When I was about 17, I bought a cheap electric guitar and a small amp, and began trying to emulate the music I listened to. I wanted to play loud rock and since it was my angry-young-man phase (which, now that I think about it, lasted far longer than it probably should have), playing guitar [...]
Author Archives: Edmund O'Reilly
Meditation: Here Comes the Science
27 April, 2008 – 9:28 pm
For the past 20 years (give or take), the word “Zen” has been used liberally in association with some personal, commercial or business concept to suggest that the concept in question can be “mastered”, usually through a “formula” that someone “discovered”. Typically, though, this mental elixir is alluded to in a self-help book (or eBook), [...]
A Firm with a Grip
27 April, 2008 – 12:14 pm
It seems to me that the euphemisms and rhetoric used in everyday corporate double-talk are not really examined for their potential humor. It’s always about penetration, size, growth, multiple partners, hands-on, delivering the goods, etc. Sometimes it’s even about “getting in bed with…”, usually referring to an undesirable vendor or competitor. So, with all the [...]
Life in the Fast Lane
29 January, 2008 – 11:36 am
To get some perspective on how much has changed in a relatively short period of time, check out the following video. Among the statistics mentioned are: In 2006, there were 1.3 million college grads in the US, 3.1 million in India and 3.3 million in China; 100% of the Indian graduates speak English and, it [...]
Trading Places
28 January, 2008 – 6:05 pm
I’m typing this entry on my new MacBook Pro, which I purchased recently having decided that a laptop would be a more efficient way of working since it was time (yet again) to upgrade. This is now the sixth Mac I’ve owned, but more interestingly — and coincidentally — is that each time I’ve purchased [...]
‘Live Documents’: Joining the Online Office Migration
24 November, 2007 – 3:28 pm
From Macworld: Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia is placing his bets on an online office productivity suite that aims to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft and Google. Instant Collaboration Software Technologies (InstaColl), a Bangalore company co-founded by Bhatia, unveiled Live Documents on Wednesday, an online service that allows users to access and edit documents using [...]
