December 2007
8 posts
Low IQ spam.
Spotted in my gmail account…
Dear Friend Please make a hotel reservation for me and tell me the nearest airport to you and await for my arrival.This is a transaction of $11m (eleven million USD) from a genuine source and duly certified. It is my inheritance with full legal right. I trust that with you I will be able to invest on the right business to maximize profit and grow my money. I...
The World is Flat.
Me: ...the book is simply brilliant. Tough to read at one go, but the stats and the examples make you think a lot... the way businesses work globally, people & their jobs, outsourcing and not to forget, China... They are so going to take over the world!
Abhilash: yea.. There's a theory that's floating around these days - At the end of this century, there'll be only the Chinese and the half-Chinese in this world... coz no matter where you are, the Chinese will find a way to hump you!
Who needs Innohub?! →
So someone did start the fire!
Here’s something that’s close to what we thought of doing at CEL. I really want to see how this evolves over time. But what’s encouraging at the moment is that there are lots of people giving ideas to improve upon existing products/problems. People are finally thinking loud… It’s time we get inspired.. to think!
Sample this….
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Who needs Hayagriva?! →
It’s been 3 long years since the launch of EDUSAT. A brilliant idea. A nationwide implementation can do wonders to our education system. Why the inertia?!
More info: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6423
Inspiration.
“… In 1974, I found it difficult to teach elegant theories of economics in the university classroom, in the backdrop of a terrible famine in Bangladesh. Suddenly, I felt the emptiness of those theories in the face of crushing hunger and poverty. I wanted to do something immediate to help people around me, even if it was just one human being, to get through another day with a little...
“Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being...”
– Salvador Dali (but ofcourse!)
… and recycled time & again by a certain Mr. Abhilash Ravishankar who’s coming back home!