Last month or so I’ve been busy organizing BarCamp Zagreb and developing a Web project. I also took time to re-think the future of this blog. Then I decided that, after one year, it’s time for change.
I will no longer maintain this blog.
In this form, that is. I will continue to write but now it […]

Last Sunday my father-in-law passed away. No one expected this, as he wasn’t very old and he was of a very good health. On Thursday the whole family and many friends gathered at the funeral.
I remember the words of a priest who lead the ceremony. He said that my father-in-law was prepared to die, meaning that he had […]

Old Romans distinguished between three kinds of properties:

res privatae, things that belong to a person or a family,
res publicae, things built for public use and
res communes, things that are used by all, like air and water.

Since then, we did lot to make as much things private as possible. We even invented patent offices to privatize […]

Today I was twice accused of being an Internet addict, first by my wife and then by a friend. Because I was siting in front of PC for half of day. Like I don’t do that every single workday!
I just tried to collect material for my essay.
My worst addiction was the one to the cigarettes. […]

New school year in Croatia begun this week. From this year, besides primary school, my daughther attends also a dancing school. After three years of pre-school classes the whole thing became more serious, with classes four times a week, ballet dancing and music theory.
She likes dancing alot and she enjoy although classes are in the […]

Today is precisely two weeks since my last post.
The reason for such unusualy long time between posts is that I simply slowed down. No, I haven’t been laying on the beach, drinking a beer and doing nothing. Actually last three weeks were very busy although I was officially on holidays. Most of the time I was occupied […]

C. Auguste Dupin, one of the main characters in Murders in Rue Morgue, a novel by Edgar Allan Poe, had an excellent analytical skills; he was able, to guess his friend’s thoughts, even after fifteen minutes of silence, using only his ingenious power of deduction. You will agree that in most cases somebodies thoughts are […]

Half a year ago the direction of my professional career changed. I started my professional work twelve years ago as a computer programmer. Since then software development was a major part of my daily work. I created a multimedia software, then a software for a bank and then software for a meat industry. Six […]

Those three words form a basis of one of the methods to train dogs, developed and popularized by “dog whisperer” Cesar Milan.
Our lives are also influenced by rules, boundaries and limits. Sometimes they are set to increase our safety, like speed limits and state boundaries. Sometimes they are just imagined lines, set by either others or ourselves, that divide expected from […]

We, parents, often think that the best way to establish a strong connection with our children is to become their friends. This is wrong for several reasons.
We can’t be their friends
They are inhabitants of the future world. As Khalil Gibran’s Prophet said:
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not […]