What will you do with a million dollars? Take a world trip? Buy you dream car, or a condo by the beach? Maybe donate for a good cause, or change the world? A million dollars can have a billion reasons. Well, many years ago, during the dotcom wave, I was…
If you are trying to decide between two things, a good trick is to flip a coin. Assign one choice to heads and the other to tails. You’ll find yourself subtly “hoping” for one choice over the other. Decision made. Keep things simple!…
The politics of the state, and the state of politics – both mirror each other in today’s world. Politically-driven wars have been fought for oil (the black gold, as they call it). However, many skeptics believe that the next wave of socially-driven wars will be fought over Earth’s most…
> If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. [cartoon by Hugh Macleod [http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003998.html]]…
Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They aren’t caused by events, bad luck, or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. Here are 10 habits [http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-virtually-instant-ways-to-improve-your-life.html] you should set aside right away to free…
The furor behind SiCKO [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/], Michael Moore’s documentary on the US health-care system, has resulted in a debate between Moore and CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/15/moore.gupta/index.html]. Moore’s documentary compares the highly profitable American health…
Let’s take a quick tour. The first-generation web, Web 1.0 (prior to 1998), with its text-only web pages, centered around the “web browser” (application host). Web 2.0 (2002-2007) is centered around interaction (application dynamics and logic). The Web 2.0 trend is bloated with API’s, mashups,…
Sometime back, Cait [http://scientaestubique.wordpress.com/] e-mailed me to participate in a survey centred around Australian Internet-startup’s. The survey results [http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pq8tRfjYA9FcbFRttlWsyIw&pli=1] can be viewed online, although I think its still missing responses from a few other participants. There are…