My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide for the past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are getting the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They�re actively sabotaging their own […]
DVD Review: ‘Dhoom 2’ is Cool and Brilliant
Very rarely we do come across Hindi films that involves cops and robbers stories and once a movie that falls in this catagory comes our way, it becomes the talk of the town. Directed by Sanjay Gadhvi, “Dhoom 2” combines form and content so beautifully that it has been treated with the right balance of […]
My Second Life
In another universe, I am a woman. She only exists in a virtual world, as an "avatar" in an online game called Second Life. My avatar is currently an attractive, thin blonde woman who enjoys flying, undressing and standing still in the middle of empty buildings and changing her clothes. These aren’t really her hobbies, […]
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE
Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
Vetoing Violent Video in EU
EU Banning Violent Video Games After watching the video game "Manhunt" EU politicians agreed: Games like this must be banned. Germany the current EU president initiated the debate after several recent violent attacks in Germany committed by youths who played video games. The first example was in April 2002 when former Erfurt school pupil […]
Accidental Motorist
Buenos Aires — Before arriving in Argentina over two years ago, I had been warned about driving here. Be careful, my wife had said, they’re crazy. Well, I replied, Baltimore drivers are crazy too. She shook her head and smiled. The first thing you notice about the roads of Buenos Aires is the size. […]