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“Doing Business in 2006: Creating Jobs” is a recent report delivered by World Bank, which describes the conditions for operating a business around the world. I think I’ve already read some of these facts in Thomas Friedmon’s “The World Ss Flat” book, but it’s always good to refresh and re-confirm old knowledge. There’s also plenty of new and changed stuff, so it is surely of interest for anyone who plans to start a business somewhere on this planet.
Entrepreneurs in Serbia and Montenegro can register new businesses online, and if the entrepreneur has not heard from the government in five days, the business can start.
Via Guy Kawasaki.
P.S.: Cyprus is not mentioned in that report even once.
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about my future. I was planning this and that. Some of my plans had to be discarded due to their naivity and stupidity. Others – I couldn’t defent against some smart people, so I just threw them away (plans, not people). After this tedious process only a handfull of plans survived. And there was one that I liked particularly. That is, until today. And although I still don’t know what exactly is wrong with it, but I figure that if it is featured in the Dilbert comics strip, it won’t be very successful. Obviously, other people figured it out before me.
Thank you, Scott Adams, for saving me some time and effort.
In the late 80s, we actually published a book called !%@: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks, which covered how to address email across 190 distinct networks. (The title !%@ was homage to some of the many special addressing characters that were used before the @ crowded out all the others.)
A big thank you is due to my parents, who gave birth to me in such when and where, that I didn’t have to learn “190 distinct networks” and ways to send email through all of them.
For those of you who still often forget why we need web standards, here is a nifty reminder.
The point of the standards is not just to ensure that browsers can display the pages. The standards also ensure the pages form a platform that can be built upon; a hacked-together platform leads to brittle and fragile extensions.
