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Problem with Open Textbooks: They are Free

Textbooks will eventually be free.

Swoopo is a Scam

TechChrunch has an article about Swoopo saying that it has a Hint of Scam. Well, SHAME ON YOU TECHCHRUNCH!! It doesn’t have a ‘Hint’ of scam, IT IS VERY BLATANT THAT SWOOPO IS A SCAM!
I am very saddened to find out about Swoopo today, in light of the other scams that have been going on [...]

‘National Scandal’ BBQ

So the theme of the day is ‘The Grilling of AIG Execs‘ over the 160+ million dollars that was given away as bonuses for ‘the best and the brightest’ leaders of the company.
People’s outrage over the bonuses is certainly well based, considering that AIG has been given billions of bail out money, and that, considering [...]

Happy 15th Birthday, Linux!

That is counting from Linux 1.0 release. Linus started writing the code about 3 years before that.
Thank you for running my boxes for the last 10 years..
See: http://i.gizmodo.com/5169216/happy-15th-birthday-linux

Better to Say Sorry than to Ask Permission

I’ve read that phrase numerous times from the quips of two Bugzilla systems. Both systems did not cite the original person who coined the phrase, which make me believe that it was entered by the founder of companies to encourage employees to take bold decissions.
Once I did consciously decided to do something extraordinarily bold in [...]

Sergei Brin @ 101

Bay area comute is never boring:

Accidents are daily phenomenons that you have to consider in your travel plan.
Nice and rare vehicles are often spotted here. From Ferrari to Maserati to Ducati to Smart. C-class Mercedeses  are as frequent as Honda Civics, and Lexuses are just  more common than GM cars.
Phoning without hands free and texting [...]

Bill Gates’s 10 (or 11) rules of life!!!

I saw a post on Twitter about Bill Gates’s 10 rules of life, and I clicked it. I found the list quite good, but the post was a bit vague. It says that the 10 rules were given in a high school event, but it didn’t mention which high school, or when.
So I Googled it, [...]

Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

An award winning recipe of Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

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