Book Review: Zero Gravity 3*
Zero Gravity: Riding Venture Capital from High-Tech Start-up to Breakout IPO I read this book years ago when it first came out (in 2000). I sometimes like to read these…
Design Patterns for the Real World
Every engineer, over the years of their career, develops an appreciation for particular design patterns. In general, there are multiple tools that one can pull from for any particular problem,…
Project 12: Month 3 Meal: Bob’s Nasi Goreng
Month 3 - here we go! (I'll get the previous month's up ) The basic premise behind Project 12 is, as part of my #biggestwinner efforts, to create one dish…
MWC 2011 Observations
Following are some of my high level observations from Mobile World Congress 2011 Overall, the conference was incredibly large. I have not been for 2 years, but this year it…
The Mobile world is still changing
I sometimes like to gloat when I find out that I’m right, but I’ve learned after almost 15 years in the mobile business, that it’s not wise to do so…
Bumper Car Highways
I just finished reading an article in Wired with Will Ferrell, taking stock of all the fantastical and imagined Jetson-like lifestyles we expected to be living by now. Will Farrell added in his…
Help Me with my Resolutions!
This weekend was Navroz (Persian New Year) , which is when I normally start my resolutions for the year. This year I tried starting them like normal people on Jan 1st,…
Series of un-funk-tunate events
WAY back in Dec 2007, my site crashed and I had to take it down. I'm only getting around to actually putting up now (as part of my health theme…
Blog posts flood
Don't worry - it ain't an error somewhere - i just haven't been able to get proper access to my blog for the past couple weeks and that's why they all went…
Triple Threat
I get way too much spam on my blog and I'm getting tired of having to moderate the messages. It takes away from the instant gratification for users, and it…