Hiring

There are some openings for experienced software engineers at Chelmsford (MA) and Freehold (NJ). If you know of some good people who might be interested, do have 'em contact me.

Board games

One would think these highly paid corporate executives worked in the interest of the shareholders rather than indulging in the sort of mess they created at HP.

Hi tech gadget

Pretty steep price (close to $1000) but apparently this toy comes with a remote control. I wonder what will happen if my 15 month old gets her hands on it when I'm using the equipment:

A wireless remote control panel that runs on two AAA batteries controls the Swash's actions, and this remote can be mounted on a wall if you choose. Ten buttons and a display cover the front of this remote. The two wands are controlled by buttons on the remote grouped according to the gender of the user.

What is it, you ask? Here is the full story.

US Open

Hope you guys saw the awesome Federer yesterday in men's finals.

But what do you do if you lost in the second round? Here are some tips from Sania Mirza:

Go shopping!














And eat at Taco Bell?

I thought she made enough dough to afford a better restaurant.

Blogging

About blogging and bloggers.

Microsoft Madrasa

They captured the universities students by offering their software at dirt-cheap prices. I guess this was to be expected.

Catching up

One of the points that "The world is flat" brought up is reflected here too.

Coaching camp?

I thought the Indian team assembled in Bangalore for a coaching camp on "cricket" for the upcoming Champions trophy!

Quotable quote

Duncan Fletcher, the coach of England cricket team, on the reporting of ball tempering row that engulfed the 4th test match between Eng and Pak recently:

All I want to say is that people thought they wrote the truth: it wasn't the truth, it was far from the truth. I know what the truth was and I'm very, very happy with the truth and I'd just like to move on.

Indians in US

Hardly any surprise here.

Reverse brain drain

Old news?