Vijay Narayanan on December 14th, 2009

Dimitar Berbatov has been a near-tragic failure since he moved to Manchester United from Spurs in the summer of 2008. The player who came in for over 30 million pounds has only scored four goals in 18 games this season, and apart from the one wondergoal against Sunderland(?), he hasn’t wow-ed me at all. But [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on December 1st, 2009

I was listening to a Bloomberg News podcast this weekend, and the topic of discussion was outsourcing. Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati was one of the guests. The discussion was on familiar lines, centering largely around the politics and the economics of outsourcing. What set me thinking was an rather interesting point raised by Prof. Bhagwati. He [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 5th, 2009

Here’s what I found when signing up for a discounted copy of Windows 7 (for anyone with a .edu email address):

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Vijay Narayanan on October 15th, 2009

Saw this on the train ride home. I cannot comment on this advertisement without adding a standard disclaimer about “dignity of labor”. Or be labeled an elitist.

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Vijay Narayanan on October 11th, 2009

The title of this video is “Watch This. You will laugh to death.” I can only say, “Oh God!”

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