Europe's skills fall behind Asia Europe is falling behind Asia in terms of education and skills, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It blames France and Germany which are criticised for mediocre education systems and their inherent (tags: Europe Asia Education) Read more
Just a bit of update. I was hosting my site on my friend's server but have moved to a more permanent host (Thanks Rajesh for the help all these months!). I have made a few changes - I have added delicious links of the day to be posted to my blog this is a real cool thing! Go to settings in your del.icio.us account and look for » daily blog posting .... click on it .. and put in the following for the links to be posted at midnight to your blog.. cool huh!! The first entry was made last night as you can see in the previous post. out_name: USER NAME out_pass: Password Read more
McClatchy to Buy Knight Ridder for $4.5B - Yahoo! News The McClatchy Co. has reached a deal to buy Knight Ridder Inc., the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher, for about $4.5 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced Monday. McClatchy will also assume about $2 billion in Knight Ridder's debt. (tags: Mergers Acquisition) Read more
This is a great article on how to build 'enterprise level apps on a bootstrap budget.. written by someone who has done it himself! What does it actually cost? When we built DropSend, it was our first enterprise level web app and I had no way to predict how much it would cost to build. Frustratingly, no one would share their figures with me either. So we had to learn the hard way. Yuck. In order to help you avoid this pain, I’m going to walk you through, step-by-step, the costs involved in building an enterprise web app, on a budget. I’m going to be 100% honest about what we spent so you’ll have a good idea of what kind of budget you’ll need to set. Read more
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Read more
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Read more
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, dont put it off. Read more
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Read more
Never eat more than you can lift. Read more
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. Read more
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