The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
Steven Paul Jobs is no more … Hard to believe, harder to accept and almost impossible to imagine a future with out him … Instead of lamenting I decided to draw inspiration …
For me his stanford speech aptly titled “How to live before you die” personifies Steve
“It is fun to be a pirate than join the Navy“! and other quotes from this Slideshare …
“Work Hard to make simple” and other quotes from Marko Saric’s blog …
Huffington Post got it right when it quoted Steve – “… focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex …“
In many ways the essence of Steve is the very famous quote from Gizmodo and others:
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.—Playboy, 1987
On a technology level, “Jobs refused to accept that software and hardware were best designed and engineered separately. For him, the venerable insight summarized by Thomas Hughes, the grand historian of American technology, as ‘the system must be first’ …” – A good POV in IEEE spectrum by Pascal
[Update 11/7/11] Malcom Gladwell’s review in The Tweaker in The New Yorker is an excellent read. ‘Jobs’s sensibility was more editorial than inventive. “I’ll know it when I see it,” …’.
“Was Steve Jobs a Samuel Crompton (inventor) or was he a Richard Roberts (the tinkerer)?” asks Malcom …
As Washington Post says “He (Jobs) would be getting off here; we were to proceed without him into the unknown. Let it go and look ahead was the message all along.“
Other sources of good Jobs quotes: 
For some reason, while driving to work, I started thinking about what I want out of Twitter. May be because only the other day did I read the Venturebeat blog on this subject … Also I was talking with Aaron on a different context, but touched upon Twitter feature set …
While the Venturebeat blog has a detailed analysis of Twitter, I am not sure about threads, in-line photos and so forth. It is not worth losing the essential nature of the medium.
I use Twitter for 3 things – to keep current with topics that interest me, keep in touch with friends & acquaintances and finally publish things that I am interested in – many times as a bookmark !
In My Humble Opinion, the two essential features that can take Twitter to the next level, without sacrificing the essential nature of the medium, are …
It is almost impossible to follow topics. The List functionality never worked for me. It should be as easy to follow and unfollow topics. And in the day and age, it is not that hard to run the tweets through a set of analytics engines, cluster them by subjects and offer the topics with the same semantics as people ! The interaction semantics are important and that is what makes Twitter Twitter. There was some thoughts about tweet threading – I think that defeats the purpose; tweets are stateless and that attributes is very important.
Twitter is the right platform for ad-hoc,ephemeral spaces to exchange quick notes. IM is too heavy weight and not that easy for quick things like “Where is that meeting room” or “Which seat are you in” or “What should we discuss next” et al. A one-to-many exchange, between people who are spatially (and even temporally) in separate spaces. They might in a plane, on a call or even in a hallway! Should be easy to add a “!” tag, and shout the info. Yep, folks need to know what the ! tag is. Actually come to think of it, we could have many types of tags using a lot of the ‘$’,'@’,'%’,'^’,'&’ and ‘*’ characters with different semantics! Time for a “Tweet Mark-up Language” ?
What says thee ? How do you use Twitter and what would you expect it to do next ?
Rebekah Cox at Quora has an excellent blog on Design. A few good points from the blog:
No, this is not a music critic’s blog, but part of our golu 2010 (or gollu 2010);
And yes, they are literally nut heads & there is heavy metal involved !
We got these during our visit to Mumbai earlier this year …. let the pictures speak the ~9000 words …
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The Nut Heads in detail :
The lead - I like the one legged pose !
At the Violin, Nut O'4
Accordion by Nut O'5
Guitar by Nut O'7
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Yep, it is that time of the year … navratri festival and the art of a golu (or gollu)…
< I will post a few pictures of our golu, still WIP. The management has to approve the release of the shots! >
This year, in addition to the traditional idols from last year, we have a few interesting displays …
Mesh Frogs!
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?Cheers
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Finally we can turn off conversations in Gmail – Hooray ! This is one of those “What were they thinking” moment.
The good (and smart) folks in Google never understood e-mail or may be that they are trying to make it something it is not … Google had a recent blog on this subject … In the blog Google calls it a “feature” and “recent innovation” – Yikes … Boys and Girls at Google, I have news for you … this “recent innovative feature” of displaying e-mail in descending chronological order, has been in existence for a few years, that too in e-mail clients built by mere mortals ;o) … Sorry couldn’t resist !
Remember the ill-fated Google Wave or even the Goggle Buzz …. IMHO, all are Google trying to fit a square peg in a round hole …. IM is a conversation, chat is a conversation, … am sure there will be other newer ways of conducting an on-line conversation …. I rest my case
You have to love this game -the agonies and the ecstasies ! Two great articles from the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 between Germany & Argentina – reflecting not only the game but also lessons for business !
[Update 1/July 4,2010] NY Times Article on Argentina and Maradona
[Update 2/July 11,2010] And a fitting epilogue to Spain’s 1-0 over Netherlands … Looking forward to 2014/Brazil !
Picked up the mille
nnium-crossing Glenrothes 1991 – the 750ml grenade, not the baby grenade [2] ;o), from the local BevMo. Plan to open tonight – anyone care to join me “to enjoy its richness with a new and exciting Single Malt experience of unmatched excellence” ? – that too with “with Chopin’s Nocturne in D flat major” [1] (& a little of Shaan, Sonu Nigam and Sukhvinder Singh) ! Interesting reviews:
“Balanced, with a longer finish than The Return of the King–including the same deceptive multiple happy and sad endings,”
“… the millennium-crossing Glenrothes 1991-2007 is Neo in The Matrix: It is The One.”[2]
” … A calming and comforting dram…ideal for taking you away from the rush and dash. ..” – That does it for me …
Cheers
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[1] http://www.bbr.com/product-66151E-the-glenrothes-1991-vintage
[2] http://www.maltimpostor.com/2009/08/glenrothes-1991-bottled-in-2007-100-ml.html
