We all have different futures, and in William Gibson’s famous words, “future is not evenly distributed”. It is up to us to built it, and we certainly had with us some of the people who have a shot at influencing it with brilliant ideas. See the Lift09 talks and for more check the blogs, Flickr and Twitter.

During days of conference Sandbox (http://www.sandbox-network.com), a global network for extraordinary young talents together with LIFT Conference organised a dinner with the same topic bringing together extraordinary young achievers under age of 30 to network, exchange ideas and talk about some questions related to this years’ conference topic, “Where did the future go?”.

LIFT Conference is the highest reccomended conference in Europe, this year was amazing to see Vint Cerf, Google Evangelist talking about Interplanetary Internet (see video below)

We had a great party last night. People never stopped singing. Many were crying with joy, thinking about all we lost in the war. We have fought hard for this independence and we deserve it. Of course, Kosovo’s economy is not brilliant at the moment. But I’m confident about the future because we have many young people; more than 50% of the country is under 35. They generally speak English, because we’ve lived eight years under the mandate of the UN, and they’re well trained in the domain of new technologies and the internet – 23% of Albanians have Internet access and development is quick. So Albania is an ideal place for industries to use for some of their activities. That’s what happened in Estonia, which became quite powerful in the new-technology domain after its independence. We can do that too.

The foreign media worries a lot about the Serbs in Kosovo being persecuted, but there’s no chance that will happen. Firstly because we’re not naïve. We haven’t waited all this time for our independence to throw it all away now, especially when the Serb minority doesn’t even pose a problem. Secondly, we signed the Ahtisaari agreement, from the ex-president of Finland that was posted to Kosovo by the UN to protect the Serbian minority. Most of the Serbs over here are much better treated than the Kosovars over there. In fact, they’re even privileged.

I’d say that more than 90% of the population is waiting for EU integration. I don’t think our independence will start any new wars. Problems in Yugoslavia were started in Kosovo, and they’ll end with Kosovo too.”

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I will launch the new version of my blog and brand logo designed by trokit.com

As the end of the year is approaching I already booked myself to have some trips outside the country visiting some European capitals. I will be from 29th December 2006 until 07 January 2007 in Berlin, which means that I will celebrate there New Year’s Eve . There is a party announced by NOKIA on Brandenburg Gate on New Year Countdown. During my time in Berlin I will be visiting many cultural places and political.

During my stay in Berlin I will check if I can attend the last day of 23rd Chaos Communication Congress
which is a four-day conference on technology, society and utopia.

After a week I will head for Copenhagen 07.01 – 14.01 to do a private visit and this time to explore some places around. I will keep updated via Twitter which is in the right side of my blog.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2007

Artist Mimoza Xhakli has put her painting “Red Dress” in auctions at Lauritz.com . You can bid for buying this modern painting at their official site. The auction closes in 6 days from today (11 Dec 2006).

Mimoza Xhakli Jashari graduated Academy of Arts in Prishtina, Kosova. She lives and work in Copenhagen, Denmark now. Many critics rated her as an artist with bright painting career.

Being fan of Biathlon sports for ages, after the first bullet that I shooted I started to like this sport, because it requires fully concentration and you see the progress more you practice. I will try it this week as soon i get the yearly membership from Kosovo Federation of Shooting.

In both movies I like the movements and the interactivity between scenes that only Charlie Kaufman is art master on that. Since his job really impressed me on my new list of watching will be Being John Malkovich movie and reading of the book An Unauthorized Autobiography of Barris.

“My name is Charles Hirsch Barris. I have written pop songs. I have been a television producer. I am responsible for polluting the airwaves with mind numbing puerile entertainment. In addition, I have murdered 33 human beings.”

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