Congrats to President Obama

Wow, so CA closed the deal . Many many congrats to Barack Obama. It is a historic moment in the US history. Watching so many people jubilant in Grant Park is fun. A good break from the melancholy financial mess scene.

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A Good SOA Analogy

Thomas Otter was mulling over how analogies are a great tool in internalizing new concepts like SOA. His analogy of pointing the difference between a laptop/notebook and Desktop is a good one and points to the loosely coupled and tightly coupled systems. There is another analogy I really like and I believe is a good [...]

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People want to connect

All of us have seen the rise of social software wave in the last few years. If I were to put these software on human life scale – wikis and forums would be the oldies, blogs the middle age folks, FaceBook-Myspace-Orkut-LinkedIn as the young adults and twitter, friendfeed as the teens. The underlying human behavior [...]

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Internalize

A quick look up for the meaning of internalize at answers.com tells me it is “to take in and make an integral part of one’s attitudes or beliefs”. Over the years I have realized that it takes quite a long time for ideas to “really” sink in. You might read a book on behavioral economics [...]

I have just started reading “Do you matter?” by Apple design guru Robert Brunner and Stewart Emery. In the very first chapter I came across a paragraph which is just too good to be read alone
The iPod is an iconic product of our time, a glorious example of design and business success. So close your [...]

I am sure you have heard the news of new MacBooks. As anything Apple these days you have to admire the industrial design and thought that has gone into building this. The “brick” design or unibody design is quite an innovation for notebooks. Do watch this video detailing the manufacturing and design process and see [...]

Dr. Krugman wins Noble

Over the years I have grown fond of economics. I stumbled across Brad deLong’s blog and started reading some stuff about economics. Then I read “The Great Unraveling” and it was a pleasure to read the ways Dr. Krugman explained some of the concepts using simple models. For the last few months I have been [...]

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Tryst with destiny – now in tags

I came to know about Wordle a service which can turn any text into tags. See how independence day speech by Nehru looks in tags

Bay Area Renting – experience needed

Only experienced renters please

Amazon down?

It is 11:50 pm PST. Is it just me or there is a temporary glitch in the matrix. What does it mean for EC2 customers?

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