My son pointed this out to me today about how much a war costs. It is mind boggling to think about this. Take a look for yourself. Source : costofwar.com
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Astonishing ways the resources could have been alternatively spent:
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Add comment June 21st, 2005
OK,
chatting online cost me a lot of money this week. But, I am not complaining.
I was looking for someone to help clean my rain gutters on my roof which
are clogged with so much leaf debris, thanks to some pine trees in my yard.
I searched on …
1 comment June 10th, 2005
Richard Veryard (an analyst with CBDI Forum)
responding to my earlier post
has some interesting comments. I totally agree with what he says on vendors
falsely posing as independent experts.
You can‘t hide (forever) in Blogosphere. So be…
Add comment June 9th, 2005
Here are some instructions for adding a Favicon to your blog:
You need an Icon (.ico) file that is 16×16 pixels in size. If it
is not this size, the browser might ignore your icon.
If you have an image file (JPEG/GIF) that you want to use…
Add comment June 3rd, 2005
Got an email today from the ROME Logo contest folks that the voting is now open. I blogged earlier about my submission which you can see here. Check out the entries, register (takes a moment) and vote for your favorite logo. Hopefully, you like my entry. Let the best logo win!
Add comment June 1st, 2005
I
have been wondering a bit on why IT industry analysts are not yet blogging.
Like many in my field, I occasionally look at what the analysts and pundits
are saying about different trends in the industry. 
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I remember early days in my career when I paid great attention to many different
reports from many analyst reports on any topic from CASE tools to RISC vs. CISC
to CAD/CAM to RDBMS to almost anything I could get my hands on. Since these
reports were exorbitantly priced, the company I used to work for could only
afford to buy a select few and that too when the reports were slightly older
and probably obsolete. They were certainly entertaining and sometimes enlightening.
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Anyway, I wanted to check out how my analyst brethren are doing in the blogging
world. And here is what I found. Almost no one really blogs in the analyst world.
Or if they do, I could not find them. I did a preliminary search to find any
blogs out there from any analysts and here is what I found so far:
With the exception of Richard
who has been blogging before joining the Burton Group (no link to his blog
from Burton Group site though).
To
make some sense of this, I had a brief session with HAL
9000 and he came up with the chart shown here. According to HAL, the more
inclined you are to be an Analyst, the less probable it is that you
are going to blog because you already have a full-time job publishing your analysis
that makes money for your company. But then, I could have given wrong input
to HAL (GIGO, remember), in
which case if you know of an analyst blog(s), please provide the link(s) in
your comment so HAL can compute.
Add comment May 24th, 2005
I remember this old but
cool movie called Powers of Ten, which was an elaborate creation of photographic art based
on the work of Ray and Charles Eames. The movie is basically a series of images
that scale up or down by a power of 10 to show the continuous connection between
the very large (universe) and the very small (atoms or sub-atomic particles).
I tracked the official Ray and Charles Eames site at Eames
Office which links to this Powers of
Ten site which talks about the 9 minute original movie and other related
stuff. If you don‘t want to shell out for the DVD, then be satisfied with this
online Java Applet imitation. A couple of years ago someone
had emailed me that
link which I rediscovered today. This is not the original Powers of Ten,
but gets the point across. It‘s Java, online and free!
1 comment May 20th, 2005
Interesting indeed.
From James Snell‘s blog:
As these guidelines were being drafted, we drew heavily upon our own experiences as bloggers and the excellent prior art in this space graciously provided by Sun, Microsoft, Groove and many others who have drafted policies and guidelines for their employees.
As you know, I have ranted before on anonymous (when-there-is-no-reason-to-be-anonymous) blogs before. So I find the following excerpt from the IBM Blogging Policy relevant and interesting to note:
Be who you are. Some bloggers work anonymously, using pseudonyms or false screen names. IBM discourages that in blogs, wikis or other forms of online participation that relate to IBM, our business or issues with which the company is engaged. We believe in transparency and honesty. If you are blogging about your work for IBM, we encourage you to use your real name, be clear who you are, and identify that you work for IBM. Nothing gains you notice in the “blogosphere” more than honesty — or dishonesty. If you have a vested interest in something you are discussing, be the first to point it out. But also be smart about protecting yourself and your privacy. What you publish will be around for a long time, so consider the content carefully and also be judicious in disclosing personal details.
For a somewhat funny outtake on this, check this out.
Dear IBMer's, Welcome to the Blogosphere!
Add comment May 17th, 2005
So I saw
this thing about Sun Bloggers and South Park characters at Geoff‘s
blog. I could not resist giving it a spin. Here is what I ended up with as my very
own South Park character. How do I look?
Check out Janina's website
to create your own character.
1 comment May 16th, 2005
Lots
of things happen in a cab. I have met some interesting cabbies over the years.
OK, and some not so interesting ones as well.
Ok, first it was the chefs.
Now, the cabbies are out to get me 
On the way to Chicago couple days ago, the cabbie that took me to the airport
was an Afghan. He asked me where I was from and I said I am from around here.
I knew what he was going to say next:
"No, where are you really from? You must be from India…"
And then he starts blasting Bollywood music on the car stereo. I am like:
"Hello? Can you please turn the volume down? I am getting a call dude."
Inevitably, when I ride cabs in the bay area and most indian/afghan cab drivers
around here take one look at me and start playing the latest Indian movie songs.
But, I am not really into new indian movie music.
I might sometimes enjoy some oldies and ghazals. But who‘s asking.
But the wierdest cabbie encounter happened to me a few months ago when I traveled
to Chicago (coincidentally). This guy turned out to be an evangelical cabbie,
a kind I hadn‘t met until then. And he was one rude evangelical cabbie. Halfway
there, he started a casual conversation with me and out of the blue he asked
me:
"Have you accepted Jesus Christ into your life?"
I was a bit dumb founded. So I staggered a bit and said:
"Err…no. What do you mean?"
He said: "Do you believe Jesus is the Christ?"
I said: "I don‘t know. I am not a christian if that is what you are
asking."
He kept blabbering on about this and that and when we reached the hotel
he got a bit agitated and angrily said: "If you don‘t accept Jesus
Christ as your savior you are going to hell!"
Boy, was I glad to get out of his cab or what? No tips for you, nasty cabbie!
He scared the bejesus
out of me!
Add comment May 13th, 2005
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