The Dude abides.

Culture Matters

The mid-week sojourn to Thailand gave me an opportunity to finish “Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress“, a collection of essays by reknowned scholars (Francis Fukuyama, Nathan Glazer, David Landes etc) on the impact of culture on human societies. It was slow reading at the start, until I came across a fantastic paper by [...]

FOSS.in Day 1 (Project Day 1)

So, here is a report of foss.in Project Day 1. Colin, Aizatto and yours truly decided on attending the Mozilla Project Day. It started off by a short introduction by Mary Colvig from Mozilla Corporation.
Oh the places you’ll go! (things you can do with firefox extensions)
Myk Melez then started off Firefox extensions “Oh the places [...]

“Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men”

A brilliant read, I find it very true in this day and age when hiring ICT graduates (hence my rule of dismissing all locally awarded degrees as being irrelevant as an indicator of performance of the candidate being interviewed). Some excerpts:

For a time I tried picking these youngsters out of the colleges. But my [...]