The time just before a new year starts is exciting because while we are physically still living in 2007, our minds are already wandering towards the next year. It’s the time when we tend to take a look at how the past year looked like and set goals for the next year.

I use Google Reader to follow what’s happening in the blogging world, and whenever I come across an insanely interesting post, I star it. This week I took a plunge back in history and decided to go through all the starred blog posts from this year.

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I love Christmas!

Oh, it’s today, in case you have forgotten. Or tomorrow, depending on which day you celebrate Christmas on. There are people from more than 25 countries reading this blog, so I’m sure your Christmas traditions differ from mine. And I find that insanely interesting.

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It’s only a matter of time. You are going to take over the world.

But when that happens, will you know what to do with all the power? Will you use it just to get more power? Or will you be the politician who continuously uses his power to veto down good initiatives just because they don’t bring you and your supporters more money?

Or maybe you will belong to the growing group of people who actually will make a difference?

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So, you are insanely interested in pretty much everything. Or that’s at least what I’m going to assume from now on. After all, you did subscribe to my RSS feed, didn’t you?

Well, even if you didn’t, now it’s time for my first survival strategy for the insanely interested. Freelancing.

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About a week ago, on Thursday night, my wife got struck by a high fever. 39 degrees Celsius (102,2 degrees Fahrenheit). She couldn’t get up from bed, so I had to stay home and take care of her and our baby boy. She was sick for the whole week-end, and when she started to get better on Sunday, Oiva was next. 40,2 degrees Celsius (104,4 Fahrenheit). And finally on Monday evening my resistance broke and I found myself trembling in bed (a bit over 39).

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A few days ago I was chatting with Shane from Shane and Peter and he sent me a question saying he’s very proud of it. He told me that the question was one from a set of interview questions he was planning to send out to some interesting entrepreneurs out there.

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What if I told you that I want to be a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician, poet and a writer?

If that scares you, you belong to the vast majority of people who believe the modern day mantra of specialization and say that a Jack of all trades is master of none.

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It’s again the time of year when we get to decorate our homes with candles and warm colors, and listen to the Christmas carols that bring back all the memories from childhood.

December.

But before we start enjoying the friendliest month of the year, let’s take a look back at another insanely interesting month: November.

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