Ashtrays, wineglasses and neurotransmitters :)

If you ask most of your friends have they ever tried some drugs you’ll definitely get the “No” answer. But that would not mean really “No”. It would be rather unaware “yes” because alcohol and cigarettes are the same drugs as any MDMA or Speed, just with a lesser level of addiction and side effects. So all that innocent boys and girls are just one step behind those “experienced” who tried hemp and they are in their turn one step behind those more experienced.

I’ve always been interested in how brain works, and not only brain but the whole body. And one interesting thing that I was searching for in all those Wikis some time ago is the explanation of principles of different drugs influence. Today I’ve found in my LiveJournal feed this link. It describes in very simple but still comprehensive form the basics of all that stuff.

It appears that Jellinek was one of the Componence customers some time ago. Tom told me that Jellinek is “an institute that prevents and helps people stopping with addictions but they are a bit too focused on prevention so they think you are an alcoholic if you drink more than 2 beers”. Anyway, they’ve done a good job by creating that fancy animated site.

You may wonder why I have spent some 10 minutes of my time to create this post. I’ve just thought how weird are ways of the internet: you encounter a link in some of your friends live journal, you open it and reads a story, you place a link in your blog, other people can read it and it appears that that company is related to some other company where you were doing some job and in some other 10 minutes you get a lot of new info and understand more then average. I think that is cool and that is the power of the Network.

Let’s count to three… emmm… difficult

In my work I regularly deal with documentation produced by other people. That always enriches me with new ideas, with some fresh examples and sometimes (quite often) some funny things can be encountered.

We all can count to three I believe. That is really simple: 1, 2, 3!

Just now I’ve seen the following in one document:

1. Program status. At this stage of development we will use only three type of statuses:

· Green – everything is all right

· Red – some errors, probably related to the books or if the program schedule overlaps with another program. At this stage should be only verification on overlaps.

So, you see, some people count to three like 1,2 and enough

There are other forms of this phenomenon that can be often seen. For example you ask few questions to a person in an email in form: Question1:…, Question2:…., QuestionN. When you get a reply you expect to see Answer1…, …, AnswerN. You open the reply and there is something like @#%Q!%@^W )))

I think we need to fight with such things fiercely.