Archive for November 2009

Finding my “nothing box”

Nov 19th, 2009 | By | Category: My Life & Thoughts

Few things beat just sitting down with a cup of coffee, an empty mind and my BlackBerry.
I think I’m beginning to figure out where my “nothing box” is.



Josh and Chuck of “Stuff You Should Know” podcast challenges Stephen Colbert to the $100k mark for Kiva.org

Nov 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Other People

I thought this was rather interesting. Stephen Colbert apparently started his team last year while the Stuff You Should Know team was only a month back. I was expecting him to do better than this(yes, i’m a fan.)
Anyway, good luck to both teams.



BlackBerry Development…about two months in.

Nov 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Work

It’s been slightly more than a month and a half since I ventured into mobile application development and I’m quickly realising it’s a very different ballgame from normal web based application development.
The biggest difference is the amount of time it sucks doing testing. Having been doing the PHP/MySQL combination for the past couple of years, [...]



What would you do with 5 bucks and 2 hours?

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Other Stuff

I caught this video earlier and it reminded me how it’s important to challenge the assumptions. After going at a job for some time, we tend to unconsciously accept the norms…