Zeitgeist

Last saturday, I watched the second part of Zeitgeist movie. It has lots of ideas; it is absolutely a must watch.

Download it from here:

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/dloads.htm

Lifehacker

Lifehacker is one of the web site that I check every day.

All the things happen about Web is there.

If you're interested with web, at least, one times a week you shall visit the site.
They had such a success that, they published a book.

Spirit of Istanbul

Music from the soundtrack of Politiki Kouzina (a greek movie telling the years 1950 in Istanbul).

You shall go to Galata Tower at sunset; there is a such beatifull atmosphere. I hope this movie can make you feel it.


Istanbul from Galata from Coskun Istanbulluoglu on Vimeo.

buying a vehicule

In near future, my dream is to buy a vehicule which can make me more free.

I guess, for this the best vehicule is a van; because it has enough space, you can modify it. (I think to put a large bed in it)

So, you don't need arrange a hotel for organizing a trip.

best time for Istanbul Trip

Istanbul will be capital of Europe at 2010.

If you didn't visit Istanbul before, or want to revisit; this time you shall not throw away this opportunity.

For example, since 16 years, the wonder of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia was in restoration. It is only now that they started to remove the cage which is constructed below the dome.
This thing was hiding the beauty of the dome (look at the picture)

The best season for Istanbul, I guess it is may, because there is tulips everywhere .(Tulip is the national symbol for Turkey. research it from wikipedia). August, July can be very hot. September also is fine.

So, discover Istanbul.

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