Archive for May, 2007

Firefox 2.0: A Personal record

« 29 May 2007 at 12:59 pm | 1 Comment
Techy, Nuisance | Tags: Software Firefox 2.0 cpu usage »

With my install of Firefox 2.0 on my tablet PC yesterday I set a new personal record.
For the least amount of time I have ever kept a mainstream application on any computer of mine.
Shocked? Me too!I uninstalled Firefox 2.0 within 10 minutes of first using it.
It took over my computer’s usage (taking up 90% to […]



Better timelines

« 29 May 2007 at 10:50 am | No Comments
Cool people, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: Software timeline »

I have this thing for timelines. I really get excited when I see data in the form of timelines … maybe it’s because they give me the historical perspective in a clean and quick format.
Google tried it’s hand at timelines (read my previous post)
However, in my search for the perfect timeline tool … this is […]



Analogies: And why I love then

« 29 May 2007 at 10:33 am | No Comments
General, Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: analogies thinking »

Surabhi often takes issue with my liberal use of analogies when explaining both business/technology related topics as well as daily usage discussions/thoughts.
Her problem seemed to stem from the really obscure analogies I use in my conversations (and also, why I even bothered to use analogies in the first place!)
Well, here ya go … there are other people […]



True cost of maintaining inventory

« 28 May 2007 at 10:20 pm | No Comments
Nuisance, Ideas/Work | Tags: logistics inventory control spare parts »

What is the true cost of maintaining and stocking a physical inventory? For both new products and spare parts?
For example in the auto industry … individual repair shops always seem to be able to get spare parts on demand from some source and usually in a few hours but in the IT/Computer hardware industry, spare parts […]



From “letter to a young american hindu”

« 26 May 2007 at 7:42 pm | No Comments
Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

I need to read it a couple more time to get my thoughts about it better ordered.
Still, take a peek at this “I feel like this too” article by Vijay Prashad titled “Letter to a Young American Hindu“
Though, why title it and limit it to an American Hindu?
I identify with so much of the article, […]



Did anyone ever ask you what you wanted to be when you grew up?

« 25 May 2007 at 7:04 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas

(Paula Poundstone)



Too nerdy me: But it’s not nested correctly

« 25 May 2007 at 6:40 pm | No Comments
Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Call me too nerdy, but when I saw this photo of a keyboard, the thing that stood out for me was the way the [ { ] } keys were shown on the keyboard.
 (See Intel Ziba thin laptop on businessweek.com)
And my mind went …
Wait a second … this is not nested correctly.Shouldn’t it be […]



Israel vs. the Arab world: Better marketing

« 22 May 2007 at 1:44 pm | 1 Comment
Personal, Nuisance | Tags: marketing non-violence anti-war »

I’ve often wondered about this … maybe it’s the last few years in New York and in America in general that has given me a better perspective on this topic …
The Israeli’s don’t like Palestine .. so they do better verbal/print marketing through articles/news/speeches in the americas. But when it comes time to bomb houses […]



A great alternative to Adobe Acrobat

« 22 May 2007 at 1:10 am | 2 Comments
Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: Adobe Microsoft alternate MDI »

So, I’ve shown my irritation with Adobe Acrobat a few times over the years. A bigger issue … creating the PDF’s costs money (you have to buy the full version of Acrobat). So it’s great as an end-user technology (similar to Flash, etc) but sucks for developers who just want to play with it.
So it […]



Google timelines: great research tool

« 17 May 2007 at 9:07 pm | 1 Comment
Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: review google timeline research »

Finally, a tool from google that lets you search and view results by date!
Google Timeline
It’s obviously more interesting for historical research going back to decades and centuries, but you could play with it to get views on companies that have been around for a few years too.
As a people research tool, it still has a […]




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