Stories of the American Experience This creative group of high school students from Bismarck, North Dakota overcame the challenge of making personal and meaningful connections with historical events. They conducted interviews with war veterans in their own community, and then transformed their stories into powerful and emotional documentary called Stories of the American Experience. The [...]
Archive for June, 2005
Amateur Video on the American Experience
Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Are you moving to Broadband in India
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I have been very happy with my BSNL DataOne broadband connection. Its always on and gives me 256Kbps performance in shared mode. I have also connected a wireless acess point and share it between two computers and the response so far (touch wood!) has been good. With lots of talk about private players launching all [...]
Indian Competition : The Darwinian Side
Posted in Uncategorized on June 26, 2005 | 1 Comment »
(via IHT) Somini Sengupta talks about Anupam who from Bihar’s lower middle class makes it to IIT. Anupam Kumar, 17, is the eldest son of a scooter-rickshaw driver. He lives in a three-room house made of bricks, mortar and a hot tinroof, where water rarely comes out of the tap and the electricity is off [...]
50 cool websites
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
(via Time) the coolest websites coverging blogs, news sites, shopping, food, entertainment. check it out >>>
‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2005 | 6 Comments »
(via Stanford) from the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this [...]
Why are Toyota Cars better ?
Posted in Uncategorized on June 15, 2005 | 1 Comment »
The other night, I was out at dinner with an old friend who works for General Motors in Detroit. We drove to dinner in his father’s Toyota Corolla. Since my student days in 1989, Corolla has been a best seller in the U.S. markets and gaining market share in the India market since a low [...]
Mikhail Gorbachev on Software
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
(via Dan bricklin) The Russian software industry association, RUSSOFT, arranged for Gorbachev to give a speech on his yearly trip to the US that highlighted the increased cooperation between the US and Russia around IT. Their software association has a close relationship with the Massachusetts Software Council and chose their meeting as the venue. I [...]
