THE DREAM IN ACTION

For as long as I can remember I’ve always found myself envying and analyzing people who are very successful. I’ve studied their personality traits, their career paths, and anything else that I feel might reveal a common denominator that I may be able to learn from. I’ve come to the conclusion that success is about [...]

18 minutes is all the time one is allowed to speak at TED. 18 minutes to give the best talk of their life. No pressure… TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader The [...]

Starting at 8:43p EST there will be a lunar eclipse. The moon will be totally covered from 10:01p and 10:51p. This will be your last opportunity to see a lunar eclipse until 2010. From Wikipedia: A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the moon passes through some portion of the Earth’s shadow. This can occur only when [...]

“A solid working knowledge of productivity software and other IT tools has become a basic foundation for success in virtually any career… Beyond that, however, I don’t think you can overemphasise the importance of having a good background in maths and science… Communication skills and the ability to work well with different types of people [...]

People misuse phrases in the English language all the time.  For example when people mean to say that they don’t care, they say, “I could care less”. If you could care less than you are saying that you do care, not that you don’t.  If you have trouble with this saying here is a little [...]

I finished reading Leaving Microsoft to Save the World by John Wood, about a week ago and now that I’ve had time to digest the book I’d like to comment. John Wood has lived a very exciting life. He was a Director of Business Development for Microsoft Asia for years and had achieved all his [...]

This is the new AmazonKindle. Let me start with, I want one. It is a wireless reading device with a hi-resolution screen. It collects reading material (newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, etc.) and is designed to replace the need of carrying a book. It is about the size of a common soft-backed book. Amazon obviously could [...]

  This is the kind of class that I wish I’d taken in college. I probably wouldn’t have been able to hang as a Computer Science major but I do think the real world nature of this class is something that I would have loved. This course covers everything from the coding of these applications (technical), product development, and market [...]