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Recently I completed listening to Tom Friedman's " World is Flat " on an audiobook had to agree with a lot of his statements, especially given how my life has been spawned over several countries and continents in the last decade. But when it comes to
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Late June, I had managed to get myself 2 tickets within a week which were to be contested at the Bellevue Court and one at the State court. The fines for the infractions were initially to about $300 (total) though the potential damage it could do to my
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Scott Adams in his blog today makes a passing point abt "competitive strategies", and I quote: "And what’s up with the people who pray for material things? If you believe that God answers prayers for merchandise, it means the gap between the Almighty
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Two words Heather - Marketing Power. That's my answer to Heather's " Does not Get it " question when she focuses her attention on IKEA and its maniacal shoppers . Allow me to respond with an even better example of MarketingPower that drove customer buying
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The New York Times the other day talked about the problem with business meetings about too much time being spent in meetings per week . The Average as you can see from the graphic on the left is 4.34 hrs spent per week and about 2.28 hrs for Males and
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Yesterday, Levitt wrote this wonderful little piece about the Ukranian win over the Swiss in Penalty kicks where the Swiss apparently "took his advice" and shoot in the middle of the goal and Lost. The advice I refer to is his paper on the predictions
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On my migration from Office 2003 to Office 12 - Outlook went from slow to Stop. After long calls with the IT Helpdesk the problem was resolved. My PST files were 1.8GB big, the recommended size is about 1 GB. It took a good part of 4 hrs to chunk that
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Quite interesting that when India makes it to the covers that the foto to be chosen (Left) is a Bharathanatiyam dancer from South India. Especially when you realize that 5 out of 7 ppl polled typically would have said that the TajMahal as the first thing
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Remember the mainframe concept of consolidation? Where all the CPU power, rules , data are all in one central server - and if that crashes all hell breaks loose? Well the way I maintain my wallet is not too dissimilar to that. All credit cards, cash,
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SIX Weeks away from blogging and there have been several hallway conversations/ lunch-talks/ emails and several IMs about my "life after blogging"... The forced mini-sabbatical was indeed to make sure the various moving parts happening here with re-orgs,
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3 days to SuperBowl XL and the team I support is playing the team of the city I live in. This cartoon that I saw today pretty much supports the story that we keep hearing about the Steeler Football - trying to play the Seahawks! Just decked a new Steelers
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This video has been circulating the Distribution lists and emails for a while and it is absolutely hilarious. Set to the music of Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl it has been "indianized" with the context of an Indian arranged marriage and for "the want
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With the Terrible Towel adorning my office walls at Microsoft not to mention the mini-Steelers helmet on my shelf at work - its no secret where my NFL fan-loyalty lies - but seriously its interesting to note that the last 3 cities I have lived in have
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You might think this is a joke - its not! A Team member on my group - Matthew Lehman discovered this epoch tool called BullFighter and forwarded it to our team minutes ago with the disclaimer " For people like me that can’t seem to form a sentence without
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No seriously that is the option. Or maybe Brad Pitt too. BBC News had a survey among 11,000 adolescents recently about science and scientists and came up with the response that over 70% of them said scientists are not seen as "normal and young attractive
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