2007 has been an eventful year for me with lots of “grand” turning points in my life! Some of the highlights are that I graduated for my Master’s which implies that I am not a student any more after many incredible years! Started with my first job and had wonderful encounters during my holiday in South-America! In addition my family and friends are by and large well and happy! What more can I wish right?
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and I wish you a kick-ass’ingly amazing, loving, healthy and inspiring 2008. May your dreams come true in the new year, may the world be a little bit better at the end of 2008, may you have lots of joy and happiness in your life.
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” (Aesop)
“There are two ways to lead your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” (Einstein)
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Micro-loans made to third-world entrepreneurs are changing lives and fortunes around the world. CNBC published an article on success stories on Kiva’s microfinance loans here.
The Kiva wesite was founded by Jessica and Matt Flannery. They were newly weds - he a software engineer, she an MBA student at Stanford - who were convinced they could use the Internet to put people in need together with people willing to help. Anyway, this is how Kiva works.
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Given the dollar’s historic depreciation, CNBC in association with Reuters and Thomson compiled a list of today’s strongest currencies, based on their exchange rate with the dollar.
You may be surprised to learn how many international currencies are ahead of the US dollar! From the Ghanaian Cedi, Euro, Pound Sterling to the Kuwaiti Dinar and the Cayman Islands Dollar. For a full overview click here. (The ranking - based on a sampling of published exchange rates - could change should the invariable, daily fluctuation in rates be significant.)
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The Dutchies can expect three challenging football matches next summer during Euro 2008 held in Austria and Switzerland! Today, faith has drawn Holland together with World Champion Italy, World Champion runner-up France and Romania (who ended ahead of Holland in the qualification group) in the same group. At least “we” know what to expect with these opponents.
Holland boss Marco Van Basten added: “That really is a hard one. The Romanians posed us so many problems in the qualifiers, and before that we will have Italy and France, but at least we know what we are up against.”
The good thing about this drawn up is that we can expect three exciting matches in which Holland don’t has the make the game itself. Which is a good thing since there will be lots of space to ball around for us as well. Let the football craziness begin!
The full Groups are:
Group A Group B
Switzerland Austria
Czech Republic Croatia
Portugal Germany
Turkey Poland
Group C Group D
Holland Greece
Italy Sweden
Romania Spain
France Russia
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The World Economic Forum has announced 39 visionary companies selected as Technology Pioneers 2008. The companies’ products and services include identity management on the Internet, understanding of individuals’ genetic information, robotic radiosurgery, pollution control materials, low-cost remote diagnosis solutions, virtual interface technologies, wiki-based projects and next generation business intelligence solutions.
Twenty-three of the Technology Pioneers 2008 are US-based companies. Israel and the United Kingdom each boast three; Sweden and Switzerland two each; Canada, France, Germany, India, the Netherlands and Russia, one each. Technology Pioneers are nominated in three main categories: Energy/Environment, Biotechnology/Health and Information Technology.
The entire list of Technology Pioneers and interviews with the CEOs of the selected companies can be found here and the BusinessWeek’s article and slide show here: article, slide show.
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