I still havent caught up on my readings – but heres a nice one. Last week’s Economist had a series of essays on International Banking. If you like/work in/are interested in banking and finance, dont miss it. What it lacks in depth, it makes up in breadth. From the evolution of the complex American banking…
Category: Catch-all
When it falls between the gaps.
Collages in Picasa2.0
Finally installed Picasa 2.0 and played around with it. Presenting Collage #1: The Zodiac Photographic credits go to Srijith – i am merely the Picasa editor. The source of the pics are the walls of the Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna – each sign of the zodiac was done by a different artist. Its amazing how they…
Feeling trapped…by Google
Everyone seems to luuurrve Google – maybe rightfully so. While I still use google as my primary search engine, I don’t particularly like the fact that they also know who I keep in touch with (gmail), what news I read (google news), who my friends are (orkut), what I research on (google scholar), what I…
Tada!
Finally on online to-do list that I like : Tadalist I have tried to have a centralised online tracking system for my chores – never really liked any – but I think I like Tada. Its:– simple (hate those complicated ones which try to do too many things at the same time) – allows me…
A reason to smile
Overheard: “Smile. People will wonder what you are smiling at.” Now thats a good reason to smile.
Confusion O confusion
There are certain things that most people take for granted that I have to think for a moment. Like for example, the floor that I need to go to – do I count the ground floor as 1 or 0? I rem when I was a kid, we used to count ground as 0, and…
Price tag on a baby’s smile: 16,000 £
CNN News today featured a ‘Smile Researcher’. Guess what the value of a child’s smile is: 16,000£! Good for the babies in America – thanks to the slide in US$, the dollar value of their smiles are going up!
And they live happily ever after on Earth!
Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.. Overheard: Wife : Do you think I am beautiful?Husband (his nose still in the newspaper): uhmm..what..yes, sure. W : Did you hear what I just said?H : ya, I did, do I want more coffee. W: No! I asked if I am beautiful!H (now in making…