“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.” – RFK
Posted in life on Mar 12th, 2007
As some of you might have noticed, I have been a fairly delinquent blogger as of late. A fair bit has happened since my last post and I’ll just make a quick update now. I have often been accused of having a lack of focus, and I’d be hard pressed to argue that myself. So [...]
I spent a few hours today reading Next by Michael Crichton. Though Next was not particularly well written, it is remarkably thought-provoking. Under the guise of a novel, Crichton attempts to show the potentially disasterous consequences of current US policies on the future of biomedical research. The Author’s notes highlight broadly the five issues that [...]
Since I don’t have a secretary, I use a whole host of computer applications to help me increase my productivity. I’ve decided to list them all here for others to peruse. If you have a favorite efficiency application that I don’t actually use, tell me about it! File Management Amarok (Linux) – A full featured [...]
The Wall Street Journal carried an article on Thursday about the disproportionate number of immigrants who are participating in entrepreneurship: Immigrant Innovators Start-up engineering and technology companies that had at least one immigrant founder produced $52 billion sales in 2005 and employed about 450,000 workers, according to a study by researchers at the University of [...]
Referenced from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. I personally spend significant amount of time on my Ipod and my E3C headphones. Naturally, it’s been quite disconcerting to see increasing anecdotal evidence of earbuds induced hearing loss. Fortunately, it seems that an industrious graduate student has come up with some concrete numbers we can use: “Sound Output Levels [...]
