Bank Nationalization….Been there, done that
Today AIG sounded more like ‘Americans in Grief’ than ‘America’s International Grandiose’. Both WSJ and NYT had front page articles covering the big bad wolf and how it was consuming our hard-earned dollars faster than we can say kaboom. There is a large public debate on whether nationalization of banks and financial institutions is a […]
My favorite wine – Gewürztraminer
If it was any easier to pronouce, I would be just drinking brandy. Gewürztraminer (ɡəˈvÊrtstraˈmi:nÉš) is a sweet, sensous and aromatic wine that has hints of roses, passion fruit and floral essences. I don’t remember exactly how I first tasted Gewurztraminer, but it was definitely by chance; it was one of the scores of wines […]
Why I am rooting for Slumdog Millionaire
I suppose there are scores of rave reviews for Slumdog Millionaire out there; so i figured it wouldnt hurt to do make the count into count+1 (spoken like a true geek). Even though Bollywood is still the most profilic movie churning machine in the world, there are probably only a dozen or so truly unique […]
The only way to save GM
Today I had a chance to skim through the restructuring plans presented by GM and Chrysler to Congress (GM Plan, Chrysler Plan). GM’s situation is much alike Citi’s; both are too big to fail, both have a lot of toxic assets on their books, and both have a far reaching ripple effect on the global […]
What makes us grown-ups
I believe I once read in a fortune cookie that…. “people are as old as they want to believe they are”. I remember that as a child I once wanted to be a doctor, to save lives, to be the hero who rescued the day, the godfather-persona who everyone would owe a favor to. Those […]
Why I will blog more regularly
People blog for three different reasons: a. They want attention and they have interesting lives and thoughts they want others to know about b. They want to make money from their blogs at some point, so they start blogging about one particular topic c. They like to influence others through their opinions and insights, typically […]
7 Lessons from Einstein
We often associate certain names to the virtue of excellence. Tiger Woods to the game of golf, Michael Jordan to the game of basketball and Pablo Picasso to painting. What if you had to name the genius of the 20th century? Without a doubt, Albert Einstein gets the nod. Arguably, the smartest man ever born, […]
Of Nessun Dorma
Although I have heard Pavarotti’s amazing rendering of Nessun Dorma over a hundred times, I have always wondered what the exact lyrics and meaning is. Several words from the aria do give major hints about the deeper meaning – dorma, d’amore, stanza, principessa, silenzio, morir, vincero…… I couldn’t put my finger on the complete act […]
Avoiding flicker in winforms
Winforms applications flicker quite a bit when you have TableLayoutPanels, Panels, etc especially when the forms/controls are resized and/or have background images. The cause for the the flicker is simple – excessive repainting, both at design-time as well as the runtime. The solution – double-buffering; when repainting the graphics on a control, .net uses a […]
The Psychopath Test
Read the question, come up with an answer and then click through for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met a man who she did not know. She thought he was ‘amazing’. She believed him to be her dream […]