The most important event of coming days...

70 millions Turkish citizens wait for the announcement of the candidate of AK party. According to some news, only Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Bülent Arınç and Abdullah Gül know the candidate. Well, we will get our answers to question through the middle of this week unless they miss the registration deadline. The issue is also brought forward by The Economist in the section of "The coming days":

THE registration deadline for candidates hoping to become Turkey’s next president expires in the middle of the week. The seven-year term of the fiercely secular incumbent, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, ends in May. Turkey’s mildly Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, may fancy the job. But recent massive demonstrations show that opponents, perhaps unfairly, fear that his ascent to the presidency would constitute a grave threat to Turkey’s secular republic. And his AK Party members want him to lead them into November’s parliamentary elections to boost their chances of maintaining their huge majority. Mr Erdogan may conclude that he is better off in his current role.

Lovefool...

Nowadays, I mostly listen Lovefool from The Cardigans, which is one of the most joyful song about the suffer of the love. Perhaps, you heard it for almost every romantic movies. Right after I watched the documentary of Enron, I said I gotta find it somewhere and listen to it again anda again. Well, enjoy the lyrics:

Dear, I fear we're facing a problem
you love me no longer, I know
and maybe there is nothing
that I can do to make you do
Mama tells me I shouldn't bother
that I ought just stick to another man
a man that surely deserves me
but I think you do!

So I cry, and I pray and I beg

Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool me
go on and fool me
love me love me
pretend that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me

So I cried, and I begged for you to
Love me love me
say that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me
I can't care about anything but you

Lately I have desperately pondered,
spent my nights awake and I wonder
what I could have done in another way
to make you stay
Reason will not pledge a solution
I will end up lost in confusion
I don't care if you really care
as long as you don't go

So I cry, I pray and I beg

Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool me
go on and fool me
love me love me
pretend that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me

So I cried, and I begged for you to
Love me love me
say that you love me
leave me leave me
just say that you need me
I can't care about anything but you

(anything but you)

Love me love me
say that you love me
fool me fool me
go on and fool me
Love me love me
I know that you need me
I can't care about anything but you

Amazing security at Las Vegas Casinos

Here, I read a blog post about how the security of casinos are taken serious in Las Vegas. Well, the story of a woman might seem simple but it shows how serious every player is taken. Well, interesting story...

Room with a view...

Nowadays, there is this song that I listen when I find time to listen some music. Tony Carey sings "Room with a view":

Well he used to be
a tailor
Sew those suits so fine
And he never heard of failure
And he never tasted wine
And he used to be a leader
When he had someone to lead
And he used to be a father
When he had some mouths to feed

And they say it never rains in LA county
But it gets cold enough to wish you had a few
And he laughts tonight and says
""I finally found me a room with a view
How about you""

He was living in a castle
That he built with his own hands
Out of newspaper and cardboard
He was living off the land

What should I call you "Mister"?

Well, there has been a lot of discussion about Erdoğan's call of Öcalan as a "mister". And Ibrahim wrote a post about the issue after showing funny comics from Bizimcity. Well, I have a few words to say about the issue and you can see it in the comments section.

The Best Career Move?

Well, the post here might not seem to have anything related to your career. The post discusses about William McAdoo who was -according to the post- one of the unknown financial superhero. He was the man who saved the face of the US dollar around the years of first world war and with the help of his work, US eventually turned to be the global financial leader.

I strongly recommend you to read through that article. Because at the end, you will get the most valuable career advise you will ever hear. In every call in which we talk about the career, my father always gives the same advise but I did not take it so seriously up to now. Perhaps, I should start to do so.

Tiresome Interviewing Processes

Well, here, I found a good article about those tiresome interviews. Despite they are just for internship, it is a good demonstration of what someone can face. Well, I do not think anyone here in Bilkent had that kind of rash experiences, but it is still worth reading.

By the way Business week B-schools feed is a great source of information for those of you who want to apply for business school, namely MBA. Right after talking about advantages of RSS, it is time to give some good source of feeds, is not it?

What is RSS?

Well, ever since I knew RSS, it became one of the most useful tools for me. The practical usage of RSS is so huge and so easy that now, instead of checking the websites I am interested in, I usually subscribe to RSS feeds of those web site and start reading the articles of those websites from my favorite RSS Reader (well, I have to mentioned that I first came across to RSS feeds when I first installed IE7, so I suggest you to use it because it does not let you to leave your favorite browser while you are notified with new updates on your RSS subscriptions).

Well, It has been almost 10 months for me to use RSS feeds so heavily but I realize that there are a lot of people around me that say "RSS, hmm, I'm sorry, what was it for?". And to tell the truth, it is not something that you can explain in a few minutes.

But, I came across this beautiful video about RSS, that will be very great start for you to understand what is RSS. For those of you who haven't met RSS yet, go and check it.

Free speech to me..

Free speech to me!

Well, I have discussed the ban of YouTube in Turkey here. And I recommended you to check Information Week’s Weblog for further comments. Well, IW journal Mitch, happened to answered my comments and he said that:

“Sorry, Turk(another poster on the issue) and Sinan, but you're falling into the logical argument that censors everywhere use today. Free speech includes the right to insult other people. Period. Free speech with regulations isn't free, it's regulated speech.”

Of course, I intended to reply it with what I think of free speech. I don’t know how but the posts that I send, happen to be not seen on the page. Well, perhaps they blocked my IP addresses.

Well, darling... Free speech when it comes to me… So you shut up!

Note: My thoughts about free speech is as the following. Well, I figured out to copy it first when third time I tried to send it.

Mitch,

I strongly recommend you to recheck the sources of your knowledge about the freedom of speech. I strongly agree that everyone can have any idea about anything and he has the rights to express it by using any medium. But when it comes to the publicity, there are some bindings that he or she should care. And these are not for the censorship but for preserving the existence and protection of both the speecher and the community (s)he addresses to.

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech, almost every part of the world, the speeches that ignite war propaganda, violence and HATE SPEECH are condemned and prohibition of them does not considered as violation of freedom of speech.

Handcuffing the internet...

Well, the InformationWeek journalist, Mitch Wagner, posted an article to Information's Week' Digital Life Weblog, about recent ban on access to Youtube in Turkey. Well, like in all cases, the western-born journalist gets it as an assault on a "freedom of a speech" -though, this case aside, Turkish authorities often are not at good at dealing with freedom of the speech-.

I tried to give my opinions on the issue there, but I really encourage you to look at and give your thoughts about it.