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Entries from February 2007

Welcome to the 1970’s

February 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

…Google style. Google has done it again, first they took the search engine market by storm then they raised the ante in the email space with Gmail. Prior to them you had a couple of choices that were so damn stingy with storage space it was pathetic, Yahoo had a 5 or 10mb limit [...]

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Tags: Technology

Name the 2nd largest airliner?

February 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Yeah, I was shocked to find out that the 2nd largest airliner in the world doesn’t even fly passengers. Explains how they really can absolutely, positively deliver a package anywhere in the world. FedEx was started by Fred Smith who wrote a half baked business plan at Yale about a business that might compete [...]

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Tags: Business

Indian property report

February 21st, 2007 · No Comments

CLSA has come out with it’s latest report on India and this one is focused on the boom in real estate. The research reports issued by CLSA have been my favorite as they seem to add more depth then the typical “everything is great” reports issued by other research firms. The first half of [...]

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Tags: Business · India

5 must have apps for the Mac

February 14th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s been awhile since I’ve last talked about some of the applications I use on my Mac (last time was in Dec 05). A lot of the big names such as Toast and Mac Office get all the attention, but the Mac community has some damn good programmers who produce some amazing programs albeit without [...]

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Tags: Technology

Behind the scenes at celestri.org

February 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Several people have dropped me a line to find out how I created this website/blog. I figure I would start from the very beginning which is the domain name.

Domain name - I use GoDaddy for getting domains. There are many companies out there, but I have been using them for the past 3 years [...]

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BlackBerry Pearl

February 5th, 2007 · No Comments

I got the new BlackBerry Pearl 8100 about a month back and so far the phone is great. Granted when Apple came out with their iPhone announcement a couple weeks after getting the Pearl, I had buyers remorse but that lasted for a day.
The phone is very slim and feels good to the [...]

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Tags: Technology