Archive for 2005

Addictive Gravity Game

« 21 October 2005 at 12:38 pm | No Comments
Cool people | Tags: Gravity Game »

AWESOME.
Short post … i’m going back to playing Gravity.



Small Business Partnerships: Communication is key

« 21 October 2005 at 10:40 am | 2 Comments
Personal, My Work, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business MindPillar Startup »

It’s been a hectic few months at my companies (MindPillar and Adeena). New developments … new people, new issues, new projects, new season, many conferences and still a lot of hard work.
One thing that hasn’t changed is the personal/business dynamic that comes from having 3 partners often having very differing viewpoints. And thats after I […]



Creativity and Personal Mastery: now at LBS

« 20 October 2005 at 11:27 am | 2 Comments
Personal, Cool people | Tags: Creativity and Personal Mastery »

Update to this previous post about Creativity and Personal Mastery by Dr. Rao:

Looks like people who want to take this course have another choice … London Business School, according to this article from the Times.
To quote …
“Yet afterwards I started to challenge my assumptions and look at career paths in a different way. I changed […]



Corporations of the Future

« 20 October 2005 at 10:09 am | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: Business Future »

I have come to believe that how, in the past, large corporations were needed to overcome the costs of retaining talent, overcome the complexities of a logistics infrastructure to bring together raw materials and get to market finished products - today those all problems have been solved by the divide and conquer strategy.
It is […]



The big tabloid

« 19 October 2005 at 11:15 pm | No Comments
Nuisance | Tags: timesofindia newspaper tabloid »

Ok, so Surabhi and I are having discussions about what good are tabloids for …
(for the sake of this post read Tabloid as Sensationalist, Yellow journalism, etc)
Later in the discussion she raises the question … the British have their tabloids (The Sun, Daily Mirror, etc), the Americans have theirs (The Sun or WWN)… but you […]



Experience before a startup: Opposite but not wrong

« 14 October 2005 at 4:29 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, My Work, Cool people | Tags: »

Rick Segal recently interviewed former Microsoft employees on their way to greener pastures and/or their own startups.
I look at his article from a different point of view.
Whats a better way to go? First working in a bigger corporation, gaining a ton of experience, saving up enough money over the years to fund your startup, making […]



Apple FrontRow vs. Windows Media Center

« 13 October 2005 at 10:38 am | No Comments
Cool people, Techy | Tags: Media Center Apple FrontRow »

Ok, so Apple goes ahead and releases a single software that pretty much undermines most of the push behind Microsoft’s Media Center Edition of Windows XP.
WooHoo!
I could almost go ahead and whisper that Apple copied M$, but wait … they converted an entire M$ OS into a single program … and they converted a convulted […]



IIPM: get a REAL legal advisor

« 11 October 2005 at 10:34 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Nuisance | Tags: IIPM moron »

Recently, a non accredited private money making office school in India emailed legal notices to a few bloggers asking them to stop linking to articles exposing their incorrect marketing tactics.
IIPM, go get a REAL legal advisor so you understand that emails such as this and this and these are utter nonsense and will only get […]



Oily trackball ball

« 11 October 2005 at 7:55 pm | 1 Comment
Nuisance | Tags: »

Ok, so I let a specific someone use the trackball on my computer, while they were moisturizing/oiling their face/hair.
And now I’m stuck with an overly oily trackball ball.
This sucks.
You know who you are …
Time to get out the 40% solution of Isopropyl alcohol*
* Common rubbing alcohol is 70% solution, add appropriate water, […]



666 emails … somebody get me a time out!

« 11 October 2005 at 2:00 pm | 2 Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Too many emails to read, sort through, and then store … can I, may I, should I, what if I, just click on delete all?!!
Oh, and it is 666 … so might be I should just let them be …!

Yeah, it’s now at 696 while I blogged!
And, thats all 0% spam!!!




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