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Sam Walton:Made in America – What a great Book!
My title summarizes the experience of reading this book. I picked this book a few weeks back, I started reading it immediately during my travels and I finished it yesterday night. What a book, the...
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Intel Museum in Santa Clara, CA
I am in Bay Area, USA for 2 weeks which will take me to Silicon Valley, Redmond (WA) and Los Angeles (for Microsoft PDC ’08). Sunday evening I went along with my cousin who lives here to Fremont...
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Cray CX1 Supercomputer
Today I got a chance to visit Cray Inc. (The supercomputer company) headquarters in downtown Seattle. I got to see in their lab the recently arrived Cray CX1 Supercomputer. This is the first product to...
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Cupertino, CA
The last view days I am staying in Cupertino, CA – One of the cities in Silicon Valley which includes San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Fremont, Milpitas, Sunnyvale and others where you find the...
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Goodfellas (1990)
After seeing The wolf of Wall Street (2013) by Martin Scorsese I have been wanting to see his earlier gangster movies, today I watched Goodfellas (1990). Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta & Joe...
View ArticleDigital Hollywood – Day 3
Today is the last day of DH and I have my panel discussion in another hour or so. I am sitting currently in The Next Generation in Mobile & Broadband Platform Personalization: Widgets, Search,...
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Microsoft Ignite 2016
Microsoft’s largest technical conference started today with 23,000 attendees. This is Microsoft’s annual technology conference called Ignite, a combination of many of individual events of the past...
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iPad lost and found
Thanks to this good guy Cordell Naylor I traced my lost iPad and got it back. You rock man! This week I am here in Atlanta attending Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference and yesterday evening I had...
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Microsoft Ignite 2016 updates
[My post on Day 1 of Microsoft Ignite 2016 here] Random updates during the week at Microsoft Ignite. Lot of continuous meaningful improvements to SharePoint in Office 365 & OneDrive for Business...
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In Atlanta Georgia
This week at Microsoft Ignite technical conference it was not all work making Jack a dull boy. There were facilities within the venue, even musicians playing to take a break in between the hectic...
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The Everything Store by Brad Stone
I have been a customer of Amazon for decades. My loyalty to them started in the late 1990s. I used to buy books on software from Amazon USA and having it shipped to India as the latest editions were...
View ArticleThe Big Short (2015)
Monetary & Banking systems worldwide are primarily based on “trust”. As ordinary people and even businesses implicitly trust the banks and expect our governments to be monitoring them for upholding...
View ArticleThe 100 years show
“Carmen Herrera is very possibly the oldest contemporary artist working today. What is extraordinary about Herrera is that ‘commercial success’ did not come until the early 2000s — after seven decades...
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Happy for the cause of Harvard Tamil Chair
ஹார்வர்டு பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் தமிழ் மொழிக்கு இருக்கை அமைக்க உலகத்தமிழர்கள் பலரின் முயற்சியால் நன்கொடைகள் வந்து கொண்டேயிருக்கிறது. என்னைப் பொருத்தவரை கல்விக்கழகங்களில் ஆராய்ச்சிகளை நாம் எப்போதும் வரவேற்க...
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A Separate Wind (2014)
A Separate Wind (Viento aparte) is a familiar plot, of what should’ve been a simple trip gone wrong. Just like movies of this genre, this one too takes us through several places and its people, the...
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Wind River (2017)
Wind River (2017) is a crime thriller that transports you to the wintry mountains of Wyoming and keeps you frozen there in anticipation. I thought Alaska and the regions near arctic circle are the only...
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How common people handle hyperinflation?
Living in “India”, which compared to many other parts of the world, has provided economic stability and growth over the last two decades, it is extremely difficult for me to visualize what a...
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Madraza (2017)
Madraza (aka Godmother) is a crime film from Argentina that I liked watching. It is a story about a woman who loses her husband to a street mugger, deciding to pull herself up, she ends up as a hired...
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Kim’s Convenience (TV series)
For the last two weeks, I have binge watching two seasons of Kim’s Convenience (TV Series). It is a Canadian Television sitcom that was based on a successful stage play by the same name, written by Ins...
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Bagdad Cafe (1987)
In Bagdad Cafe (1987) Director Percy Adlon shows that you can give an engaging film with just 2 main characters, and only one setting – of a run-down motel off the highway. It is a familiar and...
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