10 Worst Company Domains

Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other see it and not just as you think it looks. Failure to do this may result in situations such as the following (legitimate) companies who deal in everyday humdrum products and services but clearly didn’t give their domain names enough consideration:

1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com

5. Then of course, there’s the Italian Power Generator company… www.powergenitalia.com

6. And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales: www.molestationnursery.com

7. If you’re looking for computer software, there’s always www.ipanywhere.com

8. Welcome to the First Cumming Methodist Church. Their website is www.cummingfirst.com

9. Then, of course, there’s these brainless art designers, and their whacky website: www.speedofart.com

10. Want to holiday in Lake Tahoe? Try their brochure website at www.gotahoe.com

An Interesting Reflection : Slow Down Culture

This is a very interesting reflection of someone i do not know personally.. just received thru email from a good friend of mine..

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule.

Globalized processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to possess a need to see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better results.

Said in other words:
1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.
2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.
3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.
4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned companies. Volvo supplies the NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive their car to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, neither on the second or third. One morning I asked, "Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot." To which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think? Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe named Slow Food. This movement establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness" generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or
the "quality of being". French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has brought forth the US' attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!".

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality, productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It
means reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the "now", present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services, without losing the essence of spirit.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so anxious of living the future that they forget to live the
present, which is the only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans".

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized world.

For a friend...

I can’t imagine living a life where everything around and every single event is perfectly predictable. Indeed if there exist such a condition, that is utterly flat and boring life to live with. Everyday we are faced with so many challenges of different intensities… a handful of questions without knowing where to get the answers… and if by chance there is an answer we could get a grip on, it is oftentimes very to difficult to explain and understand. Life is full of imperfections… excitingly and ironically, that makes life meaningful… that gives room for growth… and that keeps all of us moving as if in a wheel.

Of Love and Marriage...

Love and Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed...

And now after more than five years into it, I realized it was wrong to think then that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love -- whatever that is -- appears to me as an offspring of both spiritual and physical affinity. An affinity that is genuinely created in a moment, otherwise it will never be created for years.

But some of my views about love have remained unchanged. I still think that love is more than sending flowers and greetings, holding hands, kissing, and all of those "sweet" things that look to mean love. And you wouldn't believe that I never sent flowers to the woman I married... not once. I thought of love as the unending commitment -- putting up with one another and always looking for the best in them even when they are annoying you. It’s realizing that no one is ever going to be perfect, but not letting that bother you. It’s about loving a person for their imperfections as much as their good qualities. To see reality--not as you both expect it to be but as it is. The bottom line is that people are never perfect, but love can be, and doing that makes it that. A lot of people waste time looking for the perfect partner, instead of creating the perfect love.

I don’t want to get all poetic but I remember six years ago, I met this woman, whom I gotten to know intimately, and after some time of enjoying together -- those moments of life that are utterly very very simple -- have realized then that I feel a very peculiar way when I am around her, or talking to her, or otherwise thinking about her. I had no clear explanation for what constitutes that feeling, I only knew that it seems to be as unique and indescribable. We were literally sharing a life. That simple. However, along with sharing a life comes this amazing realization – I am sharing a life, I am one person yet only together am I whole, and though I may not have been aware of it before, I am only a half – and like a puzzle, she perfectly fits... that when together, the other parts bring twice as much depth and meaning to both of us.

Of love and marriage, I think it’s all about the thoughts and the choices that we make. I never ascribed that someone is ever going to fit that perfect ideal picture of what we desire in a future partner. You can go on spending everything searching for that person forever... and you are right, there will never be a way to deny the possibility of finding someone better than the person you have now. But being honest with yourself... letting the natural order of things flow and take its heavenly mapped waves, getting out of your fictional beings -- you will surely find yourself in a place where giving up a good thing just on the chance something better comes along in the future is never worth it.

Up to this time, it still blows my mind to think that I have found the love that I have. I grew up thinking that I may not be capable of commitment, that even love can never be permanent, and that happiness and contentment goes with balancing as many partners as you can handle... I'm through with it. I was wrong, and so much proud that I was.