Don’t Get Weirded Out by “Open Source”
I read recently Robert Lindh’s post on his blog about the argument he makes for re-branding the concept of “open source” and I have to sympathize with it. If you’re a techie you are quite likely accustomed to the concept of open source and probably use some open source framework or stack. In fact you […]
Restarting My Rugby “Career”
After my first game for Silicon Valley Rugby — guess who played at blind side? 😉
Snow in My Hometown – 01/Dec/2014
Thanksgiving 2014
Peking Duck – NYC – Nov/2014
One of the great Yelp finds 🙂
New York City — Nov/2014
Welcome to British Gas!
This is another speech I’ve given at Valley Toastmasters, and it’s part of Competent Communicator manual, project #6: “Vocal Variety”. As a reminder, the objectives of the project are: Use voice volume, pitch, rate and quality to reflect and add meaning and interest to your message Use pauses to enhance your message Use vocal variety […]
Should I Still Worry About Handwriting?
This is something that’s been bugging me for quite a bit now to be honest to the point where it’s getting into becoming an obsession: are we using writing (and reading for that matter) for all the wrong reasons? Is it still needed? Or is it an archaic way of communicating — and as such […]
Small Business or Startup?
I had an interesting discussion recently with a friend of mine about titles and terminology used nowadays in business, and it prompted me to continue my trail of thoughts on this on my blog. We talked about how a lot of companies label themselves rather proudly as startups — an idea which my friend was […]











