Month: February 2006
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Profit Vs. Principles
Yet another one of those cases that makes you sit up and take note. Yahoo has been again accused of helping Chinese officials jail an internet activist. Sad indeed. 🙁 I like a line in the Reuters report. Am including it below. “… examples that highlight the friction between profits and principles for Internet companies…
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Bahoooooo!!! 🙁
Today is the worst day, officially that is. The (stupid) IT people have blocked access to external mail sites. 🙁 I mean the block was present before but due to the efficiency of the IT staff it had not been implemented on machines running Windows 2000. But as of today they seem to have hired…
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Good -> Great!!!
Came across this quote on a blogpost today. Liked it awesomely. “Good is the enemy of great. And it is the precise reason why there is so few great in the world.” ~ Jim Collins
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Good Vs. Bad
Check out this Calvin strip. And read this from Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith “Supreme Chancellor: Good is a point of view, Anakin. The Sith and the Jedi are similar in almost every way, including their quest for greater power.” Any ideas???
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Google Vs. Its Soul
This has been bothering me for quite some time now. Google has decided to launch a censored version of its search engine in China due to pressure from the Chinese Government. It makes me wonder about their decision to not provide the US Government with data about search terms. Was it encouraged by factors other…