The great distractor that is internet is the subject of this post from Dey Da. He also equates it with the intellectual equivalent of Kubla Khan’s “miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice.”

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This is the first time I am in this cold a weather. Check the photo I took of the compass in the rental 9 degrees fahrenheit. Last time I was in this cold would have been in Louisville about 14 degrees.

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Came across The 9 Men who run China via Tim Iacono. Amazing, never knew Chinese policies are decided by engineers at the top in Politburo Standing Committee.

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Tim talks about the growing inventory of Hummers at the local dealer in sunny and beautiful San Diego(the epicenter of Housing Bubble). He even clicked few photographs from the so called undisclosed location

What I liked about the post was that it shows the power of blogging or an excellent piece of citizen journalism as Dan Gilmore of BayOSphere calls it. Tim ends the post with a thoughtful metaphor

The reason that the story of rapidly rising Hummer inventory is so interesting and so amusing, is that America’s most ostentatious Sport Utility Vehicle, the Hummer SUV, is a metaphor for America in the world today - overweight, overpriced, inefficient, and unloved.

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One of the prime reasons I moved from yahoo mail to gmail was the conversations feature provided by Gmail. You can see this feature in all glory in the following image. What it shows is the response to my Happy Diwali email I sent to few of my friends

In the non-conversation world I might have ended with that many emails and it would have been so not-cool to manage them. Here on Gmail I have them tied in a nice bundle.

Technorati Tags: gmail, diwali

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May the festival of lights bring light of joy and prosperity to every day of your life…

 

 to every one.

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Atanu Dey, the same guy who wrote “Stuff Matters” has another excellent post on the importance of accountability or ownership for a prospering economy. Excerpt from the post -

The market is slowly coming into being in India. The law is flawed. We need to get the “f” and the “ed” out of “flawed” to get some good law. What that means is we need to get the courts to move. Many trades don’t occur because contracts cannot be enforced by a court system which has a reported backlog of about 300-odd years. Finally, we need to make people owners so that they can properly care for their charge and this they will do only if they have an incentive to perform their duty, which they will do if credible commitments can be made about public flogging.

I was amused when he recommended public flogging as the way to mend public officials. I am sure it was not his intent but a by-product of the sense of humor I am sure he picked from the sunny-sunny California. 

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