Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul... |
An MBA grad student @ Thunderbird School of Global Management, a musician, a gadget-freak, a committed geek, a doodler, a babbler, a cook, a lover of the simple things in life, a proud T-bird... I am available on a lot of services. You can access them here - Renganathan Ramamoorthy When I find time, I am usually writing at
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"Look, I’ll pay per byte. Just give me all the bytes I pay for."
Hey, AT&T! We Want Rollover Bytes
Great idea by folks at Gizmodo. That would make absolute sense for me - and give me enough bytes for a rainy day.
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HTC's Droid Incredible, Sprint EVO 4G make Droid great
Great review by Andy.
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Truly one of the most inspiring videos I’ve seen in a really long time. And man, does the base singer have style.
*bow*
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Q and Answer: Laundering Dress Shirts
Nick asks: Quick question...
If you ever wondered about laundering your dress clothes, this answers it.
I love Put This On.
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The Myth of the Super Programming Language
Great read.
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World's Simplest Portfolio
Any takes by the financial gurus?
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An Interesting Take On Lost’s Season
Finale
Definitely an interesting take. Not at all what I felt, but good to see other people reasoning the whole finale.
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The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City « Viceland Games
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iPhone Development: The Illusion of Open
Unless Google resumes direct sales or puts licensing limitations on the carriers to prevent them from locking down Android phones, “open” will be just another empty marketing slogan. And I suspect that’s what it will be. Google doesn’t really care about the user experience, they just want to keep making money on their proprietary, non-open advertising in the mobile space the way they have on the web, and the more Android phones that are out there, the more phones that will be getting Google Ads. Hell, Google even discussed the possibility of unblockable ads at Google IO!
The above paragraph doesn’t see the whole picture. Another policy overriding any google practice is “Dont be evil.” and there are tons of googlers who work there for just that reason. The minute google doesn’t care about the user experience, android would die.
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Online, How Much Security Is Too Much? - Pogue's Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
Maybe companies need to hire a PT person as well (Productivity Technology), somebody who’s a counterweight to the IT person. Somebody whose job it is to argue: “Oh, come on. Is this really necessary?”
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It takes discipline to forego pleasure now to avoid a lifetime of pain and fees. Many people, especially when confronted with a blizzard of debt marketing, can’t resist.
Resist. Smart people work at keeping their monthly consumer debt burden to zero. Borrow only for things that go up in value. Easy to say, hard to do. Worth it.
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"If you’re betting the whole thing, building your service launch on design first, skimping on design is plain foolish.The Guggenheim in Bilbao would be empty if they’d merely hired a very good architect."
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"Judge for yourself by watching the keynote. (Score one for Google against Apple for broadcasting keynote addresses live — can you even imagine how popular live keynote streams would be for Apple? Score one for Apple for posting their keynotes as single video files; Google posts theirs in crummy YouTube-size 10-minute chunks.)"
Daring Fireball Linked List: Kara Swisher on the Anti-Apple Focus of Yesterday’s Google I/O Keynote
Just to be sure. That’s not entirely correct. You can watch the whole session here http://youtube.com/googledevelopers
Yes, Apple does make it easy by making it a single video download. On the other hand 720p streaming ain’t so bad either.
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This is so super funny :D
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The iOS 4.0.1 Update is Complete Pants
While in LA this week, I dropped at least 50% of my phone calls. While at home, I drop at least 25% of my...
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Redesigning stories
Over at msnbc.com, where I spend most of my waking hours, we1 just launched a massive redesign of our story pages. For a...
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I am in love with this dress! Its the right color, the right length and the right amount of “flowy” for me! I wish I could buy it for my weekend...
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Patent pending.
NEW iPhone 4 antenna booster! Just $29.99. Really works!*
* As tested compared to licking your hands and squeezing really hard in...
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8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not) Notice in iOS 4
Every time Apple releases a new OS update, be it on the Mac or iPhone, there’s a bucketload of...
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Over the last couple of weeks, Starbucks has been showing Seattle some love by giving out free tickets to...
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Obligatory Sad Keanu
