More big toy cars to the people!

Oh, imagine if we all could go around in cars like this!

(This is a commercial for a Swedish lottery, it has no subtitles, but it’s about a man who never managed to get his driving license. Now he won on the lottery…)

Israel ready for war with Iran?

I feel uncomfortable. I read the news. Israel declares that they are ready for 30 days of war with Iran. Who wants that war? My father was born 1916. He hated war. He always said that common people never want war. ”It’s only the high generals that want war, so why can’t they have a fight with each other, and spare the people?”

In March Ronny Edry started the campaign Israel loves Iran. It is based on the fact that it’s not the people who wants war, it’s not the people that wants to kill humans in another country, because they don’t even know them! An if you learn to know someone in the enemies country, then you really don’t want any war. Ronny’s campaign is about getting more people to know each other across the borders.

I did an interview with Ronny in July – for the book I’m writing about social media. That’s why I know him a little bit more than I did before. And that’s enough to give me the creeps when I hear Israel talk about war and I start to worry in my heart. That’s exactly the point with Ronny’s campaign.

Here is Ronny on a new pic that I think is created today because of the growing threat.

On Facebook he also writes:
We are millions of people who will be hurt. Will be drafted, will have to fight, loose our lives, our relatives. We, parents from TelAviv and Teheran will have to run with our children to the shelters and pray the missiles will miss us. 
But they will fall somewhere, on someone.

Those last few days the sound of war is becoming louder.
So once again, load and clear, we are saying NO to this war 
We saying to the people of Iran: We Love You

Ronny and Michal, TelAviv, ISRAEL

At the picture below is Ronny’s wife Michal. I never spoke to her, but since she’s married to Ronny, she’s part of why I feel worry in my body. Look into her eyes. Look into Ronny’s eyes.

Who in the whole wide world wants the war?

Update: of course there is a similar webpage in Iran, actually there are more than 50 facebookpages that has followed from Ronny’s first attempt.

Watch the short movie Cupcakes (my daughter Alice plays one of the leading roles)

SNYGGA BRÖST (English title: Cupcakes) English subtitles from ICEFIRE on Vimeo.

They filmed this short movie in 2010 and now, at last, is it possible to watch it on internet. Watch Cupcakes with english subtitles. My daughter Alice plays Anna. It’s her first movie ever.

Script and directing by Ellinor Isenberg.

Update: now it’s possible to embed the code so I have updated this blogpost!

Trying to understand the stock market and Apple

I bought some Apple stocks in January. I can willingly admit that I was happily surprised when the shares went up to $644 in the middle of April – so that might have been a bit too fast. It was like the price had to go down and so it did. That didn’t surprise me. What surprises me right now is that the price doesn’t go up again. According to all the information I read about Apple it keeps on being a totally amazing company with a bright future.

Imagine when Apple products starts to sell in China… wow! Apple is adjusting their products to answer to the special needs in China – they do that because China is an extremely important market. From what I learned they might same the same about of iPhones in China as they do in USA. That’s a whole lot of iPhones!

The keynote from the WWDC showed us some fantastic new features in both MacOS and iOS and also outstanding apps and new MacBooks.

When autumn comes a lot of schools will start to use iPads. They specifically want iPads, not Kindle or any other tablet. iPad gives quality and a lot of apps to chose from. The interesting thing is that Android who is an ”open system” that claims to give more choices to the customer, doesn’t intact give so many choices to the customer when it comes to the number of apps…

So, how come the price of Apple shares doesn’t move upwards? I know that I will keep my Apple shares for a very long time.

This is a cool video about Ilir Latifi – a Swedish professional MMA fighter

I am not really interested in nor sports nor fighting, but this video interests me. They have managed to capture the person behind the fighting in a respectful way.