Cool car to buy

I am planning to buy a new car. I don't want to have a car that everyone has. I want something extraordinary. I started my list with 5-6 models and finally reduced it to 3: Mini Clubman, Smart Coupe and Mercedes B-Class. My heart is with the smart but I cannot decide: The pros are: It is economic, compact and maybe as cool as a sportscar. The contras are: small volume and unknown security limits. Well, well I think I go for Smart :))

Future of computer programs

Me and my team use lots of MS Excel makros. These are visual basic programs which enable to do daily tasks much faster. Last friday I needed to change something in one of them on my own because two of my experts have left the company in recent months. The 3 hour struggle made me think about the future of computer programs:
Today if I want to let do something with the code, I have to define it exactly according to that particular computer language. If I don't, it doesn't work. My vision is that in the near future the programs will "understand" what you try to say. For example you will only write a text the way you wish to describe: "i want you to compare coumn x with column y but there is the condition z which should be eliminated ..." The computer will sense what you mean and realize!

Flamm restaurant Asmalımescit is descending

In April I wrote that the Flamm restaurant in Asmalımescit is my favourite to eat good food, especially starters.
Hereby I edit my opinion on 5 May 2008. The last two times we were there I saw signs that the quality has started to fall dawn slowly. There is "something" missing; something what really good restaurants have and ordinary don't. Slower service, untrained staff, food overcooked, coffee tastes bad, digestion is difficult etc. Sadly, that's the fate of many restaurants. If you don't standardize the service and food quality to a certain level, you lose the customer.

Changa in the museum and in my heart.

If the Changa in the Sabancı Museum would be located in walking distance to my house, by now I was already an alcoholic because of its vodka-satsuma. Wow, what was that! This is the best satsuma I have ever drunk. They mix vodka with satsuma mandarine and green lemons of Bodrum, and here you have the drink of my summer 2008. The menu was a "light" version of Changa in Sıraselviler where I felt they have reduced the radicality of fusion food served in the main restaurant a little bit. There were nice people in the restaurant and the ambiance can only get better when the terrace opens in summer. I already know where I will celebrate my birthday!

The Miro exhibition in Pera Museum Tepebaşı

I am so glad that new museums like Istanbul Modern, Pera, Rahmi Koç have brought an acceleration to the art activities in Istanbul. The Miro exhibition started on 3 May in Pera Museum Tepebaşı. The pictures and sculptures of Miro are like the ones of a 5 year old child, yet if you look at them longer, you see the purity, calmless and the humour. He is a lucky artist, having found the place he deserved when he was alive. What impressed me most is the video of an interview with him. By then, he was already 80 years old; yet he was still so passionate about his work and future plans. This showed me: whatever you do as job, whether you are an artist, a manager, an engineer, a plummer..., loving your work makes great difference.

Current exhibitions in Istanbul Museum of Modern Art

Istanbul Museum od Modern Art gave the art loving Istanbulers a fresh air. Every2-3 months I go there to check out the exhibitions and drink a cup of coffee enjoying the marvellous view. The exhibitions "cities of designs" and russian fotography are interesting. There are also films related to the first one, "Helvetica" and My father the architect".

100 most influencial people accoring to Time Magazine

Each year Time magazine selects the 100 most influencial people of the recent year. Apart from big leaders and international celebrities, most of the people in the list are the ones who do charity activities or demonstrate against undemocratic conditions of their country in different ways. Honestly, there are many people who have done good things, helped many people; but whether they are really most influencial globally or whether from the eyes of the US media, is arguable.
I should say that I am proud that a Turk is also in the list; Mehmet Öz.