Mercury new's slide show on India

Worth a quick look.

Happy XMas, new year and all that...

How complicated can it be to wish your friends and family? Check out the most complex greeting ever posted by Vinny. Here is an excerpt to pique your interest...

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, nonaddictive, gender neutral celebration of the summer solstice holiday, practiced with the most enjoyable traditions of religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.

As for me, I simply wish you all Happy Holidays!

Computing on thumb drive

I had talked about this idea before in a post earlier... now some undergrad in India has done it with OpenSolaris. Fantastic!

A great piece - Failure and fallure

I remember reading the essay by Jim Collins where he draws leadership lessons from his experience with rock climbing when it was first published.

Re-reading it now, I find the timeless piece just as inspirational and perhaps resonating all the more strongly...

Joe meet's Bill G

A *really* old post from Joe Kraus that I found entertaining... worth checking out if you have some time to waste.