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Aodhan Cullen calls himself a born entrepreneur. He has been running businesses since the age of 12, when he set up his own résumé-typing business. As a young teen, he dabbled in Web site design, and it was this experience that gave him the idea to launch StatCounter, the company he founded in 1999 when he was 16.

When Cullen started designing Web pages, his clients repeatedly asked him whether anyone was visiting their Web sites. So, Cullen formed StatCounter and came up with a way to measure the number of hits on Web sites, the geographical location of visitors to sites, the various pages a visitor views on a site, and the keywords they use to find a site. StatCounter currently has more than 1.5 million members and tracks more than 9 billion page views per month across its network of more than 2.2 million Web sites.
The company, which is profitable, claims to be signing up 1,500 new members per day.

Cullen is 24 and from Dublin, Ireland.

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Ben & Mena Trott
The high school sweethearts founded a company that offers popular blogging tools including LiveJournal, Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.

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Michael & Xochi Birch
They took a chance on each other after meeting in a british pub. Six startups later, they have created one of the top 10 social networks in the United States.

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Stewart Butterfield & Caterina Fake
He wooed her with her visions of them building a business together. They sold their second effort to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.

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Here we go, I started something !!! Yes another stupid web comics.

Adam and Eve, a man and a woman, a boy and a girl or any two people you want them to be, talking about anything that passes through my mind on monthly basis. The below is my initial design, the characters are coming from a font I found online, they might be developed later on, into more appealing faces, the whole design might change, the colors, the font, the format, this is just the start …

I will dedicate a special website for my comics soon, … please comment.

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4711.jpg4711 Original Eau de Cologne is one of the oldest brands and benefits from exceptional name recognition throughout the world. Users rate it as “the mother of all Eau de Cologne”. The secret formula for 4711 Original Eau de Cologne is still appreciated across the globe to this day and makes the “aqua mirabilis” an absolute classic without comparison.

The promise has been kept for over 200 years: the use of a unique composition has a positive effect on the mind, body and soul. Essential oils, that are renowned for their aromatherapeutic properties, produce an indescribable feeling of well-being.

4711 Original Eau de Cologne. Smells good. Does good. Is good.

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4711 shop next to the Dom in Cologne (Köln).

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The Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria) is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne, under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture and of the faith and perseverance of the people of the city in which it stands. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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The cathedral is a World Heritage Site, being one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany, and Cologne’s most famous landmark, described by UNESCO as an “exceptional work of human creative genius”. Cologne Cathedral is one of the world’s largest churches, being the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe. For four years, 1880-84, it was the tallest structure in the world, until the completion of the Washington Monument followed by the Eiffel Tower. It has the second-tallest church spires, only surpassed by the single spire of Ulm Cathedral, completed ten years later in 1890. Because of its enormous twin spires, it also presents the largest facade of any church in the world.

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The quire of Cologne Cathedral, measured between the piers, also holds the distinction of having the largest height to width ratio of any Medieval church, 3.6:1, exceeding even Beauvais Cathedral which has a slightly higher vault.

Construction of the Gothic church began in 1248 and took, with interruptions, until 1880 to complete – a period of over six hundred years. It is 144.5 metres long, 86.5 m wide and its two towers are 157 m tall.

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Cologne Cathedral, despite having been left incomplete during the medieval period, eventually became unified as “a masterpiece of exceptional intrinsic value” and “a powerful testimony to the strength and persistence of Christian belief in medieval and modern Europe”, as was befitting a worship-place of the Holy Roman Emperor and the traditional shrine of the Three Kings.

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DHL are the first letters of the last names of the three company founders, Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hillblom and Robert Lynn.

The founders began to personally ship papers by airplane from San Francisco to Honolulu, beginning customs clearance of the ship’s cargo before the actual arrival of the ship and dramatically reducing waiting time in the harbour.

With this concept, a new industry was born: international air express, the rapid delivery of documents and shipments by airplane.

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Deutsche Post World Net and DHL Consolidation

At the beginning of 2002, Deutsche Post World Net became the major shareholder in DHL. By the end of 2002, DHL was 100% owned by Deutsche Post World Net.

In 2003, Deutsche Post World Net consolidated all of its express and logistics activities into one single brand, DHL. The DHL brand was further strengthened by Deutsche Post World Net’s acquisition of Exel in December 2005. The DHL expertise is pooled from a number of companies acquired by Deutsche Post World Net. To name a few:

Deutsche Post Euro Express: in operation since 1997 through internal growth and investments in leading European companies, network for parcel and express services in more than 20 countries, market leader for business customers in Europe.

Danzas: founded in 1815, based in Basel, Switzerland, acquired by Deutsche Post World Net in 2000, world leader in air freight and ranked second in ocean freight. Overland transport and supply chain management complete the Danzas service portfolio.

Air Express International: largest American air freight provider, integrated into the Danzas group in 2001.

Exel: at the time Deutsche Post World Net acquired Exel in December 2005, it had around 111,000 employees in 135 countries. Exel primarily offers transport and logistics solutions for key customers.

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A Berliner Pfannkuchen (known as a Berliner Ballen or simply Berliner outside of Berlin) is a predominantly German and Central European doughnut made from sweet yeast dough fried in fat or oil, with a marmalade or jam filling and usually icing, powdered sugar or conventional sugar on top. They are also sometimes available with a chocolate, champagne, custard, mocha, or advocaat filling, or with no filling at all. The filling is injected using a large syringe after cooking.