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Category Archives: Personal
Photos: St. Petersburg Dam
As weather channel was predicting 20′-30′ rise in water level during Hurricane Irine around NYC, I was thinking, would not it be nice to have a dam that would protect the city from just such a storm surge? Just days … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Photography
Tagged Dam, Gulf of Finland, Russia, Saint Petersburg
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There is a metaphor in there somewhere…
My Dear Daughter (DD)Â is very serious about collecting money. Right now it is for books, but that is not really important. In one of her musings she wrote, “I hope tooth fairy brings me $5, or may be $8, then … Continue reading
A review of Mia and the Migoo
A few weeks ago I went with my Dad to the children’s film festival. We saw ‘Mia and the Migoo’. It was pretty scary but it all ended well. Mia is the girl in the movie. She is searching for her father, … Continue reading
Looking for feedback for @startupweekend #swnyc
Our team is building a platform for helping people achieve their goals. We want to know if our approach – using social networks, accurate and convenient tracking of progress, combined with SHAME through TRANSPARENCY and REWARD of PERSISTENCE make sense. … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Personal
Tagged Business, Social network, Startup Weekend
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Online surveys – how not to do them
I get asked to answer a lot of online surveys, and usually ignore them. Once in a while a product I like will ask me to fill out a survey – and I will agree. Most of the time I … Continue reading
On Lincoln NYTimes offer
The people who sign up for the Lincoln promotion aren’t handing over their credit-card numbers: they won’t automatically start getting billed when the promotion expires in 2012. And they’ll also learn that if you’re not a subscriber, you get shown … Continue reading
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Tagged New York Times, NYT, paywall, Subscription business model
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I have been called a geek, but I do not deserve it, yet.
Next time someone tells me, “you are such a geek” I will point them to the quote below and say, regretfully, I wish I were, but I am still just learning. Then I said, “Hmm, I have an intuition that … Continue reading
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A little about change we inflict on ourselves
I liked the beginning: They gave her The Device when she was only 2 years old. It sent signals along the optic nerve that swiftly transported her brain to an alternate universe—a captivating other world. By the time she was … Continue reading
Friendly promo: FoReal:FirstBlood for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G on the iTunes App Store
Pretty excited about a game a friend wrote now available in AppStore. Combines exercise, augmented reality, and first person shooting. How can you go wrong?! FoReal:FirstBlood for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad Wi-Fi + 3G on the iTunes App … Continue reading
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Really?! Another op-ed rant – Higher Taxes Mean I’ll Work Less – NYTimes.com
Seriously. I know I am overdoing it on the op-eds, but even without “fisking” the article it is another mish-mash of wishful thinking, half-truth, and plain inconsistency. The only thing I can conclude from the article is that N. Gregory Mankiw … Continue reading