In the previous post I made an introduction to BitCoin, a new digital currency, independent from governments, banks and corporations – maintained by its users. The post was mainly about the good aspects of such an experiment. 

Now it is time to see how BitCoin actually works and what can be done with it. Read more…

I was aware of the BitCoin, the digital money, for a while now. But that was it. I read the wikis and browsed the web but, for the life of me, couldn't get a grip on the concept. Sure, independent digital currency that works over P2P network sounded great, but that was all I could tell. 

Now, after the mind-fermentation process took place, I can share some basic and easy-to-digest info about BitCoin.  Read more…

You remember the sick bastard Anders Behring Breivik? Yes, the one that killed 69 people on the island of Utoya and further eight in Oslo on the same day. 

Now arrested and on trial, Breivik hits the media again. This time by the choice of the shirts he wears. Yes, that's exactly what I said. And it's not fashion magazines that care about his shirts. And it's not that he turned to Lady Gaga style. On the court sessions, Anders Behring Breivik is wearing Lacoste shirts. And that turns out to be a huge problem for Lacoste.  Read more…

Google finally answered my prayers for a good and usable social network. Google Plus (Google+ or G+ for short) is not a whole week old but it makes a lot of buzz (no pun intended). If you are one of those that managed to get in, make some contacts and play around you know why. While it might be seen as just another social network, and while it does sound and look quite familiar, there are some new features. The most praised one being circles. Which is unprecedented power of managing, sorting and organizing your contacts. Maybe it sounds trivial, but it actually changes the way we'll use social networks from now on. 

Problem is, now when all those people are not just "friends" (most of which being anything but friends) but can (and should) be organized in circles, how to do that in the most useful and efficient way. Here's my (rather early) attempt to make the most of it. Read more…

While browsing this morning I stumbled on an interesting take on the obscurity of modern art as some kind of conspiracy theory of the art elite. Yeah, it does sound exaggerated and I beg to disagree with it. But it's a nice starting point for a discussion I'd like you to join as well. Is the modern art really hat obscure? Is it made that way by intention of an elite that tries to protect its position? 

But let's start from the beginning, by the question the mentioned article tries to answer: What is art? Read more…

… or how I got back to analog painting. 

It was Friday evening… well, night actually, and I was browsing the art of Meso and South American natives. Searching for the inspiration, stealing ideas if you like or maybe just relaxing the contents of my skull by taking a break from one of my depressive episodes.

Lines and shapes started playing in my mind so I fired up the computer. But if there is one thing we can be certain about technology, it is that it will fail us when the creativity calls.  Read more…

Today's thought provoking twit comes from Nicholas J. Ambrose:

You don’t always have to write what you know. After all, who knows about aliens, or magic?

Which is a good advice. I often suffer of need to be exact in every minute detail. Still, I beg to disagree in this particular case.  Read more…