Year: 2010

Day in brief

I favorited a YouTube video — Most incredible volcano footage ever http://youtu.be/IAxj2ob_JoU?a #
I favorited a YouTube video — Royal Navy Field Gun Competition 1997 http://youtu.be/VslIuK-bAHg?a #

The Doing Business project provides a rating across 183 countries on how easy it is to do business in each one of them. Cyprus occupies a respectable position #40 in that list. Here are the metrics used in ranking calculations, as well as some of the neighbors for Cyprus:

Easy of Doing Business Rank: 40 (after Columbia, Azerbaijan, Qatar and before Kyrgyz Republic, Slovac Republic, Armenia)
Starting a Business: 25
Dealing with Construction Permits: 77
Employing Workers: 93
Registering Property: 64
Getting Credit: 71
Protecting Investors: 93
Paying Taxes: 37
Trading Across Borders: 15
Enforcing Contracts: 107
Closing a Business: 21

And while there are obviously plenty of pros and cons to each country in the list, it’s nice to see a summarizing effort.

Law suits in mobile industry

Like if you needed yet another proof for the fact that mobile industry is hot right now, here comes an excellent graph of who is suing who. Things like these are also of much help later down the road, when the dust settles a little bit.

Via Design Language News.

Day in brief

New design for IMDb is actually quite an improvement. I'll still need to get used to it though. Check it out. http://www.imdb.com #
Good morning. :) #textthatleadtosex #
I favorited a YouTube video — How to Cut Carbon Emissions http://youtu.be/sSTLDel-G9k?a #

Medieval technical support

Yesterday I discovered that the video of medieval tech support might be too old now and that the younger generation of IT guys could have easily missed it. Here it goes, a piece of classics, for everyone to enjoy. By the way, you don’t have to work in IT to have a laugh at it.

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