Big News for Macromedia users : Jeremy Allaire, the Chief Technology Officer is leaving Macromedia to join a Boston-area venture firm, where he’ll be technologist and entrepreneur in residence. For those who don’t know, he was the founder of the ColdFusion language. In 2001 he sold his company, Allaire Inc, to Macromedia for a fantastic sum of money besides becoming its CTO. His blog is pretty famous with tech guys.
Starting today, I’m experimenting by keeping a bowl of chocolates on my work table at office. Anyone is free to walk by and help themselves to it. It’s an inspiration from the CEO of Leo Burnett who keeps apples on his table ‘coz believes that it lightens up the meetings and gives the people who visit him a cheery feeling. It’s time for me to check that out.
My cousin brother, Pradeep, landed home from UK for a break. We were discussing about his experiences there and he says that racism is pretty rampant. Any brown coloured person is derogatorily referred as a “Paki” immaterial of the fact that he could be an Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri lankan or an Afghan.
An American writes an article “Why we still need H-1B professionals” from India which sparks a HUUUUGE debate in the discussion board. An interesting read.
Why CDMA cellphone is not good : As seen in a poster today by the GSM cellular Industry. It’s amazing how once fierce rivals Airtel, Hutch & RPG now join hands to fight their common CDMA enemies – BSNL, Tata Indicom and specially Reliance. Here are the main points seen in the poster.
– CDMA does not have roaming facility. With GSM, you can take your cellphone anywhere in the world.
A nice write-up about Kalpana Chawla by Julian Matthews, who runs an independent media company called TriNetizen. Thanks to the exhuastive research done by him, I came to know of unknown tidbits of info on Kalpana.
– She was called “K.C” by her NASA colleagues.
– Her family members called her “Montu”.
– She was the youngest daughter of tire factory owner, Banarsi Lal and housewife Sanyogita.
– She was the only girl in the Aeronautical Branch at Punjab Engineering College.
– She wed Jean-Pierre Harrison in 1984. They had no children.
– The same year she graduated from University of Texas with a master’s in aerospace engineering.
– She joined University of Colorado for her Ph.D.
– Tragically the same college in which Ellison Onizuka, who died in the Challenger explosion on Jan 28th, 1986, attended.
– She was chosen by NASA from 2962 applicants
– She was a strict vegetarian.
– Her meals in space included rice pilaf, tortillas, garden split-pea soup, nuts and dried fruits, cheese spread and tea.
– During her space mission, she carried Music CDs of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia and Ravi Shankar.
– During her 1997 space expedition, she was in space for 16 days and travelled 6.5 million miles.
Go ahead, read the full article for many more insights. Julian has given permission to reproduce the article in its entirety.
New York Times’ Web Site plans print-like Ad format by displaying half-page magazine-style ads adjacent to its articles, making its online pages appear more similar to their print counterparts.
P.S : Noticed that the Vice President of sales, Krebs, has a close sounding name to my nickname, Kribs.
How blogging changed journalism……almost. Chris Mooney , in this nice write-up, examines how Weblogs have altered the balance of power in media and created ripples through society.
