A great evening for a bbq

Since I used to work at Yahoo!, I still have a Yahoo! email address but I only check it once a week or so.  That being said, when I checked my email last night I had nine new emails and four of them were from Barack Obama.  Can you say spam?   I actually really like…

While I think that it is insane that AT&T had expectations from analysts that it would sell over 500,000 iPhones over the two days that it was available at the end of its last quarter, it is still interesting to note that the number of iPhones actually provisioned was much lower — 146,000. While it…

One of the things about blogging is that when you stop for a while, it is hard to get started again.  In addition, when you feel like you have long entries to write, you get writers block. As a result, for the last two weeks I have been trying to write a summary blog entry…

I hate to admit it but I got scammed on Craigslist Seattle when trying to buy concert tickets and the only benefit was that the person has three emails which hopefully will get indexed so if people search, they will know that there was a scam. I posted a Craigslist post asking for two tickets…

This is the first long (over a week) vacation that I have taken since I started working at Microsoft about 2 years ago, and I have to say that it is going to be amazing.   I cant wait to escape from work email and spend some time in nature…. although the lodge does have some…

I just read an article in Business Week which described a year long research project that Nokia just completed in three shantytowns of Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Accra (Ghana).  Their goal was to understand the technology needs of of people living in those areas. In each locale, Nokia set up booths and asked the…