generally from home.

Sometimes, I like it, sometimes I don't. Because it becomes harder to discipline yourself.

But, it is a good experience anyway.

Two Maps

Actually, one of the top discussion in Turkey is about the relations with Armenians..

The first plan above, shows the frontiers before the WWI (1914), and the second one, shows the frontier after the treaty of sevres. Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empires are crashed after this war.

Ottomans played a game in WWI, and lost a lot of its territories.. Nothing to do.

It is the same for Armenians. Neither of us won.


So, who did win?

I believe, this conflict was organized by alliance countries ( surely UK was aware of everything, also Russia; these things make remember me the movie Braveheart, )

Also, please watch this animation...

There is a lot of things to learn.

Using thunderbird as email client

Thunderbird is a very good alternative for Outlook. You shall try it.

First download it from here:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_thunderbird/


Use this skin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/891

Import your contacts to thunderbird as decribed here:
http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/et_gmail_addr.htm

Use velcro for organizing cables

Use velcros (in turkish it is called CIRT CIRT) for organizing cables in the house or office..

You'll see that it is very pratical.

Also, please read how these things are discovered. It is cool, a swiss man saw the vegetable things which are stinked to his dogs fur, so he observed the structure of these things in the microscope, and decided to create a tool with following same principle...

Vel(ours) cro(ché)

Downloading Movies - Games - Programs easily

Many friends were asking me how to download easily movies and software...

Here is the way:

1- Browse the PirateBay

2- Download utorrent

You're ready to download. PirateBay is the most common platform for searching movies and software. And, utorrent is a good software to download these files...

A new job

I found a job last month (since first november) in a young company. They are specialized in SAP BW consulting. For now, I'm working from home. I read documentations (about 1000 pages) and practice the system. I guess in one month, I'll participate to a project (unilever).

SAP is the most common software (%40 of the market) used in big enterprises (especially the global ones). Because, this huge system has lots of flexibilities, it supports many languages, many accounting systems, and it is independent from other database technologies.

The module I'm working on, basically is the reporting part of the system. So, it help the users to make analyses with reporting tools. For any department in an enterprise: Sales, Production, Procurement, HR, Accounting etc..

All this can be done with Office Excel, in small enterprises, but as big companies has big volume of data, they need a system for managing it.

SAP BW is a system for providing and organizing all these reports. Think the enterprises which sell millions of products. So, as the data is huge, the BW system also has huge functionalities.

Zeitgeist the movie

Zeitgeist The Movie, this is a documentary made in 2007, I think everybody shall watch it, maybe it is a conspirancy theory, maybe not. It tells about religion and financial system. Also, it explains 9/11 facts.

I hope, this documentary can make people wake up from their sleeps. I hope :)

Paris Combo

Paris Combo, they are wonderfull... If you also like Pink Martini, you'll adore them.

Especially, their song -attraction- is great. It's a pitty that I discovered them only now. Because, I was listening their song -Istanbul- since 2 years; but I wasn't aware that it was them who sing this. (the tag of the song was wrongly written, the singer was named as "Carla Bruni" in the mp3 : \ )

A friend told me that, it wasn't Carla Bruni, but Paris Combo : )

So listen them, from here.

The turk

Above, is a picture of a weird machine :) Its name is the Turk, this is why I find it more interesting. The inventor of the machine, presented this thing as an automated chess machine but, in fact there was somebody in the machine who was controlling the moves. So, they were cheating people.

So, the inventor became very famous, with this very succesfull machine :o)
(he is from austria)

By the way, there is an amazon service which is called also Mechanical Turk.
Discover it from here. A very good business idea.

For details, read it from wikipedia...

Politiki Kouzina

Yesterday, I watched a greek movie called "Politiki Kouzina", I like it a lot.

It talks about historical relations with greeks and turks. The story tells this story from greek side. Unfortunately, many greek familly are forced to leave Istanbul (greeks call it, Constantinapolis ;) ), after the Turkish Republic founded. The same thing happened in greek side, lots of turks left Greece. The population exchange is made only by looking to the religion.

The exchange is made many times, 1924 and between 1950-1960. I think, Turkey lost a good human resource, it is a pitty. But this is politics : \

One month ago, I met with two greeks who had same situation at 1960's.

This situation is caused by political crisis happened because of Cyprus Island.

Islam in a nutshell

I think, this text is telling islam very basically. Everyone, who doesn't know about islam, shall read it.

pivot table

Hey.

I would like to share something that I find very usefull.

In excel, there is a utility called Pivot table. Maybe you already know, it is very smart, you can use it a lot when reporting.

If you have data somewhere, (in another excel file, or database), it is very simple to create pivot tables.

You can also use, numbergo as an alternative program for this. The essential is that you have accurate data.

You can learn this concept from here.

For researching it from Google your keyword is:

pivot table excel

Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets

A good list for finding cheap tickets:

Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets

Good Luck for Turkey

This is a notice board in Georgia near Turkey border. (Sarp border gate)

This made me laugh, they wish good luck to people who is going to Turkey.

Maybe they're right :)

Tarlabasi

0378, originally uploaded by natale cozzolongo.

Tarlabasi, is a very interesting district of Istanbul. But, unfortunately it is not safe to walk there. I'm planning to drive to there one day with scooter. Sulukule district also is in my list.

In old times, like 19th century, these were very rich countries, their residents were jews, greeks and armenians. So the buildings are very beautfull. After, all these people left these buildings alone (because of politics; search greek&turk relation between 1919-1960) and generally gitanes comes in place of them.

Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire

The regions that Turks wanted to take (1) and that we have actually(2)

I found some interesting informations in Wikipedia.

if you're interested with history, I think it is usefull to know these things.


Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire (history)

Treaty of Sevres(The contact that they wanted to sign us)

Misak-i Milli (The contract that we wanted to sign)

Lausanne Treaty (Actual border treaty)

Funky Istanbul

funky Istanbul from Coskun Istanbulluoglu on Vimeo."

Autumn in Istanbul

A new video which is dated 2-3 weeks ago.



Untitled from Coskun Istanbulluoglu on Vimeo.

Northern Iraq

After the thing happened today (15 turkish soldier died near Iraq frontier, at the point marked on the picture), I think that, Turkey have to occupy northern Iraq for a while. At least, until there is a more powerfull government in Iraq.

Because, it is almost impossible to make defense at this region due to geographical conditions (lots of mountains).

We shall advance until Kerkuk and Mosoul which are very strategical zones.

I guess nobody will let us do that, because Kerkuk and Mousoul's situation is a very complicated case. (These places are very rich oil zones).

I also belive that the actual frontier designed after WWI is wrong.

You shall research the region history to understand the current situation.

Here is the keywords for your research:
-First World War Ottoman Middle East
-Treaty of Sevres
-Treaty of Lausanne
-Treaty of Sykes-Picot

News

Hey!

It's for saying that I'm fine. But on Monday I had a car accident. It was the day before the national holiday which is 9 days. So, the roads were almost empty, but it was raining. I had my cousin going to Pologne (Krakow), my familly told me to accompany them to airport.

Everything is fine, thanks to God. The accident was serious, but we had luck.This is because of a car which forced me to change the line (the driver had no license), then another car hit me from the back. My speed was about 90 kms, the car who hit me was about 120 (maybe more). He made us hit the barriers then made us turn 360 degree on the road.

Unfortunately the report which is written by the police was invented for protecting the driver with no-licence.

I think the car will go to the trash. It is not very very serious, the car had insurance. But, the fact that there isn't justice made me uncomfortable for a while.

Now, I'm not sad, because I belive that, one day these people will pay their faults. (I hope, I can find video records which show road situation at the accident location. Today, I sent a mail to police department about the case.)