Windows XP [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/default.mspx] is the most popular, and in many ways more reliable, than any other computer operating system offered by Microsoft. Windows XP is also one of the largest consumer software applications. But, let’s face it, Microsoft has had a…
Around the world, except for the Middle-East, there’s a bubble building up around oil prices (and real-estate costs). Oil prices are rising [http://specials.rediff.com/money/2008/may/26oil1.htm], like never before. And the world is worried. Futures speculation has created frenzy, unless you are driving a…
The past few weeks have been utterly busy, but the road get’s a bit easier when you are passionate about what you are doing. If you don’t enjoy what you are doing (your profession for that matter), you’ll never stimulate your passion to its limit-less state, and…
> Downtown waiting at your window strain to drop by while you ask why You’re reaching for stars now try to hold on ahead Can’t can’t we can’t we be can’t we be dreaming? That’s Menwhopause [http://www.myspace.com/menwhopause]‘ unreleased track titled…
HackerTV [http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/] is broadcasting Startup School [http://startupschool.org/] 2008, an all-day event that covers pretty much everything one would ever want to know about technology startups. A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium for a chance to pick…
Wealth intrigues me [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=wealth]. And, it amuses me, because at times I wonder if there’s anything close to “adequate wealth”, or maybe, “good enough to last long” wealth. We are chasing wealth, but it comes with no guarantee of happiness. So I’…
If, economist and author, Ben Stein [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/bio/yourlife/ben-stein] can be taken seriously, he has some sound advice to share about getting rich [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/24513]. Some excerpts: > The top 1 percent (of all wealth-holders in the U.S.…
In the cloud computing space, there’s the SaaS model, its cousin DaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/04/06/daas-the-cousin/], and their distant mate – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). All the “XaaS” platforms exist and operate under the same umbrella, so to speak. The “Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service…