TO SERVE THE NATIONAL CITY AND THROUGH IT THE NATION – Home-grown…
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- TO SERVE THE NATIONAL CITY AND THROUGH IT THE NATION – Home-grown…
- Why democracy stirs in Mideast
- Woodside’s Passage to India
- Better to run away from this circus
- Rex finds living is easy with Linux
TO SERVE THE NATIONAL CITY AND THROUGH IT THE NATION – Home-grown…
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Why democracy stirs in Mideast
Christian Science Monitor – Mar 14, 2005
But so, in a circuitous way, is Osama Bin Laden himself. So is the ripple effect of elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian territories, and Ukraine. And so, as experts on the region emphasize, are the many home-grown democracy advocates who have long laid the groundwork for an Arab bloom. “We are witnessing the twilight of the old order. Partly that is because the Arab world is feeling the pressure from outside,” says Hassan al-Ebraheem, a former Kuwaiti education minister and longtime advocate of democratic reforms in his and other Arab countries. “But democracy is not made by outside influence,” he adds. “To have democracy, you must have democrats.
Woodside’s Passage to India
BusinessWeek – Mar 15, 2005
, companies pay twice for software: first they shell out to a software company for a license fee, and then they pay about ten times that amount to consultants who customize the software. Many Indian consultancies now combine those steps and reduce the software-to-service price ratio from 1:10 to about 1:2. Rather than customizing applications from, say, SAP, they simply tailor their own home-grown software to customers’ needs. Not that India isn’t still turning out interesting service companies. Case in point: Gupta hipped us to MeritTrac, a 4. 5-year-old Bangalore-based startup that helps companies assess candidates for recruitment. The company is currently in the market to raise some VC.
Better to run away from this circus
The Age – Mar 14, 2005
It’s set somewhere around 1985 and I’m doomedto an eternity of hybrid stadium rock: think ELO meets PhillipGlass, or Kenny G meets Sheila Chandra, amplified by 10. Booming,annoying, unrelenting. Apparently, Cirque du Soleil have twigged that their music ishaunting in the not-so-mesmerising sense. So what is thissupposedly avant-garde circus going to do about it? Roll back theclassic rock a decade or two. They’ve formed a partnership with theApple Corporation and will create a show, opening next year,celebrating the musical legacy of the Beatles. Apparently, Yoko Onothinks this is OK. Cirque du Soleil is a multi-million dollar internationalbusiness, it can buy The Beatles’ oeuvre…
Australian performers, funnybuggers that they are, coin silly names for the shows —Saltimbanco was known as “Salty Bum Crack”,Alegria as “Hairy Legria”. They’re still working onQuidam and suggestions are warmly welcomed. But only one brave soul was willing to speak publicly about themulticultural talent-munching machine that is Cirque du Soleil— Shep Huntly, master of ceremonies of the home-grown,irreverent troupe the Happy Sideshow, which Cirque du Soleil triedto poach. The group resisted. “For me, it really is the McDonald’sof circus,” says Huntly. “They seem to travel the world poaching local talent, and, don’tget me wrong, a lot of people want to be in Cirque du Soleil. Andas much as they have homogenised the world of circus, they havealso spread the world of circus to the masses.
Rex finds living is easy with Linux
The Age – Mar 15, 2005
“The biggest mistake you can make is a rush into a certaintechnology,” he says. “It can be a rush onto Linux or a rush awayfrom Linux; it can be a rush onto Windows or whatever. It can be arush into a home-grown application rather than an off-the-shelfapplication. “I’ve learned from a couple of rather painful experiences thebest thing is to make sure you imagine what needs you will havefive years from now. “If you can’t guess that, then maybe two years. If you can’tguess that, you should not make such a fundamental decision. “You have to be sure you think ahead and clearly understand whatyou are doing and don’t be shy to ask experts, even if it does costsome money.