A couple of days ago, International Women's Day was celebrated. Even if some friends get offended by this day, I believe it's important to highlight how, unfortunately, there are differences between men and women, as reported by the WEF Gender Gap Report:

It's nice to see how this index is really good in Europe, particularly in the Scandinavian countries. Kudos to Iceland.

Country	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Iceland	0.7813	0.7836	0.7999	0.8276	0.8496	0.8530	0.8640	0.8731	0.8594
Finland	0.7958	0.8044	0.8195	0.8252	0.8260	0.8383	0.8451	0.8421	0.8453
Norway	0.7994	0.8059	0.8239	0.8227	0.8404	0.8404	0.8403	0.8417	0.8374
Sweden	0.8133	0.8146	0.8139	0.8139	0.8024	0.8044	0.8159	0.8129	0.8165
Denmark	0.7462	0.7519	0.7538	0.7628	0.7719	0.7778	0.7777	0.7779	0.8025
Nicaragua	0.6566	0.6458	0.6747	0.7002	0.7176	0.7245	0.7697	0.7715	0.7894
Ireland	0.7335	0.7457	0.7518	0.7597	0.7773	0.7830	0.7839	0.7823	0.7850
Philippines	0.7516	0.7629	0.7568	0.7579	0.7654	0.7685	0.7757	0.7832	0.7814
Belgium	0.7078	0.7198	0.7163	0.7165	0.7509	0.7531	0.7652	0.7684	0.7809

Time passes really fast! A year ago I was exploring the beautiful city of Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand. Nice memories from my career break.

Asylum is defined as the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee, mainly for fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion. Due to the raging conflict in Syria, there has been a sharp increase in the number of refugees coming to Europe.

The latest quarterly data report by Eurostat demonstrates this upward trend. Germany and Sweden are the countries that have welcomed the highest number of asylum seekers.

I hadn't checked the operating system market share for desktop and mobile in a while. Based on data from StatCounter, the usual suspects dominate: Windows and Android lead in each sector, respectively. Next page