Ever since we read John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant book The Confederacy of Dunces, we’ve wanted to visit New Orleans. We finally got to visit New Orleans earlier this year, about two and half years after Hurricane Katrina basically destroyed the city. As we pulled into the Ninth Ward driven by morbid curiosity to see one […]
Did you know that Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the author of the Indian National Anthem Jana gana mana… was a painter too. And a pretty unimpressive one at that. On Sunday, we had the chance to view some of Tagore’s paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tagore’s paintings are part of two […]
Unless you are a complete idiot or a troglodyte, you know who Craig Newmark is. Assuming for a moment that you are one of those out to prove that the dodo is not extinct, let’s introduce Craig Newmark to you. Craig Newmark is the Craig of Craigslist and the man single-handedly responsible for destroying the […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made it clear where he stands on the contentious issue of outsourcing that has snatched several thousand well paying jobs from Americans and handed them over to the cheaper Indian and Chinese coolies. In his acceptance speech, this is what Obama had to say: Unlike John McCain, I will […]
The monkeys at Sun Microsystems have done it again. According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, Sun’s server revenues fell 7.2% in the second quarter of 2008. This makes it the third consecutive quarter that server revenues have declined at this struggling IT vendor. Even as the worldwide server market grew 6.4% to $13.9 […]
Desperate to burnish its credentials as a credible player in the search and e-commerce arena, Microsoft is buying Greefield Online, owner of Cia GmbH, an European price comparison, shopping and consumer reviews sites for $486 million. Ciao’s technology platform, online community and extensive merchant relationships are to be integrated within Microsoft’s total-disaster of a Live […]