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• Look ma, No more Visas. H1B Visa cap reaches on day one.
Editor's Pick
Rising fuel, bad business plan, Airlines run on ego and you get the picture about the Aviation scene in India. Capt. Anup Murthy
on the state of Indian Aviation.
Featured Review
• Ranjan Varma reviews The Big Idea by Stephen Strauss.
Biz/Tech Features
• Yahoo's recent changes to its search engine advertising model. Good or bad?, asks Anand.
• "When Wii came home, I accepted defeat." Blokesablogin's tryst with Nintendo Wii.
• India's accelerated growth is neither multi-dimentional nor is it well thought out. DesiGirl feels there is much background work to be done.
- Aug 28, 2010
- Photo Essay: The City of a Thousand Minarets
Some minarets in Cairo, the city of a thousand minarets
- Aug 26, 2010
- How To Sleep During Office HoursMental toughness is the key to success here. For better results you can keep a couple of these farting giants as your source of inspiration.
- How To Sleep During Office Hours
- Aug 19, 2010
- Book Review: HTML 5 - Up And RunningThis book does a good job of giving the reader a head start on the new way of doing things on the Web.
- Book Review: HTML 5 - Up And Running
- Aug 8, 2010
- Book Review: The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd Edition
The book comprehensively covers topics from the basic libraries of HLA to advanced arithmetic, macros and string instructions.
- Aug 5, 2010
- Photo Essay: Harrow on the Hill War MemorialOne very good and interesting thing about England is that almost every town and village has its war memorial.
- Photo Essay: Harrow on the Hill War Memorial
- Aug 3, 2010
- Photo Essay: The Midland Bank VaultWhat the inside of a bank vault looks like
- Photo Essay: The Midland Bank Vault
- Aug 1, 2010
- Working From Home
some thoughts about homeworking and how women/men do homeworking differently
- Jul 31, 2010
- The Children's Hedge Fund ExperimentThe ongoing saga of my son's financial education, the next step involves him being a hedge fund manager
- Bootstrap Your CompanyDon’t waste your money
- The Children's Hedge Fund Experiment
- Jul 29, 2010
- Book Review - Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo
The book was such an interesting read that I ended up finishing it within two days.
- Jul 25, 2010
- A Debate Over Climate ChangeSome future trajectories for the human race in terms of climate change
- A Debate Over Climate Change
- Jul 21, 2010
- Book Review: Friends with BenefitsA Social Media Marketing Handbook
- Book Review: Friends with Benefits
- Jul 18, 2010
- Book Review: Rework
As the book says, “Change the way you work forever.”
- Jun 30, 2010
- Diesel Pricing Decontrol - Will Diesel Car Demand Decrease?The Government says it is committed to decontrol price of diesel
- Diesel Pricing Decontrol - Will Diesel Car Demand Decrease?
- Jun 8, 2010
- Bank Risks - Show Me The Money And Who Owns ItBank risk taking varies positively with the comparative power of shareholders within the corporate governance structure of each bank.
- Bank Risks - Show Me The Money And Who Owns It
- May 20, 2010
- Photo Essay: Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
A story on the worshipful company of Makers of Playing Cards - Changing Ingredients of an OptimistA half won battle is a lost battle, like a half filled glass
- May 9, 2010
- Mobile Phones in India: Disappointing FareThere is no ONE answer.
- Mobile Phones in India: Disappointing Fare
- May 1, 2010
- Software Review: Ubuntu 10.04 - Late Night Thoughts
I made a conscious decision to stick to Linux, explore it and I am elated to have Ubuntu "work out of box".
- Apr 18, 2010
- Alternate Routes to the USA – Considering the Volcanic Ash Alternate routes to the USA must be explored
- Alternate Routes to the USA – Considering the Volcanic Ash
- Apr 10, 2010
- Book Review: MySQL Admin Cookbook99 great recipes for mastering MySQL configuration and administration
- Book Review: MySQL Admin Cookbook
- Apr 9, 2010
- Safety Concerns on Flaming Tata Nanos
The window of opportunity for damage control is slender, especially with high profile brands.
- Apr 3, 2010
- Microsoft, Apple, Google - The Battle for DominationThe iPad will be no different, and Apple will continue to weave its net of circumvention yet again.
- Microsoft, Apple, Google - The Battle for Domination
- Mar 20, 2010
- CFO or CEO: Who Influences Earnings Management More?Who has the most influence on earnings management of a firm? Some surprising results
- Indian Union Cabinet Passes the Foreign Education Bill
Plenty of opposition before the bill proceeds
- CFO or CEO: Who Influences Earnings Management More?
- Mar 6, 2010
- An Unpleasant Experience at the Local Big BazaarCombine a lady prone to quarreling with some weird policies, and you get a disaster.
- IT Outsourcing Can Actually Increase a Firm’s IT SpendIT Outsourcing is not a panacea for reducing costs, it can do other things, but not reduce costs
- An Unpleasant Experience at the Local Big Bazaar
- Mar 4, 2010
- Beautiful Mathematics in Control Theory
What is common between stimulus packages, launch vehicles, robots and inverted pendulums?
- Mar 3, 2010
- Technology LapsesTechnology fails to prove its absoluteness.
- Technology Lapses
- Mar 2, 2010
- Accountants are High Priests, Drawing Order out of ChaosAccountants are not merely bean counters, they are our interlocutors with the Gods
- Accountants are High Priests, Drawing Order out of Chaos
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