Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul...

"Microsoft ought to build a new, modern, stripped-down OS and support the legacy stuff in a virtual..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:11:00 -0700

“Microsoft ought to build a new, modern, stripped-down OS and support the legacy stuff in a virtual machine. Call the new environment WIN instead of WINDOWS, suggesting a new stripped-down nimbleness. Make it clear that the old world will be supported for a long time but not forever. Dazzle people with what they can do in a new world.”

- Scott Rosenberg

The Future of Windows

Win instead of Windows - love it.

New series

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:27:00 -0700

New series:

As I edge closer to graduation on April 30, 2010, I realized that it’s time to take stock on what I have learned over my time in MBA and chronicle them as posts to share. So, I will begin a new…

Wow, the movie just blew me away. Simply wow.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:41:07 -0700

Wow, the movie just blew me away. Simply wow.

Highly recommended for viewing pleasure. Also make sure you...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:39:59 -0700

Highly recommended for viewing pleasure. Also make sure you watch the supreme camera effects of the prologue - Hotel Chevalier. Wes Anderson is amazing.

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board That’s just...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:38:18 -0700

Panic Blog » The Panic Status Board

That’s just wicked cool!!

Mosambe: A fresh squeeze at job boards

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:24:00 -0700

Since August 2009, I have been working with one of the best companies I know of - mosambe.com - one half of what Kaasu Info Ventures is working on. They are on their path to reinventing the job board. They have just released a major update to the web-site/application/awesomeness. Please do check it out.

Kavan and Akram and Dipankar - you guys rock.

My mosambe profile.

Optional Practical Training

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:19:34 -0700

Optional Practical Training

50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A « Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy’s Blog

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:19:34 -0700

50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A « Bhuvana Sundaramoorthy’s Blog

Tips for Talking Your Way Into a Job - Job search - Lifehacker

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:19:34 -0700

Tips for Talking Your Way Into a Job - Job search - Lifehacker

"Add all your points up. If you have more than 10 points, you can use a dev shop. If you don’t, you..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:20:35 -0700

“Add all your points up. If you have more than 10 points, you can use a dev shop. If you don’t, you should go hire a team of hackers and build it the right way.”

- When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) | startup adventures in nyc by Brad Hargreaves

Great article on entrepreneurs hiring dev shops. Being a dev and now moving to the business side of things, this is truly a great way to analyze if you need to hire a dev shop. :)

"It was made painfully clear at the hearings that a number of lawmakers do not understand the..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:12:17 -0700

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It was made painfully clear at the hearings that a number of lawmakers do not understand the process. An exchange between Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Toyota President Akio Toyoda illustrated the problem.

Toyoda said that when his company gets a complaint about a mechanical problem, engineers set to work trying to duplicate the problem in their labs to find out what went wrong.

Norton said: “Your answer — we’ll wait to see if this is duplicated — is very troublesome.” Norton asked Toyoda why his company waited until a problem recurred to try to diagnose it, which is exactly what he was not saying.

Members of Congress are generally lawyers and politicians, not engineers. But they are launching investigations and creating policies that have a direct impact on the designers and builders of incredibly complex vehicles — there are 20,000 parts in a modern car — so there are some basics they should understand. Chief among them: The only way to credibly figure out why something fails is to attempt to duplicate the failure under observable conditions. This is the engineering method.

“It’s just so difficult for people to understand the complexity of the thing,” said David E. Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan and an engineer. “They don’t have the background. They don’t have the time to do an investigation. They want to oversimplify a thing that can’t be oversimplified.”

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- Frank Ahrens: Why it’s so hard for Toyota to find out what’s wrong

Camper Covers by Alfredo Häberli - Products - Dwell

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:36:30 -0700

Camper Covers by Alfredo Häberli - Products - Dwell:

There’s something amazing about this plus would come handy in Seattle.

Homework: Polish poster design - Art - Wallpaper.com -...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:28:00 -0700

Homework: Polish poster design - Art - Wallpaper.com - International Design Interiors Fashion Travel

I never noticed the similarity of a pen’s nib and a lady’s body till now. Wow!

earlyadaptor: A map of countries that provide some form of...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:11:50 -0700

earlyadaptor:

A map of countries that provide some form of universal healthcare. Blue is single-payer; green is alternative means of universal healthcare; and gray is for countries that are just royally fucked.

Interesting infographic

"Cutting out the tongue does not deny the experience of hunger"

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:43:14 -0700

“Cutting out the tongue does not deny the experience of hunger”

- Unknown

"… the tyranny of averages always conceals sparkling exceptions to the rule."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:02:40 -0700

“… the tyranny of averages always conceals sparkling exceptions to the rule.”

- Richard Tanner Pascale and Jerry Sternin

Your Company’s Secret Change Agents

HBR May 2005

Twitter: The Criterion Collection on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Amazing...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:45:17 -0700

Twitter: The Criterion Collection on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Amazing video. Must watch

Microsoft is doing some wonderful stuff with Bing Maps. Kudos...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:07:21 -0700

Microsoft is doing some wonderful stuff with Bing Maps. Kudos guys!!

Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:50:47 -0700

Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

Awesome article by The Onion. :)

Lukas Mathis on focus

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:19:11 -0700

Lukas Mathis on focus:

I like Lukas’ main message - no applications or tools can help you concentrate better than your own mind. If it’s important, you’ll remember it or you’ll remember to pencil it in, else you’ve already decided that it’s not important for you. =)