Every consultant would have faced a client like this atleast once in their career. 12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them [http://freelanceswitch.com/clients/12-breeds-of-client-and-how-to-work-with-them/] is an interesting read!…
We all must have witnessed a sporting event in person or on TV where the national anthem of a country is played as an instrumental piece. It delighted me to see an African athlete once singing the anthem to the instrumental tune. Everyone was standing to pay tribute to the…
Conan O’Brien [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_O'Brien] is one of the funniest guys around, who also hosts the Late Show on NBC. Not long ago, his show featured a parody on Indian Call Center’s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8d_OpneZAQ]. Not many…
News breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon [http://www.stumbleupon.com/] for $40ish million, and on the same day Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality (i.e. serendipitous website discovery) into their Toolbar. Given the timing, Om Malik says this is Google lashing out at StumbleUpon and…
The cue card [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_astrology#Saturn] read, “experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” Well, in the depiction of human tragedy, the lure of power, the pitfalls of ambition, the roots of passion and the springs of…
John Resig highlights the JavaScript Updates in Firefox 3.0a3 [http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-updates-in-firefox-30a3/]. I often wonder how promising Firefox has made the “web browser”, which has gradually evolved into a self-contained application host like an operating system. IE might dominate the user-base for now, but Firefox dominates the…
“Geeks have conditioned themselves to think logically, just as the religious have been conditioned to replace logic with trust in what they are told. What can be extracted from this is that geeks are not atheists simply because they may know “more” but also because they choose to think differently…
A web page readability study reveals that the combination which gives the fastest response time is italicized green Times New Roman on yellow background (well not actually bright yellow). More … [http://www.metalinkltd.com/?p=91]…