Woh Jo Hum Mein Tum Mein

Yesterday night I had a great time listening to a beautiful ghazal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal] by Farida Khanam – Aaj Janay Ki Zidd Na Karo [http://www.channeldosti.com/ghazlein/Farida%20Khanam/Aaj%20Janay%20Ki%20Zidd%20Na%20Karo.rm] . I guess I must have heard it before but…

Wrist-band style phone

Nokia invited designers to design the next new cool phone (Nokia 888). The winner was Turkish designer, Tamer Nakisci [http://www.tamernakisci.com/]‘s wrist-band style phone [http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/03/nokia-888-communicator-concept-phone/].…

7 Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

7 Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn [http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html] – Economically, a startup is best seen not as a way to get rich, but as a way to work faster. More interesting essays by Paul Graham [http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html].…

Software Architecture is Leadership

Software Architecture is Leadership [http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=154933] – A software architecture should not only explain how things are done in a software project, it should guide the team in that direction.…

no noos is good gnoos

[http://gnoos.com.au/]I received an e-mail from Ben Barren [http://benbarren.blogspot.com/] in the morning with an inivitation to try out the private beta of an aussie blog search startup – ‘gnoos [http://gnoos.com.au/]‘ (beta site [http://beta.gnoos.com.au/] / blog [http://blog.gnoos.com.…

Will 2007 be the new Y2K?

My fiancee shared a crunchy tech bit … > Starting in March 2007, daylight-saving time will begin on the second Sunday of March and end on the first Sunday of November–lasting four weeks longer than the current regimen. If your computer systems don’t make that transition quickly, reports may…

Colors of the Baltic Affection

A quite dinner one late evening in Stockholm. Like always, they had a deep desire for some personal gratification, but this one night things were more provoked. Everything seems to be going according to the “plan”. He’s been a bit weak at nerves, but as anxious. Just two weeks…