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

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.