Month: December 2006

  • We don’t give a damn!!

    Hugh Macleod, of Gaping Void fame, has put up this “Nobody Cares” manifesto by Dennis Howlett. I agree with all of it, but find the below mentioned points very relevant. * Adding value is the most important thing you have to do – nobody believes you. Clients can read a 1,000 websites and see that…

  • Happy New Year

    Hi, Happy New Year 2007. Have a great new year. May you get everything you want (and what you need) in the new year!! Goyal PS: This was the mail I sent out to most friends and colleagues.

  • Perspective

    Confused points to this quote from Stanley Kubrick on Schindler’s List. “Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn’t it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. ‘Schindler’s List’ was about six hundred people who don’t.” This is from a review of the movie WTC by Roger Ebert. Catastrope…

  • Foot-in-Mouth Awards

    The Wired guys have done a 2006 Foot-in-Mouth Awards. Though the entire list is humorous and right up there, this particular entry, methinks should not have been there. I mean all this guy said was the truth, and nothing but the truth. CEOs in general are people who say twisted things in a more confusing…

  • Sledging from the crowd!!

    From Cricinfo: Message of the day: And just when Graeme Smith thought it couldn’t get any worse. Two South African fans, shirtless and no doubt fuelled with lager, took out a banner soon after lunch. “Smith: Hope you’d scored more with Minki [van der Westhuizen],” it said, a reference to his former girlfriend. So much…