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Entries from September 2005

I’ve been outsourced to India

September 29th, 2005 · No Comments

Yes folks soon I’ll be traveling to Bombay, India for a 6 month gig. I’m excited about the opportunity to work in an emerging market and one that is my home country. I know a ton of people trying to get to India for one simple reason - it’s THE place to be for [...]

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Tags: Business · General

Flashback Friday: First Mixed Tape

September 16th, 2005 · No Comments

I was cleaning up my place and came across some old mixed tapes I’d made in the past and saw the cassette liner from the very first one i ever made. It was right after i came back from India during the summer of 1986, below are the songs on that tape:
Side A:
West End Girls [...]

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Tags: General

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

September 16th, 2005 · No Comments

On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs of Apple delivered the commencement speech to the Stanford gradutes. Several people had e-mailed me the link before, but i got busy and never read the text because it was so long. However, I finally got around to it and damn…it’s very, very inspirational. I would recommend reading [...]

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Tags: General

I friggin’ love Los Angeles

September 14th, 2005 · No Comments

One of many reasons I love Los Angeles is the shear volume of bad ass cars that run around the asphalt of SoCal. Take today for example, I was driving west on Sunset Blvd and at the same intersection the following cars were there:
- Ferrari 575M Maranello (515hp)
- Ferrari 360 Modena (400hp)
- Audi S4 [...]

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Tags: Cars

Is this a flashback to the dot.com era?

September 12th, 2005 · No Comments

Today felt like a flashback to the dot.com era of yesteryear…Skype announced it was being bought for USD $2.6b ($1.3b in cash and $1.3b in stock) and an additional USD $1.5b in performance bonuses by eBay. Downloadable preso [PDF, 78 pages, 3.5mb]
Skype has three main assets - users, brand name and networking gear. [...]

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Tags: Business · Technology

Curry-N-Rice Girl Video

September 12th, 2005 · No Comments

FoBBeD OuT EnTeRtAiNmEnT (featuring Mc Vikram and Ludakrishna) have released there parody of Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl”. Best part of the clip is when they spell out b-i-o-d-a-t-a. These are the same guys that did the parody of “Welcome to Atlanta” called “Welcome to India”.
Curry and Rice Video
Welcome to India mp3

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Tags: General

DHS = Dept. of Hurricane Screw-ups

September 2nd, 2005 · No Comments

I’ve always said even the poorest person in America is better off then a poor person in India. Well, i take that back after seeing the images from New Orleans, it’s clear some of these 3rd world countries have it much better then the folks stuck in New Orleans. The looting and lawlessness is [...]

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Tags: General

A day late, a dollar short

September 2nd, 2005 · No Comments

After being glued to the TV for the past several days, it seems clear the relief effort is slow in coming to New Orleans and other affected areas. It doesn’t help that the president was still in Crawford, Texas on vacation, or maybe he was just heeding the mandatory evacutions imposed on New Orleans [...]

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Tags: General