Vijay Narayanan on April 25th, 2008

Some (crazy) activists throw pies at Thomas Friedman as he begins a speech at Brown University. Ridiculous, but not funny. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Vijay Narayanan on April 24th, 2008

Math tutor required urgently; must be competent in basic arithmetic, especially addition of 7-digit and 8-digit numbers*; to teach a 60 year-old busy woman. Contract begins immediately and ends in August. Position involves extensive travel. Pay negotiable. Interested parties contact Hillary Clinton for President. *Prior experience ducking gunfire while rushing across foreign air-base tarmacs a [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 22nd, 2008

1. When in the midst of a group of people discussing about innovation, you find yourself saying “It is not at all necessary for companies to innovate. It is more important to be a fast follower than an innovator”, do you call yourself a pragmatist or a pessimist or worse, a combination of the two, [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 21st, 2008

The Republican Media Machine is underway already. Of course, you may wonder when they ever stopped! Senator McCain’s campaign is latching on to the politics-by-fear tactic of George W. Bush and Karl Rove by sending out fundraising e-mails citing Hamas’ support for Senator Obama. This is shameful, and does not become of a good man [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 21st, 2008

When you apply filters in Excel 2007, and then copy the filtered data from one sheet to another, you will find (to your frustration) that what has been copied to the new sheet is not just the filtered data, but also the invisible data that was filtered out. Oh, the ways of Microsoft! If I [...]

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