Posted by: rocknroli on: June 17, 2009
VSee (a desktop videoconferencing solution that Hrishi’s company makes) is supporting UN’s World Refugee Day.
Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama are going to use VSee to talk to refugees in Chad (Darfur) and Pakistan, on Sat June 20. VSee will be relaying the feed on http://wrd.vsee.com – you can ask questions to the refugees directly. [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: May 12, 2008
I do not spend a lot of time on the Oracle website fortunately. But whenever I have to, it baffles me how anyone can stand it. For the last 1 hour I am trying to renew our membership of the account. Yes, we want to give money to Oracle, so that we can continue “trying” [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: March 24, 2008
Its sort of odd that I am writing about Sirius today, the same day DOJ has approved their acquisition of XMSR. But this article is no financial commentary on it…its about my experience with using Sirius radio for about 6-months now.
Anyone who sees it in my car, inadvertently asks “why”…so here are my many reasons [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: January 30, 2008
Although I try not to generally link to articles that can be found easily on popular sites….this one was hard to pass up on. I am big fan of Scott Adams…almost becoming a bigger fan of his blog than Dilbert. So a few days back he somehow found out that the popular songs are the [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: January 14, 2008
Last week our TV broke down. Our options were whether to spend a couple of hundred bucks on a fuse to get it repaired or get a new one. We have been contemplating the latter anyways. But while we optimize our options, I am stuck figuring out a mindless activity which helps me [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: September 26, 2007
In an evening MBA program, its often hard to physically meet your teammates after a full day’s work. My team for Econ consisted of two of us from Bay area and one of the team-members was actually residing in San Diego. Even when everyone is in the same location, it’s hard to drive down to [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: September 20, 2007
I had been troubled by bookmarking for a while. I knew the whole thing about social bookmarking through del.icio.us, etc. But I was looking for something seamless, and personal. Currently, I own three computers – the old iBook, the new MacBook Pro and the work Thinkpad. Unfortunately between Windows/ Mac/ PowerPC/ Intel etc its not [...]
Posted by: rocknroli on: September 17, 2007
(This post is not a spam and numerous people with time on their hands have tried this successfully. With that I will I’ll stop defending the legitimacy of this post.)
This was by far the most shady project I had undertaken, but my thought was that an investment of ~$400, could have an upside [...]
