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Archive for February, 2006

India Rising

Newsweek has a great article on India Rising. It’s a lengthy read but certainly worthwhile. I must say I’ve been fascinated by India for a while now and have been meaning to take a trip there, but for some reason or other have not made it yet. I can’t wait to experience it first-hand.

MIT Lectures

How cool is this… a huge collection of free videos of MIT lectures.

Pizza Week

OK, it’s definitely time for this week to end. This week in a nutshell: Way too much work – 12-14 hours every day. A direct result of all the work: way too much pizza (no time to cook). I think I’ve had pizza 4 out of 5 nights this week. Yuck. Oh, and of course [...]

Mental Floss

Ahhh… the joys of a three-day weekend. I finished a book I had started a short while ago, and then gobbled down another one between yesterday and today. It’s been a while since I last read an entire book in a day (432 pages, to be precise). But Stephen Frey’s “The Chairman” turned out to [...]

Things You Don’t Want Google To Find

Well, it’s no secret that Google is a pretty powerful search engine, but it may just be a little too powerful sometimes…

eVenturing

For those of my friends out there that are living their dream of starting a business – never give up! Oh, and once you get rich – hire me! Or better yet, make me a partner… Here’s a nice resource, the Kauffman eVenturing site. In their own words, The site provides original articles, written by [...]

Ten Things…

…you should know about procrastination. Luckily I don’t think I belong to the 20% that see themselves as chronic procrastinators.

Create Your Own Books

If you feel like publishing a book this weekend – check out Blurb. In their own words, Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. Creating your book is free, you only pay when you publish it.

Zillow

Want to know how much your home is worth? Check out Zillow. Not sure how accurate this is, but interesting nonetheless…

16 Seconds

Ahh… the simple things in life. This wonderful little game is just too fascinating…

Prosper

I came across this site called Prosper today. It’s a very interesting concept – they call themselves an “online marketplace for people-to-people lending”. It connects individual borrowers with interested lenders and lets them determine their own interest rate.

Super Bowl Advertisements

Gotta love the Super Bowl ads. Airtime during the Super Bowl is the most expensive airtime of the entire year, costing some $2.5 million per 30 seconds. With that kind of price tag and some 140 million people watching, you can expect companies to get pretty creative. Some spots during this year’s Super Bowl XL [...]

Sin City

( Travel )

Heading to Las Vegas for a day… I love Vegas. The city just is so quirky.

BlogRunner

( Technology andWeb )

I came across an interesting site today called BlogRunner. It tracks blog postings that cite articles published by the New York Times. Cool stuff.

Ahh, The Beach

Just spent three days in Santa Monica for meetings. I stayed at the Shutters Hotel On The Beach – what a fabulous little hotel that is. Now I gotta catch up with work and news, didn’t even have time yet to read people’s responses to the State of the Union Address… There’s lots and lots [...]