Someone forwarded me this today, I think it deserves a read and a bit of contemplation. - S
The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the [...]
Sathya has a good collection of all the transcripts(or his summary where one is not available) from the various lectures he attends in Chennai. For those who would miss them by being away from chennai, Sathya is doing a great favor. Very thoughtful of him to include the contact information related to the speeches.
[via ScriptingNews] I had no clue until her name and her recent essay on blogs “The Blogs Must Be Crazy“, in comparison to MSM (main-stream media), is being touted all over the blogosphere. ScriptingNews’ Dave Winer [a widely read blogger] reckons that we should “savor every word” of Noonan’s writeup. I did. And found some [...]
A project concieved long time ago ( 1979 ) came to reality this past weekend in Central Park, Manhattan. “The Gates”, an art of its own kind was unveiled around the 23 mile stretch of central parks inner roads. While it is tough for me to understand what the creators, Artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude were [...]
[via kribs] This blog by an intern at the US consulate in chennai is an interesting read. This specific blog about the first bio-visa day ( when they started finger printing visa applicants ) is funny because of the way he has written the official names of the stars: rakkia gounder sivakumar surya alias our [...]
At last, I lined up my old Compaq presario 6600 for donation through Cristina Foundation. They have a simple website that lets you submit a request with the details of your computer. They say they will arrage for a pick up or a local drop off. That I would have to see how it works [...]
I subscribe and read Business2.0 but FastCompany is an equally good magazine for the tech industry. I browse the FastCompany blogs once in a while and ended up in this good write up which I think every avid reader must read. Written by Slacker Manager after being inspired by the book, Tim Sanders’ “Love Is [...]
I am getting 500 comments a day. I wish I could be proud of it. Damn it. I am sick of it. Sick of deleting texas hold’em poker comments everyday. I will shoot this b’s (up their a’s) who stay up all night write this spammers.
From Today, I am unceremoniously discontinuing the feature to add [...]
Shai Agassi is probably one of the youngest to be in top executive positions in the IT industry today. I couldnt find his exact age but from various references I am guessing he is 37. He is an executive board member at SAP.
I was reading a bit about this guy and landed up in this [...]
I read this quote somewhere: Pessimist is a person who looks both ways when crossing a one-way street.
I wonder if a lot of fellow-Indians like me, crossing one-way streets in US should be classified as Pessimists.
The first thing a parent teaches a grown-up kid in India is ‘Listen! Look both ways before crossing”. [...]