Where there’s passion, there are stories. So true, so true. There’s no need to coach people about storytelling, the story telling skills are within us and it “only” takes passion to unlock them…

Is it time to stop using the big centralized american data silos in order to avoid a 1984 surveillance society? This transcript of a testimony under oath by Yahoo’s chief consel is very arrogant and worrisome.
Rep. Brad Sherman: Let’s say you get a call from the NSA saying they want you to give them a copy of all my e-mails. Can I rely on your privacy policy that you’re not going to give those e-mails to the NSA unless you get a court order?
Yahoo General Counsel Michael Callahan: We would …

Another Denmark. Great initiative towards not letting us be defined by extremists on both sides – just signed it.

Seeing life reduced to pixels on a screen. After an afternoon and evening in anxiety because of sudden issues the “right” pixels we’re moving. The little heart was beating on the screen. Child no. 2 is still on the way.
The “right” kind of pixels can make you very happy.

According to the blog Rantings of a Sandmonkey the egyptian newspaper Al Fagr printed the cartoons in October 2005. Read that again – october 2005. (i’ve had no possibilities to fact check his claims yet). Update: Originally reported on freedom for egyptians tuesday.
Put’s the current violence towards countries where the drawings have been printed in perspective.
The world is so much more complex than any one of us can comprehend – and people who reduce it to freedom of expression for the sake of freedom of expression with no thoughts …

I just sat in a outside hot-tub with 8 people in the swish alps looking at the the stars, the mountains and the russian billionaire neighbour’s 20 minute fireworks show drinking a 109 year old ammoniak. Life always surprises. Life always surprises. Life always surprise if you let it do it.

Just posted the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad islam drawings for documentary purposes. Think it’s important to see the object that it’s all about.
This evolving story is really interesting on many levels in terms of anti-islamic moods in western countries which causes politians not to take leadership, how complex the world’s ecosystems are, the political consumer in the middle east and what it takes to destroy any possibility for conversation and connection.