Archive For June, 2008
You’ve been hearing the buzz. There is talk that we are finally moving to the new One97 building. The excitement is palpable. You can almost feel the gush of adrenalin. It’s not just a rumor anymore. It’s as real as bricks and mortar. The sweet smell of high-octane benzene emanating from the freshly-painted walls. Oh, [...]
It was exactly five months back that Nokia bought Trolltech. See link Nokia has done it again. It has gone ahead and taken over Symbian as reported here by Slashdot. The acquisition is valued at about 410 million of yankee money. So why did Nokia do it? On the surface, it doesn’t seem obvious at [...]
So for those of you that I have had the pleasure of sharing and exchanging ideas with, you would know that I spent most of my professional life in a land far, far away. However, I have had a hard time explaining to my colleagues in India that there really is no such thing as [...]
Jargon. We use it. We flaunt it. We coin it. We are daunted by it. We are bombarbed by jargon every waking minute of our lives. So being on the cutting edge does have its downsides. Or so it would seem. Until you realize that jargon can be used as a weapon also. To intimidate [...]
Disclaimer – This blog post started out as an essay on corporate philosophy and why corporations need philosophies but somewhere along the way, it turned into an existentialist’s view of personal philosophy. We hear it all the time. It’s all been done. All the good ideas are taken. The dice is loaded. The playing field [...]
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