April 20 04
The world’s largest democracy goes to vote.. 670 million registered voters, 16 official languages, 28 states and a deep rooted belief in democracy. India goes to vote beginning monday in the world’s most massive elections till date. Another first is the use of electronic voting machines throughout the nation which (to quote from reuters) “have [...]
April 20 04
Firing The Donald Trump has probably gained more out of ‘The Apprentice’ than any of the winners or losers. Trump comes across as a egomaniac to me with the way he promotes his buildings, casinos and homes, all of which are branded Trump with a capital ‘T’. While B-school students across the country may have [...]
April 13 04
Hooha over Google’s Gmail! How stupid can people get! A California senator is drafting legislation to prevent Google from releasing Gmail out of privacy concerns. She along with many others are concerned that it will be an invasion of privacy since Google will scan emails to display relevant text ads. Will someone tell the honorable [...]
April 9 04
Imagine Cup at ASU Robert McLaws seems to be pretty impressed by some of the work he saw at the Imagine Cup at ASU where he was one of the judges. His blog on that subject is very interesting. Now I wish I’d spent some time working on something I’d been planning with Vivek. Robert [...]
April 9 04
I don’t post jokes here, but this one is too funny to be left alone. From the rec.humor.funny archives : “I was in the VIP lounge last week en route to Seattle. Whilst in the lounge, I noticed Bill Gates sitting on the Chesterfield enjoying a cognac. I was meeting with a very important client [...]
April 4 04
Life on a Google Server Farm You thought the giant Google server farms crunching numbers and letters to index millions of pages and gazillions of search queries every day were just dry unromantic places with rows of computers with blinking lights and humming fans? You are sadly mistaken.
April 1 04
Google’s Lunaplex After research centers in US, India and Switzerland, the Google geniuses are relocating to the moon! Google plans to start a hosting and research center on the moon in the spring of 2007 and has already posted a job description on their website for their Copernicus Center. Yes, it’s an April fool prank, [...]
April 1 04
How India is saving Capitalism! Salon goes onsite to Chennai with Katharine Mieszkowski in the first of a series of articles that seek to investigate the offshoring phenemenon that’s become a sore point with most tech workers in the US. As Katharine says, the problem originated right here in the US. Not always because of [...]