OLGA is Dead

Dear Olga,

It has come to my understanding that you have left us - may be for ever. What a pity.

Through the years you have been a reference site for many trying to learn new tunes on their guitar. You have been like a friend which could be visited to learn something new on the guitar. Like old friends for years and years having learned from each other, you have been there. Now you are gone.

What does this mean? When you, dear OLGA, is gone, many guitar players will ask, WHY. Because there have never been illegal to learn a new tune on the guitar from a friend. The lyrics can often be found in the booklet of a CD, and what the friends have to do is to put some letters (and numbers) between the lines showing which chords to be used, and perhaps add tablature now and then. This is how a tradition on playing guitar has gone like a legacy from guitar player to guitar player. From grandfather to father to son. In the old days there was no tablature, there was no internet, there was no other way to learn new tunes on the guitar than learning from someone else or be teaching one self.

Dear OLGA, what if I write a lyric, put on the chords and give it to my friend, will I then be in conflict with the law? I don't think so.

There are millions of guitarists who would love to see you back again, dear OLGA.

When will you be back?

Using Experience

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Anonymus)

It seems to me that the US is good at using people whome have gained experience through the years of dutyful working for a company or government.

John Murtha (74) is now back in his old role as chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, where he will be using his experience which he gained by being a Vietnam veteran.

Condoleezza Rice (52) became Secretary of State on January 26, 2005. Prior to this, she was the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, since January, 2001.

In Norway we have a tradition for not using people who have gained experience. Are you older than 40 years of age, you will have trouble in getting a new job. In Norway we may say it is an age discrimination as seniors are more or less "out of business".

Is this good politics for the Norwegian corporate world?

TIME Kept The Promise

On saturday I received my TIME Vol. 169 No 5 just ahead of the weekend. Now TIME has proved that the promise can be held. Hopefully it will.

My apologizes (for now) to TIME.

TIME - Not Keeping The Promise

In TIME Vol. 169, No. 3, in the Managing Editor's "To Our Readers" Mr. Stengel writes in his column;

We' ve changed our production schedule because the news environment has changed, and because we've been listening to you. Over and over, we've heard that our subscribers put the magazine aside to read on the weekend. The solution was pretty simple: let's get you the magazine when you want it.

Yesterday, on Wednesday after the weekend, I received my copy of TIME Vol. 169, No 4.
Mr. Managing Editor; don't you keep your promises?

TIME's Promise

Having just renewed my subscrition for TIME, but being too late for continous delivery, I guess it may take some weeks before the subscription starts again. For that reason I went to the newsstand and bought a copy (Vol. 169, No. 3).

Reading the Managing Editor's "To Our Readers" I got a pleasant surprice. Mr. Stengel writes in his column that

We' ve changed our production schedule because the news environment has changed, and because we've been listening to you. Over and over, we've heard that our subscribers put the magazine aside to read on the weekend. The solution was pretty simple: let's get you the magazine when you want it.

I really must say I'm looking forward to receiving the magazine before the weekend and not at the time I have received it for 6 years - on thursday after the weekend.