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Bill Gates, all but retires...
Today is the last day of the 2 year transition period for Bill Gates as he retires from day to day operations at Microsoft - the company is co-founded 33 years ago.
Read more:
- Bill Gates is retiring, sort of
- Return of the '70s Weirdos
- Bill Gates: Looking Back, Moving Ahead Video Index
- The meaning of Bill Gates
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Vocabulary & free rice...
Donate Rice to a needy person (free) - For each right word, the website donates 20 rice grains through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger worldwide. And while you are at it, you get to increase your vocabulary.
Cheerz,
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Microsoft versus Yahoo!...
A lot has already been said and written on the 'Microsoft versus Yahoo!' war. Here is an interesting article about the potential takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft being thwarted by the white knight News Corporation which may end up shortchanging Yahoo! shareholders. Textbook example of 'Wall street versus Silicon Valley'.
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My coldest day ever (yet)...
This week has been coldest for me ever, with temperatures dropping to -40 degree Celsius and -60 degree with the wind chill factored in here in the Prairies (city of Calgary). My coldest day before this was in Montreal about 2.5 years ago at -44 degree Celsius.
Sweet Prairies - Calgary - Canada winter. -
Calgary phase 2 continues...
Phase 2 continues in Calgary:
Started in December 2007 with a possible end date during the first week of February 2008.
May have a possible phase 3.
Shuttling across Canada.
LP paperwork close to getting done (DM update was on January 21, 2008) at 7 months & counting.
VP/JP/DP moved to their new townhouse (December 23, 2007). Co-ordinating & helping ( Read more... )
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Calgary, end of phase 1...
Back home in Mississauga after the Calgary assignment - phase 1 complete. -
In Calgary...
Been in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for about 3 weeks and living out of a suitcase and dining in restaurants. Calgary is one nice beautiful city and the oil boom and oil riches are showing here. Just had the first snow of this season in Calgary about 2 nights ago ( Read more... ) -
Chinook, the perfect player...
Scientists at the University of Alberta (Canada) report that they've built an unbeatable checkers-playing computer. Their machine, Chinook, has solved checkers: It proves that if two players play perfectly, making no mistakes, the game of checkers will result in a draw ( Read more... ) -
One of the greatest matches...
About a year ago, the greatest one-day cricket match of all time, was played in Johannesburg between Australia and South Africa. It is next to impossible to successfully chase a score of 434 in 50 overs, and that too against the indomitable Aussies, but South Africa did just that.
Do we see history repeating itself today? Yet another great match is ( Read more... ) -
Win some, lose some...
So ok, India lost to Sri Lanka in the crucial match and is (almost) out of the ICC World Cup. But what is with the Indian media and the Indian fans (the majority of them at least ( Read more... )